ECESSA'S WAN LINK CONTOLLER ACHIEVES ROI WITHIN 4 MONTHS.

Ecessa (formerly Astrocom), Plymouth, MN, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), announced that SMEs can now use its PowerLink WAN link aggregation products with low-cost DSL and/or cable links to increase bandwidth capacity by more than 350% with a significant improvement in network performance at the same or lower cost as they pay for a T1 line. Alternatively, SMEs can use Ecessa's affordable WAN link aggregation products to maintain existing capacity at a significantly lower cost, which can yield a complete return on investment within four months.

SMEs currently rely on Ecessa for WAN link aggregation that provides redundant link access and can provide 100% Internet up time at an affordable price. Additionally, customers are now finding that aggregating multiple, diverse Internet links from one or more ISPs can reduce the need to purchase multiple expensive high-speed links. This enables increased bandwidth by using cost-effective links without compromising up time. PowerLink provides the flexibility to use any type of network connection such as satellite, cable, DSL, wireless, etc. Additionally, WAN link aggregation with load balancing can make under-utilized WAN links highly optimized, bringing added efficiencies to a WAN network infrastructure.

Tompkins-Seneca Tioga BOCES, a cooperative educational services company serving nine school districts, is using Ecessa's PowerLink aggregation capabilities to increase from 2Mbps of bandwidth costing $3,200 per year, to 9 Mbps of bandwidth, while keeping bandwidth costs at less than $3,000 per year. "In addition to dramatically lowering our bandwidth costs, after deploying PowerLink, users experienced a noticeable network performance improvement," said Dan Parker, Network Specialist at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES. "Enhanced performance over the Internet was a critical goal for us. After we deployed the PowerLink device, we noticed a significant improvement in network performance. It turned out to be 100% better than we thought it was going to be."

"An affordable link aggregation solution is a relatively simple ROI decision," said Jason Breyer, vice president of Sales for Ecessa. "By installing a PowerLink WAN link controller, SMEs can replace a T1 line with two DSL lines, and save $7,205 per year in T1-associated costs even after fully accounting for the cost of the PowerLink. These savings for businesses translates to 60% overall savings for the first year and 85% savings for each year thereafter."

PowerLink's bandwidth cost savings are in addition to any savings associated with eliminating downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications. An 8-hour network outage at peak business hours could be detrimental to a business, especially an SME. Accordingly, many organizations are quickly recognizing that redundant link access at a reasonable price is a requirement.

For additional ROI examples download Ecessa's ROI paper.

About Ecessa

Ecessa (formerly Astrocom) is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs.

At one-third the cost of competing products, Ecessa's PowerLink and ShieldLink deliver industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications.

Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.

Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

For more information, visit http://www.ecessa.com or or call us at 800/669-6242. or 407/767.0452, ext. 229.

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