Interroll, a leader in providing high-quality core products for internal logistics, has chosen Silver Peak, a leader in building broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs), to transition its WAN to the Internet.

Interroll is working to improve Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online, optimise the centralised access to SAP, centralise the Autodesk Computer Aided Design (CAD) services, and avoid thousands of dollars a month in additional Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) costs, said a statement.

Giuseppe Genovesi, head of corporate IT at Interroll, said: “With a Silver Peak overlay across our WAN, we were able to connect our offices without a lot of work.

“Since the deployment, Silver Peak has made a huge improvement to our business productivity and we are able to better service our customers, providing them with a much faster, leaner and more customised approach. The Internet has opened up many doors for our company, and without Silver Peak that would not have been that easy.”

As a global manufacturing company, Interroll runs an MPLS network connecting 13 production facilities, 18 sales offices, and 1,800 employees across Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe.

The engineers and designers in those locations work closely with customers to design and develop new products. Editing and moving CAD files across the MPLS network was essential to that process.

As Interroll grew, transferring large design files proved increasingly impractical. Genovesi wanted to centralise Interroll’s application services, including AutoCAD, and work on the improvement of centralised SAP access from far places in private, regional data centres. But that would mean to an estimated 5X increase in MPLS bandwidth and a 30 percent increase in costs.

It was not just the economics that made MPLS unsuitable for Interroll, it was also the complexity. The company had embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS), specifically Office 365 incorporating SharePoint Online, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Directing the cloud traffic across the MPLS backbone was impractical, consuming even more MPLS bandwidth and slowing cloud performance. Instead, Genovesi equipped the offices with direct Internet access. Silver Peak is used to prioritise and direct traffic to the Internet or MPLS network.

“The network became too complicated. A simple change could take weeks to implement. We needed something far more dynamic,” said ,” said Genovesi.

“With other vendors, SaaS optimisation is a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Silver Peak lets us determine how our traffic flows so we can, for example, direct our Far East traffic around problematic regions,” he added. - TradeArabia News Service