ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that Banco Nacional de Bolivia (BNB) has successfully improved business performance and achieved significant cost savings with Expand Networks Advanced WAN Optimization technology. Implementing Expand Accelerators across its distributed environment, BNB has brought its employees into virtual proximity of centralized applications and services, successfully enhancing user experience, increasing business productivity and extending returns on network investments.

Operating across 8 locations across the country, BNB has over 37 local offices. With applications and data held centrally, BNB’s 1,300 branch office employees rely heavily upon the WAN for the delivery of these applications. BNB’s business growth and an increase in the economic activities in Bolivia, meant its existing bandwidth provision struggled to cope increasing numbers of complex applications travelling over the WAN.

Roberto Delgadillo Poepsel, national systems manager at BNB explains, “Increasing volumes of data being passed between our branches via such tight bandwidth links seriously impacted productivity levels. Our employees experienced slow performance of centralized applications, such as Intranet and e-mail. We also found the quality of VoIP delivery very poor.”

BNB set up a centralized team to manage WAN traffic in accordance with Quality of Service (QoS) rules, but quickly realized that QoS alone wasn’t sufficient to solve the problem. Delgadillo continues, “We soon saw that this could only be a temporary solution. We needed a more comprehensive optimization approach that would enhance user experience and put a stop to the expenditure being wasted on increasing bandwidth.”

BNB looked to adopt an optimization strategy that provided visibility and control and high network performance. As a financial institution, security was also a key concern for BNB, and one which Expand Networks’ technology could deliver on. Delgadillo explains, “Expand offered the best performance infrastructure for our network taking away the need for continuingly increasing bandwidth investment, whilst its unique ability to guarantee security with the IP-Sec protocol was a key factor. In addition to security, other solutions simply did not offer the necessary compression we required for this project. Expand also offered the fastest RoI. In all, the performance, security and flexibility of the solution, made it a simple choice.”

Following a successful pilot, BNB implemented the Expand Accelerators between its central office and branch offices. The solution delivered a rapid RoI, BNB has saved over $86,000 in the first year. Delgadillo continues, “We are giving users the experience of greater bandwidth, without having to pay for it. The performance speed of network operations is up 80%, and productivity levels are at an all time high. We have saved a huge $86,000 in less than one year. We estimate that these savings will continue to increase as time goes on and expect that a further $287,000 will be saved to be put to better use.”

Adam Davison, corporate VP sales & marketing at Expand Networks, says, “As users and their applications move further apart, business performance can suffer. Our unique integrated technology delivers a virtual proximity experience designed to close this gap through the delivery of virtual bandwidth. BNB is a great example of how our next generation compression and acceleration techniques can take limited WAN links and fully maximize throughputs on the exact same infrastructure.”

See full BNB case study - http://www.expand.com/case-studies/2009/BANCO-DE-BOLIVIA-EN-GBv1.0.0.0.pdf

Jennifer Manning
Cohesive Communications – EMEA
+44-(0)-1291-626200
expand@cohesive.uk.com