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WAN Networking in the Retail Sector
Examining new technologies to drive efficiencies
Brandon Rochat – Sales Director, Expand Africa
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Expand Networks Corporate :
Serving Customers Worldwide Global Market Leadership
Founded in 1998 – An Intel capital (10b$),and DFJ ventures subsidiary (6 B$)
Headquarter : Roseland (USA)
Indirect Sales (over 500 channels)
65,000+ units installed in 100+ countries
5,500 customers worldwide
Industry’s largest deployments:
Amfam: - 4,200+ branches
A Leader in Forrester’s Wave 2010
Aberdeen - “Most Complete Offering”
Best of Interop winner 2009
Pioneer in WAN Optimization
Patented byte-level caching methods
Acquired DiskSites (wafs) & NetPriva (qos)
First Virtual Accellerator to market (Vacc)
Introducing the HIVE technology for the
Mobile Accelerator (Macc)
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Industry Award Winners 2010 & 2011
Expand Networks and SeaMobile win prestigious Global
Telecoms Innovation Award 2010 for Telco Service Delivery
at global relief agency, Tearfund
Expand Networks is Networking Vendor of the Year at
Microscope Awards for Channel Excellence for the 2nd
consecutive year
Vendor and Telco collaboration recognized by global
telecoms business for Managed WAN Optimization Service
at Retail Giant SPAR Group
Mahindra Finance, the leading Indian finance company
awarded the prize for Data Centre Infrastructure for its
implementation of Expand Networks’ advanced WAN
Optimization
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5500 customers…65000 units installed
Server Based
Computing
Branch Office
Consolidation
Satellite
Communications
Generic WAN
Optimization
Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure
Largest Deployments in key IT Initiatives
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Over 150 customers in South Africa
FINANCE RETAIL GOVERNMENT OTHERS MANUFACTURING
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Consolidation, Centralization & Virtualization
– Complete desktop virtualization (virtual desktop infrastructure)
– Server based computing (application centralization)
– Webified applications
– Branch office server replacement through virtualization
Bandwidth cost, availability, throughput & latency challenges
– Satellite availability and cost
– International links
– Remote, roaming & isolated users
– Meshed networks (MPLS), any to any traffic, Monitoring and Control
The distance between the user and the application is growing
WAN infrastructure & cost directly impacts the ROI-TCO of other IT projects
Retail market IT observations
The way retail use WAN infrastructures is changing!
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Enable & control business critical applications globally
Save costs on bandwidth upgrades for application delivery
Monitor & control your VOIP deployment
Accelerate, optimize & control application centralization over the WAN
Optimize high latency, low capacity links to gain efficient response times
We accelerate ANY application
Accelerate back-ups, replication & disaster recovery over the WAN
Ensure greedy applications (Printing) don’t stop business critical applications
performing
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Expand integrates with ANY infrastructure
MPLS
SAT
ADSL
Diginet
3G
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Expand offers many key benefits and features
A Single Solution
– Optimization, acceleration, caching, monitoring,
layer 7 auto discovery, visibility & control (QoS),
IPsec tunnels & WAFS
Traffic Optimization
– Accelerates TCP, UDP and
other IP Traffic
– Enterprise, interactive and
real-time
Single Centralized Management Platform
– Manages Physical, Virtual and Client offerings.
– Global reporting & trend analysis
Complete transparency
- Firewall, Router, Server & RDP Proxy, retain all existing Visibility & QoS
Compliant with networking protocols
– HSRP, VRRP, WCCP, OSPF, RIP, SNMP
Physical & / or Virtual Accelerators
– Supports VMWare tools
i.e. Vmotion, HA
Complete Microsoft Integration
– Domain/SMB Signing support
– Active Directory, DFS
– Transparently retains Client/Server True Branch Office Server Replacement
– Printing & DHCP
– Re-purpose server into a Virtual Accelerator
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Expand has established partnerships
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Expand retailers in South Africa
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Case Study – Pick n Pay
Expand was implemented to improve the latency for business critical
applications like SAP in stores. Since implementation, not only was SAP
improved but all in-store applications. Positive feedback was received from
SAP users and store managers after migration to Expand hardware
Marco Visser, Network Manager Information Services
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” Solution Highlights
• Expand installed on all major backbone links as well as to 40 top stores
• Server and POS software updates including file transfers has vastly improved
over the core network right up to store level.
• User experience at till level regarding financial transaction turnaround was
impressive.
• Solution has been deployed for 1.5 years
• In general, the product has improved our throughput on average by 400%
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Case Study - SPAR
Expand in conjunction with Telkom have delivered a superb solution in a
very short space of time for WAN Optimization which we would
recommend to businesses with a large number of sites on low bandwidth
networks such as satellite
Greg Hay, SPAR Group Networks Services Manager
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” Solution Highlights
• Expand all round solution able to resolve application delays to the stores
• 900 stores deployed and functioning within 5 months and during the Soccer
World Cup
• Web based applications were dramatically improved with Expands web
caching engine
• Able to remove 3 Megs of satellite bandwidth and still achieve faster
throughputs, creating a very attractive ROI
• Successful anti virus updates to store PC’s has increased dramatically
