The Internet has provided a number of benefits to both businesses and governments as it provides the ability to move information to a number of different locations very quickly. It also allows organizations to drive transparency, a key demand among government entities. In an effort to be more transparent, federal agencies are implementing initiatives to move more information to the Internet. This move will also help to drive collaboration between federal government, local government and citizens. One agency in particular recently required an optimization of their existing network and a network upgrade to support the additional traffic to its site as a result of moving more information and supporting collaboration.

This particular agency operates multiple facilities and data centers stretching between 78 cities and 24 states, making it necessary to find a way to consolidate their network to find management and cost efficiencies. At the same time, this agency also needed to increase capacity on the network to support new applications. Read More

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