Expand Networks’ WAN Optimization Enables Business Productivity and Rapid ROI at Baiada Poultry Application Visibility and Control Increases Efficiency of Customer Service and Business Processes at Australian Food Company May 05, 2010 08:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time   SYDNEY--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that Baiada Poultry Pty Limited, a leading Australian provider of poultry products, is using Expand Networks WAN optimization technology to effectively prioritize traffic over the WAN, resulting in substantial improvements in company processes. Baiada initially implemented Expand’s Accelerators to overcome network performance challenges created by sending large numbers of invoices to remote printers each night. By prioritizing and accelerating traffic over the WAN, Baiada has significantly reduced the time it takes to print several hundred invoices. With these invoices being sent out with each delivery truck, efficiency in the printing process has greatly assisted Baiada in getting deliveries out on time. Since implementing Expand, Baiada has achieved 50% increase in network capacity, a 90% increase in speed and performance of network operations and has also improved network response time by 75%. Furthermore, in support of rapid company growth, Baiada has recently purchased additional Expand Accelerators, following the acquisition of Bartter Steggles. With this increased number of Accelerators Baiada has also implemented ExpandView, Expand’s full-featured central management, reporting and alerting system, to more efficiently manage its extended wide area infrastructure. Martin Williams, Infrastructure Services Coordinator at Baiada Poultry, comments; “Expand provides us with visibility and control over our application traffic, allowing us to prioritize certain types of network traffic at certain times, and enabling us to effectively manage web and email traffic and of course the printing jobs. Expand aligns with our business objectives by increasing the efficiency of existing resources and equipment, specifically, the technology allows us to utilize our existing WAN more efficiently, reducing day-to-day expenses involved with upgrading WAN links.”  Steve O’Brien, Vice President of Expand Networks APAC, explains, “The length of time to print invoices was causing productivity and process issues for Baiada, not only was Expand able to solve the company’s printing challenges it has also improved Baiada’s overall WAN performance. In low bandwidth, high latency environments, Expand accelerates any application across any network to deliver a guaranteed and constant experience for the remote user. In addition to substantial improvements in company process through QoS enforcement, the more efficient use of its WAN has reduced the need for regular network upgrades, saving Baiada time and money.”  Baiada currently has a combination of Expand accelerators installed, including the Expand 1800, 4800, 4900 and the 6900 series at sites where a higher level of bandwidth is required. Expand Accelerators use low latency, lossless techniques that work on all applications to consistently deliver average bandwidth increases between 100% and 400%. Expand's Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement also ensures that applications run unimpeded on the WAN. This is not just prioritization, but also includes sophisticated algorithms to combat congestion, mark packets for downstream QoS handling and rate control shaping to make sure data flows get the bandwidth they need. For further information, please visit: http://www.expand.com/baiada Contacts Cohesive Communications Zara May/Mark Waite +44 (0)1291 626200 expand@cohesive.uk.com Permalink: http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100505005932/en/Optimization/WAN/acceleration