| Company X, located in Park
100, had several branch offices located around Indianapolis. Each branch
office collected data that needed to be fed into the main office's
database. Company X did not have a large budget for expensive
communication lines and equipment to connect all the offices. So, it resorted to slow dial-up connections and transferring the data only
once a day. This required having to merge the data every night. This
process was
both time consuming and error prone. IntelliPath was tasked with improving
Company X's network so the amount of time to
synchronize the company's data would be reduced.
IntelliPath set up each office on DSL
through a local provider to provide inexpensive broadband connections to
the Internet. It then built a fault-tolerant Terminal Services server to
host the client application that collected the data and installed it at
Company X's main office.
Using Terminal Services clients,
IntelliPath connected each branch computer to the main office's Terminal
Services server via the DSL connection to the Internet.
This three-tiered architecture allowed
all the company's data to be kept on the database server at the main
office, eliminating the need for synchronization and saving nearly 40 hours
a month in labor. |
