UCOL has two campuses – Wanganui and Palmerston North – and shares students who must be able to work in real-time from either location. “The previous 100Mb pipe was costing us a lot of money and increasing numbers of students moving between the campuses were putting pressure on that pipe,” says Steve. Now, with REANNZ’s 1GB connection, UCOL has 50 times its previous capacity. REANNZ is also part of UCOL’s DR systems. Every 20 minutes, Wanganui and Palmerston North send a full data back-up to each other using different internet service providers (ISPs). “If one site fails, we re-route traffic and back-up through REANNZ,” says Steve. Congestion and performance are not unique to UCOL and the solution to ever-increasing bandwidth is to engage with services such as REANNZ which can provide increasingly sophisticated services REANNZ network has reduced UCOL’s connectivity costs and improved productivity across two campuses. UCOL moved the “heavy hitters” out, they increased bandwidth between the two campuses and then they put in a sophisticated disaster recovery (DR) programme – all through REANNZ.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:33:38 +0000
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