Development Consulting Firm Atwell-Hicks Selects Peribit For High-Performance WAN Application Delivery

Santa Clara, Calif. – November 30, 2004 - Peribit Networks, the leader in application delivery over the WAN, today announced that Atwell-Hicks, an award-winning development consulting firm, has dramatically improved inter-office collaboration and employee productivity by deploying Peribit Sequence Reducer products. The Peribit solution has dramatically improved the performance of key WAN-based applications and will enable the roll out of Voice over IP (VoIP) without the need for expensive and time-consuming network upgrades.

Atwell-Hicks offers civil engineering, surveying, land planning and environmental services for regional and national private land developers with more than 250 employees in six locations throughout Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. To increase productivity and operational efficiency, the company sought to significantly improve the performance of strategic applications which include AutoCAD®, Exchange 2003, data backup and replication, and an Intranet site over its existing wide area network infrastructure.

Atwell-Hicks depends on extensive collaboration between its branch offices. However, with locations connected via point-to-point T1s, bandwidth consumption became a challenge as the company’s dependency on applications grew. With large AutoCAD files on servers at each location, bandwidth limitations were affecting employees’ ability to share files and negatively impacted project completion timeframes. Atwell-Hicks evaluated several options, including the purchase of more T1s. To avoid this costly and recurring expense, Peribit Network’ Sequence Reducer products were deployed to dramatically improve application performance across the existing network.

“With Peribit, our employees are now much more productive,” explains Richard Schue, IT Manager with Atwell-Hicks. “Today, we can open AutoCAD files from remote offices more quickly and backup our data to the next closest office without experiencing degradation in performance due to WAN constraints.”

Atwell-Hicks has deployed Peribit SR-50 Sequence Reducer devices that instantly tripled capacity on its existing private line network. This has dramatically accelerated AutoCAD and Exchange 2003 application performance. The Peribit solution will play an important role in the rollout of VoIP by ensuring that it receives proper prioritization and bandwidth allocations over the WAN. “VoIP and AutoCAD have different performance, bandwidth and delay characteristics,” explains Schue. “Both are equally important to increasing business productivity and the PeriSphere architecture integrates the Quality of Service, compression and latency reduction technologies needed to ensure the demands of all applications are met.”

To optimize its network performance, Atwell-Hicks is utilizing Peribit products in conjunction with Extreme Networks Alpine 3808 and 3804 network convergence switches. “Extreme has always gone the extra mile to ensure the highest level of service to us,” notes Schue. “When we installed the Peribit solution, they worked with us to ensure the seamless integration with our switch’s collapsed backbone architecture. With the combined solutions of Peribit and Extreme, Atwell-Hicks has designed a scalable and flexible network that will support its growing organization while meeting its application performance demands.

“Atwell-Hicks is representative of the growing number of civil engineering and architectural organizations that rely upon the optimal performance of CAD applications running across a distributed network,” says Mike Banic, vice president of corporate marketing with Peribit Networks. “Once again, Peribit was selected because we improved the performance of the full range of applications to increase productivity and deliver hard cost savings.”

About Peribit Networks

Peribit improves customer business efficiencies by resolving the technical limitations of WANs, increasing available bandwidth, and accelerating applications. Peribit’s PeriSphere architecture is the industry’s only integrated WAN optimization framework that enables application rollout and webification, data center consolidation, and improves disaster recovery/backup and regulatory compliance for enterprise IT organizations. Peribit's Sequence Reducer and Sequence Mirror platforms combined with Peribit's SRS Software System and PeriScope CMS Central Management System provide significant, measurable return on investment within months of deployment. A privately held company, Peribit is funded by top-tier investors Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, and Mayfield. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Peribit has operations throughout North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.peribit.com.

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