As the third largest armored transportation and cash management company in the United States, AT Systems International can’t afford downtime for its mission-critical network. "Downtime on any leg of our data network was not an option," said Wesley Colvin, CTO for AT Systems. "When we are dealing with other peoples’ money, timely data transfers are mission-critical and failures can result in steep penalties."

But when their former data network provider pulled out of U.S. markets, the company found itself needing to transition to a new network provider for its entire data infrastructure in less than 60 days.

Collaborating closely with the customer’s Agent, W. Lange & Co. Inc., New Edge Networks managed the creation of AT Systems International's new high-speed data network. "New Edge Networks is very innovative in how it approaches network architecture," said Joe Gomez, CTO for W. Lange. "The attention to detail and level of management participation from top to bottom on this project exceeds what we have experienced from other carriers."

New Edge built a custom nationwide Frame Relay network with multiple hosts on the New Edge ATM network. The network uses multi-path and redundant routing to link about 130 branches, money rooms, and bank locations dispersed around the country with the company's Pasadena, CA headquarters and two data processing centers.

By using Frame Relay for this multi-location network, AT Systems was able to retain its existing router infrastructure, which significantly reduced costs. After reconfiguring the legacy carrier hardware and adding AT Systems to the new network, the customer also upgraded 60 percent of the Frame Relay network ports to a higher bandwidth. The entire network was built with primary and redundant PVC-based features to ensure back up for the mission-critical application.

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