Expand Networks, a provider of WAN optimization solutions for branch office consolidation and virtualization, announced it has been chosen by Euronet Worldwide, a global provider of electronic payment and transaction processing solutions.

The latest association with Euronet India demonstrates Expand Networks’ (News - Alert) continued market dominance in the APAC region and is set to provide Euronet cost-savings of over $100,000, the company said.  

The solution ensures service availability and optimum network performance for Euronet.

Euronet’s core business processes high numbers of electronic financial transactions, so the reliability and speed of network performance is critical to the company. Further, as the company experienced a significant increase in the volume of transactions, it started facing problems with remote data replication and network performance.  

“Even though Telecommunication lines are not cheap, the business was ready to spend money to double the bandwidth in order to overcome the problem with network performance,” Ashish Mehta, director IT & Infrastructure (Asia Pacific & Middle East), said.

The company upgraded the bandwidth, but the problem was not resolved as they experienced data lag between primary and remote sites, Mehta explained. “With the continued growth in transaction numbers, we knew this couldn’t be a long lasting solution. Instead, we looked for a long-term strategic solution and WAN Optimization was the answer.”  

Euronet picked Expand solutions considering “four stand-out benefits.” The most significant, perhaps, is that while most other WAN optimization solutions they tested did not support its AS400-Mimix environment, Expand excelled.

“Expand could reduce traffic by up to 70 percent using its byte level caching, which is fantastic,” Mehta said. “Expand could also help guarantee security with the IP-Sec protocol - a must for a financial organization like us.”

Further, Expand’s unique combination of acceleration and compression techniques was the only solution that demonstrated the ability to resolve their network performance issues, Mehta continued. 

With Expand Networks’ Accelerators capable of producing 65 percent increase in network performance at Euronet, the company will see over $100,000 in cost-savings due to the reduction in expensive telecom services over a period of three year, according to Mehta.

The company is planning to implement this optimization strategy in other countries. “Having experienced the benefits of the Expand solution, the technology will allow us to grow our business in places where high latency networks or costly telecoms lines had previously constrained us,” Mehta added.

“Euronet understood that increasing bandwidth to continuously combat poor network performance is simply not an effective long term strategy,” Adam Davison (News - Alert), VP Sales and Marketing, at Expand, said.

“By looking beyond a ‘quick-fix’ solution and choosing Expand’s Accelerators they are now experiencing optimum network performance, and a real return on investment, with cost savings of over $100,000,” Davison added.

Recently Expand Networks announced it has joined the HP AllianceONE partner program, gaining network specialization partner status, a TMCnet report said.