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Salt Lake City, Dec. 8, 2008 - Cymphonix has announced that Corpus Christi Public Libraries, the supporting institution for five Texas Gulf Coast libraries, has installed an award-winning Cymphonix Network Composer appliance to prioritize and manage network traffic. The network is primarily used by the library staff to access an integrated library system (ILS) in order to acquire new resources, and catalog, circulate, track and shelve materials. The network additionally is relied upon to provide the public with access to research materials and popular websites like MySpace and YouTube .
"During the busiest hours of the day, our network was operating at less than dial-up speeds. Since our bandwidth was already maxed out, and we were adding another branch, we needed to act quickly in implementing a long-term solution," said Alex Hatley, technical specialist for Corpus Christi Public Libraries.
"Through research, I found that other solutions required users to purchase multiple components - which ultimately would have cost more in the long run - in order to achieve the same results that Cymphonix could provide in a single solution."
Corpus Christi Public Libraries quickly integrated a Cymphonix Network Composer DC30 into its network and immediately began to monitor traffic and establish content policies. Since the ILS is critical to managing the Libraries' business, Cymphonix's advanced controls were used to govern shaping rules and give ILS use bandwidth priority - and staff immediately saw a marked difference in performance.
"As our bandwidth usage became controlled, the spikes in consumption were far less severe than they had been before. Web pages are actually loading during the afternoon, a peak time at the Libraries!" said Hatley.
By giving administrators the ability to prioritize bandwidth consumption, Cymphonix has allowed Corpus Christi Public Libraries to optimize its Internet connection so that public browsing does not negatively impact the business-necessary ILS. Cymphonix also automated the libraries' Internet policies, and ensured that the productivity of administrators, employees and visitors is never affected by lagging network speeds.
For further details on how Cymphonix has kept mission-critical applications online for organizations like the Corpus Christi Public Libraries, view case studies at http://www.cymphonix.com/Solutions.html .
About Cymphonix
Cymphonix Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, uses award-winning patent-pending technology to reveal, optimize and automate Internet security. With deep-packet scanning technology, Cymphonix solutions address the issues created by evolving content - including web applications and bandwidth-intensive websites. Cymphonix products seamlessly integrate network protection, application performance, and traffic visibility into a single, easily managed solution. Leading the Cymphonix product line is Network Composer, a smart gateway appliance that helps organizations understand at a glance who is abusing network resources and with what applications - enabling problems to be corrected instantly through a clear, easy-to-manage interface. More information about Cymphonix can be found at www.cymphonix.com .
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