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UNICCO Service Company Deploys Fluke Networks' Visual UpTime Select To Support MPLS Rollout
Solution Provides In-Depth Visibility Into Network and Application Performance Across UNICCO's Infrastructure
EVERETT, Washington (Mar. 06, 2006) — Fluke Networks today announced that UNICCO Service Company has deployed its Visual UpTime® Select™ solution in support of its migration to an MPLS network. The organization is utilizing Visual UpTime Select to obtain granular insight into the traffic on its network, enabling the organization to maximize network and application uptime and availability. UNICCO is one of North America's largest integrated facilities services companies with more than 18,000 employees and $700 million in annualized revenues.
Visual UpTime Select provides in-depth, real-time and historical information that enables organizations to intelligently manage application and network performance and availability across the entire enterprise. For organizations migrating to an MPLS-based network, such as UNICCO, Visual UpTime Select provides end-to-end Service Level Agreement (SLA) verification with an up-to-the-minute view of key parameters including availability, delay and throughput. Enterprises can monitor SLA performance by individual Class of Service settings to ensure that key applications such as VoIP are getting the proper bandwidth required for optimal performance.
"Visual UpTime Select provides granular visibility into the utilization of our network segments, down to the individual user and application level, so we know what traffic is on the network and where it came from," said William Jenkins, Senior Director of Information Technology at UNICCO. "Some of our applications are hosted by application service providers, and when these services do not perform well, our vendors sometimes blame the network. Visual UpTime Select will enable us to eliminate this finger pointing from our providers by identifying the true cause of performance problems. And as we move to an MPLS network, Visual UpTime Select is helping us monitor Class of Service settings at each site to make sure our network is properly configured and that we are receiving the requisite bandwidth."
UNICCO also uses Visual UpTime Select for planning purposes. With real-time and historical visibility into resource utilization, UNICCO can intelligently plan capacity. With the ability to identify rogue or recreational application usage, the organization can avoid having to unnecessarily invest in additional bandwidth when business needs do not require these expenditures.
"As enterprises migrate to MPLS, Visual UpTime Select can help them make this transition a smooth one by identifying the applications on the network and determining whether they are prioritized properly at each site," said Jeff Lime, President of Fluke Networks' Visual Networks division and Sr. Vice President for Fluke Networks — Enterprise & Datacom Marketing. "And once an MPLS network is deployed, Visual UpTime Select provides the ongoing visibility into Quality of Service for each business-critical application at each site to make sure the network is performing properly."
UNICCO Service Company, based in Newton, Mass., is one of North America's largest integrated facilities services companies with more than 18,000 employees and $700 million in annualized revenues. The privately-held company has over 55 years of facilities outsourcing experience and maintains an industry-leading 95% customer retention rate. UNICCO offers maintenance, operations, cleaning, lighting and administrative/office services for industrial, corporate and multi-tenant office, education, retail, government and public venue facilities. For further information, call 888-751-9100 or visit http://www.unicco.com.
Fluke Networks provides innovative solutions for the testing, monitoring and analysis of enterprise and telecommunications networks and the installation and certification of the fiber and copper forming the foundation for those networks. The company's comprehensive line of Network SuperVision™ Solutions provide network installers, owners, and maintainers with superior vision, combining speed, accuracy and ease of use to optimize network performance. In 2006, Fluke Networks acquired application and network performance management provider Visual Networks, Inc. and its flagship Visual UpTime Select product line. Headquartered in Everett, Washington, the company distributes its products in more than 50 countries. More information can be found by visiting Fluke Networks' Web site at www.flukenetworks.com or by calling (800) 283-5853.
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