Feb, 2002 : Yipes Supplies Faster Network for Caspian Group
📅 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of Ethernet services, announced yesterday that its gigabit optical networks are now providing a faster Internet service to San Francisco-based Caspian Group, Inc. (caspiangroup.com) while undercutting the cost of legacy T-1 solutions.
Caspian Group provides IT management services and applications developmentto clients in the healthcare industry. One of its biggest customers is DeltaDental Plan of California, for which Caspian Group manages LAN and WANnetworks, desktop computers and servers, storage networks and development ofnew business software applications for non-mainframe platforms.
Caspian Group uses the Internet to support client sites, handle remoteterminal sessions, communicate with traveling executives and consultantsthrough VPNs and test software applications.
"When we outgrew our T-1 line with a national ISP, we looked for a newservice provider to provide higher bandwidth, lower prices and above all,better customer service," said Brad Morrison, CTO and co-founder of CaspianGroup. "After looking closely at all the major carriers serving the BayArea, we chose Yipes."
"Yipes' end-to-end Ethernet service is so much easier to manager and toscale incrementally," Morrison continued. "If I need more bandwidth for aspecific event, I can get it in seconds, not months. We can even getguaranteed bandwidth with quality of service as we move to implementvoice-over-IP applications."
As the IT services firm expands its software development business, timeswill arise when it needs to upload hundreds of megabytes of code over theInternet into customer servers in a single evening. "That's the sort ofapplication we can handle with Yipes, but couldn't with standardfixed-bandwidth services," he said.
Morrison determined that the total cost of ownership for Yipes' fullymanaged service is much than for legacy T-1 services. Yipes provides CaspianGroup with 5 Megabits per second of bandwidth for about the same price othercarriers charge for 3 Mbps (two T-1 lines), he said. To connect to Yipes, heplugged an Ethernet card into his Cisco router at a cost of a few hundreddollars. To support several T-1 lines would have required purchasing andinstalling CSU/DSUs, an inverse multiplexer and a new router at a cost of asmuch as $50,000.
Caspian Group provides IT management services and applications developmentto clients in the healthcare industry. One of its biggest customers is DeltaDental Plan of California, for which Caspian Group manages LAN and WANnetworks, desktop computers and servers, storage networks and development ofnew business software applications for non-mainframe platforms.
Caspian Group uses the Internet to support client sites, handle remoteterminal sessions, communicate with traveling executives and consultantsthrough VPNs and test software applications.
"When we outgrew our T-1 line with a national ISP, we looked for a newservice provider to provide higher bandwidth, lower prices and above all,better customer service," said Brad Morrison, CTO and co-founder of CaspianGroup. "After looking closely at all the major carriers serving the BayArea, we chose Yipes."
"Yipes' end-to-end Ethernet service is so much easier to manager and toscale incrementally," Morrison continued. "If I need more bandwidth for aspecific event, I can get it in seconds, not months. We can even getguaranteed bandwidth with quality of service as we move to implementvoice-over-IP applications."
As the IT services firm expands its software development business, timeswill arise when it needs to upload hundreds of megabytes of code over theInternet into customer servers in a single evening. "That's the sort ofapplication we can handle with Yipes, but couldn't with standardfixed-bandwidth services," he said.
Morrison determined that the total cost of ownership for Yipes' fullymanaged service is much than for legacy T-1 services. Yipes provides CaspianGroup with 5 Megabits per second of bandwidth for about the same price othercarriers charge for 3 Mbps (two T-1 lines), he said. To connect to Yipes, heplugged an Ethernet card into his Cisco router at a cost of a few hundreddollars. To support several T-1 lines would have required purchasing andinstalling CSU/DSUs, an inverse multiplexer and a new router at a cost of asmuch as $50,000.
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