Case Studies

CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT

The Challenge:

For more than 200 years, the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has provided its clients with progressive strategies and solutions to complex legal and business issues. With offices in New York City, Washington D.C., Charlotte and London, Cadwalader takes pride in the expertise of its attorneys, the professionalism of its support staff, and the efficacy of the tools of its trade. When Cadwalader outgrew offices in downtown Manhattan, it found a second building across the street but needed a cost-effective, and highly secure, way to connect the spaces.

LightPointe Solution:

On the advice of a consulting firm, Asterisk Enterprises, Inc., Cadwalader selected LightPointe to satisfy its connectivity issues, without sacrificing security. LightPointe's Flight T Optical Wireless family provides protected point-to-point connections secure enough to satisfy even people who get paid to be highly suspicious.

LightPointe offers quick and affordable connectivity to metropolitan fiber-optic networks. LightPointe's proprietary, patent-pending technologies are protocol-independent and have been tested in diverse climate conditions in rooftop configurations and behind glass windows. Based on the latest in free-space optics (FSO) technology, its optical wireless products are now at work in more than 60 countries, in 2,000-plus installations.

Sound Byte:

"It is a flawless application. It worked from day one and we have had no problems with it. We have not had this degree of success with traditional phone lines between any of our offices."
— Greta Ostrovitz, IT Director at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

"LightPointe solutions give our customers speedy point-to-point connections. Best of all, LightPointe solves my customers' security problems. Given the communications environments they can choose - T1, T3, OC3 - a beam of light is the most secure. You can't intercept a beam of light."
— Larry Angstadt, Asterisk