Case Studies

EAST WEST MORTGAGE

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Challenge:

East West's progressive customer outreach practices and its continuous growth required an additional 13,000-square feet of office space, which the company recently acquired across a busy interstate from its headquarters. With around-the-clock network availability needed for its fast-growing Internet business as well as enterprise Voice over IP (VoIP) services, the company placed a high priority on identifying a reliable, high-speed method for linking the two facilities.

LightPointe Solution:

LightPointe's FlightLite 100 enabled East West to extend its corporate network economically as well as create redundancy through the purchase of both primary and secondary Optical Wireless links. The company was able to aggregate the two pairs of the FlightLite product (four link heads) into a redundant fail-over solution with 100 Mbps bandwidth for the primary link and 100 Mbps for the backup link. As a result, East West can ensure 99.999% - or "five nines" uptime - for its business-critical applications, De Clue said. According to Rick Mitrovich, president of JENRIC, LightPointe's FlightLite products provide an optimum solution for growing companies such as East West. "East West Mortgage's FlightLite deployment reinforces a rising trend in enterprise connectivity. More and more organizations are turning to Optical Wireless as a more cost-effective and convenient alternative to carrier-based, leased access options such as T1 and fiber optic cable," he said. "With increasing demand for high-speed data, voice and video transport, Optical Wireless continues to gain significant traction as the optimal building-to-building connectivity solution in urban settings around the world."

Sound Byte:

"All in all, there was no better choice for our needs than LightPointe. LightPointe has proven to be a good business partner by going out of its way to meet our time, cost and performance requirements. This has enabled us during the transition of business units to the new building to continue to serve our customers according to our highest standards. Needless to say, we have been very impressed."
— Doug Bui, CEO, East West Mortgage