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REHAU, World-Leading Manufacturer Transforms Global IT Service Provision With Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Cisco Technology to Consolidate Business Applications for Branch Offices Worldwide and Reduce Costs
| Source: Cisco
ERLANGEN, GERMANY--(Marketwire - January 22, 2008) - REHAU, one of the world's leading
polymer-based product manufacturers, is using Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO )
application networking technology to help increase global collaboration and
transform the provision of global information technology (IT) services.
REHAU expects to cut IT costs with a Cisco Wide Area Application Services
(WAAS) solution. REHAU also expects the Cisco solution to improve access
to and use of global collaboration tools, many based on Microsoft
Sharepoint and IBM Lotus Notes databases, by improving wide-area network
(WAN) performance by 50 percent and reducing the time to download files
from a minute to just three seconds.
REHAU is deploying Cisco WAAS across several administration, sales and
manufacturing locations around the world. It is being used to bring
virtually all of the company's business applications into the company's
data centre in the town of Rehau in Germany. The company expects Cisco
WAAS to reduce its server hardware footprint by half and help cut time to
market for delivering new IT services to the business from months to a
week. Cisco WAAS has already been deployed to six locations worldwide,
such as Riga in Latvia. Branch offices managers have saved an hour per day
because they no longer need to manage server resources and Lotus Notes
application managers will no longer need to worry about managing Lotus
Notes Servers across several time zones.
Ralf Kosczor, IT team leader at REHAU, said, "We expect Cisco WAAS to
deliver considerable business benefits to REHAU from reducing IT costs and
time spent on IT management and maintenance, to improving the way we use
global collaboration tools, like Microsoft Sharepoint and IBM Lotus Notes ,
to improve services to customers. With Cisco we are also seeing a
perception shift within REHAU's IT department from one that used to talk
about systems, machines and boxes. Now, it's all about services. We are
offering a service and acting as a service centre for the whole group and
the nearer we can get to the goal of delivering services and not boxes the
better."
REHAU is deploying a Cisco Data Center Network solution across several
worldwide locations using Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and
Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) Appliances. The Cisco Data Center
Network solution also comprises a Cisco WAN and Cisco local-area networks.
"Global businesses like REHAU are taking full advantage of Cisco Wide Area
Application Services (WAAS) to deliver benefits that help enable them to
improve customer services and make internal operations more productive,"
said Uwe Peter, director, Unified Communications and Data Center, Cisco
Germany. "Cisco WAAS delivers centralised applications with LAN-like speed
to remote users, while preserving visibility and branch security. It helps
to consolidate costly branch office servers, storage and backup
infrastructure into data centers, while optimising WAN bandwidth usage.
In addition, those businesses can maximise regulatory compliance and data
protection through consolidation of branch storage, as well as acceleration
of branch backup applications."
About Rehau AG
REHAU, a world leader in developing and manufacturing polymer-based
products, was founded in 1948 in the Bavarian town of Rehau in Germany, the
company's main administrative site. Its products were used in the
manufacture of the original VW Beetle car and have since been used in other
projects such as the latest Audi Q7 Sports Utility Vehicle; construction of
stadiums used in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany; and in several
regenerative energy innovations. REHAU has more than 15,000 employees
around the globe -- 12,000 of whom are in Europe -- in 170 manufacturing,
sales and administrative locations.
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