"We rolled out 1200 Chromebooks to classrooms and CACHEBOX means that we haven't needed to increase our bandwidth."
Rodney Leer, Brenham Independent School District, USA "ApplianSys is the only vendor that takes the time to look at our appliances for us, and it really goes a long way."
Mike Caruso, Orland Park Consolidated High School District 230, USA "Our bandwidth problems have been practically eliminated. Monitoring & customization is a snap with the web interface."
Desert Academy, Santa Fe, USA "We're seeing great bandwidth savings, especially on software updates, which has made a big difference to our overall internet performance!"
Obinna Ndubueze, Technical Director, Ocean Marine Security, Nigeria "The DNSBOXes basically sit there and do their job as expected, we have very little interaction with them"
Andy Brennan, Technical Operations Team Leader, The Guinness Partnership, UK

Tagtel double play for triple play

March 18, 2011
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ApplianSys today announced that Tagtel Communications has purchased a DNSBOX300 master and DNSBOX100 slaves for managing its DNS, together with multiple CACHEBOX230 units to improve internet access and performance.

Tagtel Communications is a Class ‘A’ Internet Access Provider in Zimbabwe, with a mandate to provide triple play services (Data, Voice and Video) to its customers. As a startup business, the shareholders wanted tried and tested DNS devices for their DNS and IP Management services as well as web caches to reduce bandwidth use by its customers.

“Despite tenders from other vendors, DNSBOX was chosen ahead of competition for its quick ease of deployment and a user-friendly interface for DNS management” said Chris Masikati, CEO of Solutions First, the ApplianSys partner in Zimbabwe. “It was great that ApplianSys could also provide the ideal web caching solution that Tagtel were also looking for. They wanted to be sure that as the number of users grew, there was not an immediate demand for more expensive bandwidth.

“As Tagtel had chosen Cisco equipment running WCCP, it was very easy to deploy the CACHEBOX230 units in a cluster. This provides high availability and resilience from day one, as well as a scalable upgrade path for the future.”

Tagtel Communications are part of the Pecus Enterprises group based in Zimbabwe.
Solution First offers Server and Network consolidation and virtualization, Cloud and GRID Computing, Disaster Recovery, Integrated Business Information Solution (IBIS) and delivers services around Programme, Project Management along ITIL and Prince2 PM standards, as well as IT consultancy.