Tales from the front: Army speeds up video file transfer

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN'S ISP NEWS REPORT
07/13/05
Today's focus: Tales from the front: Army speeds up video file
transfer

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* Army boosts file transfer speed using WAN optimization
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Today's focus: Tales from the front: Army speeds up video file
transfer

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Are you looking for a way to speed up the transfer of large
files over your IP network? Consider the success that the U.S.
Army Broadcast Service is having with WAN optimization
appliances from start-up Orbital Data.

The Army Broadcast Service produces television broadcasts that
are distributed via satellite to 2.6 million members of the U.S.
Armed Forces. The service has broadcast stations in Virginia,
California, Italy, Germany, Korea and Honduras.

The Army Broadcast Service sends video files - which range from
10M bytes to 1.5G bytes in size - from broadcast stations in
Europe and Asia to its stateside facilities via a leased-line
WAN. These files were taking 5 or more hours to get from Europe
or Asia to the U.S. prior to the installment of Orbital Data
devices.

"The first time we tried to send a news cast from Korea, the
system told us it would take 18 hours. We were able to get
additional bandwidth secured from our location to a network
node, and we were able to reduce that time to 5.5 hours. But
even that wasn't acceptable," says Mark Vagnerini, the director
of operations for the Army Broadcast Service. With Orbital, "we
can push a 1.3G-byte or 1.4G-byte file from Europe or Korea
anywhere in the world in 38 to 45 minutes."

About 18 months ago, the Army Broadcast Service was looking for
a way to accelerate the delivery of its large video files. The
group's IT director came across Orbital Data, which sells
appliances for optimizing WAN bandwidth and accelerating key
applications.

Now the Army Broadcast Service has 10 Orbital Data 5500s
installed, with nine more units planned for installation between
now and 2007. The Army Broadcast Service is deploying the units
in each of its primary broadcast stations as well as affiliated
stations in Europe and Asia. The total cost for the Orbital Data
devices is approximately $125,000.

"For us, the biggest return is that we're able to get the
product back [to the states] faster," Vagnerini says. "In the
broadcast world, the biggest thing is time. When we were mailing
tapes back, we lost any type of timeliness. That's our primary
concern."

Vagnerini says the Army Broadcast Service also is benefiting
from improved utilization of its network bandwidth. "Our pipes
carry more than FTP traffic [for video files]," he says. "We
carry e-mail traffic. We carry radio broadcasts. At a minimum,
we had to accelerate the FTP traffic. But during the
two-and-a-half months that Orbital has been working with us, we
are able to accelerate all traffic."

Vagnerini says the Orbital Data devices have performed well so
far. "A 30-second spot is about 22M bytes and that used to take
us anywhere from 12 to 13 minutes to transfer unaccelerated. Now
a 30-second spot is taking 2.5 minutes,'' he says.

The only problem that the Army Broadcast Service has had is that
a couple devices were damaged during shipment. "They're easy to
use," Vagnerini says. "They have a complete Internet monitoring
system so we can troubleshoot them remotely."

Vagnerini says that any network manager trying to move or share
large data files over a WAN should consider adding appliances
like those from Orbital Data. "If you're moving large data files
or accessing large databases and if you want to try to maximize
your bandwidth utilization, you're going to want to use
something like this," he says.

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