Greenbrier Companies and Hydrite Chemical Co. separately went looking for an answer to this common problem and found , a vendor that sells appliances that can amalgamate the capacity of MPLS and broadband links and share the capacity as necessary.
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Steve Eaton, senior network engineer at Greenbrier, says he is using Talari's Mercury appliances to increase reliability and add bandwidth.
Greenbrier is a $1.8 billion supplier of transportation equipment and services to the railroad industry. It makes different types of railroad cars (from tank cars to boxcars, flatbeds, etc.), and has a number of related business, including a rail car repair/maintenance business, and businesses for parts, hydraulics and wheels. It even has a railroad car leasing business.
The company, which employs about 5,000 people, has 45 sites on its MPLS backbone that is used to support a centralized system and different types of data traffic -- email, access to centralized databases and other back office .