In order to enable businesses to develop more engaging Internet experiences for their users, Telenet, Belgium's broadband cable services provider, has upgraded its current ADC solutions with Radware's new ADC-VX. It is the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) hypervisor to consolidate and virtualize its data center for a more efficient infrastructure.
According to a press release, Telenet is the cable services provider in Belgium, offering video, broadband internet and traditional circuit switched and digital (Voice over IP) telephony services to 2.3 million customers. The company also provides mobile telephony service as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The company was seeking opportunity to consolidate its IT infrastructure and adopt a virtualized environment in addition to a solution that included basic load balancing features and application performance monitoring – all for minimal cost.
In addition, they required a solution that would fit into their existing infrastructure and one which would be a viable solution for both their production site – needing load balancing capabilities – as well as their testing environment – needing frequent configuration changes.
Radware's ADC-VX offers companies like Telenet to work on numerous virtual ADC (vADC) instances on one consolidated hardware device. For Telenet, this meant consolidating different older model platforms into a single, newer platform that now supports 28 vADCs, resulting in significant savings for the company on hardware, power and rack space costs as opposed to costly traditional ADC approaches.
Radware's ADC-VX also provides Telenet with: performance predictability through a resource reservation mechanism to always meet all services/application SLAs, complete ADC instance segregation enabling management, network and fault isolation, instant ADC provisioning for maximum business agility and faster time to market, and resource abstraction for simplified operations and operating expense reduction.
Eric Bartholomeus, manager of engineering hosting at Telenet said that, “Radware, with its unique virtualized ADC capabilities, well-priced innovative solutions and an exceptional team proved to be the perfect fit for the company and the company’s management had asked us to "go green" and with the deployment of Radware's ADC-VX units we have seen a drastic improvement in energy consumption and cooling.”