Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR), the leader in intelligent Application Switching, ensuring end-to-end control, performance and integrity of networked applications announced today that that Continental Airlines has implemented Radware's LinkProof to maximize revenue from online ticket sales and dramatically decrease transaction costs by optimizing the flow of data across their world-wide network.
LinkProof is specifically designed for the unique requirements of enterprise networks that employ multiple ISP links from diverse carriers. It is the most widely sold product on the market that provides a multi-link application switching solution, resulting in increased bandwidth and high Internet availability. In addition to optimizing internal network resources, LinkProof Internet link Application Switch has the unique ability to dynamically learn and remember which paths across the Internet provide the fastest possible route back to end-users, ensuring the fastest possible content delivery to and from clients, and guaranteeing superior service and customer satisfaction.
Building upon the success their existing global IT infrastructure, Continental Airlines made a strategic decision to bring operation and control of its outsourced online booking service in-house in order to decrease cost, increase control, and maximize customer satisfaction. Like many enterprises, access to the Internet via diverse and redundant Internet Service Providers was of paramount importance in order to maintain their required Quality of Service (QoS). LinkProof was specifically incorporated into their multi-homed network in order to guarantee the attainment of QoS targets for availability, speed of response and overall cost reduction.
Continental has used several other Radware products, including the Web Server Director Pro (WSD-Pro), which was implemented to maintain a fault-tolerant environment for its server farms and to keep the company's 15 Web sites fully operational 24x7. The latest addition of LinkProof to the WSD-Pro Application Switches ensures that Continental's network and web sites are completely optimized at all times and that full command and control can now be maintained internally.
"The installation of LinkProof has not only given Continental an immediate return on its investment, but has allowed Continental to have complete control of our network, no longer reliant on any outside agent," said Andre Gold, Technical Director at Continental Airlines. "Our clients also benefit from the increased efficiency and responsiveness as a result of implementing Radware's Application Switching solutions. The end users' positive experience with our site ensures their continued usage of Continental."
"LinkProof enables a quick and easy implementation of a network design that maximizes performance while protecting investments in the network," said Bill Grenko, Director of Sales Central Region at Radware. "Another added benefit that results from Continental's implementation of a LinkProof-WSD combination is the enhanced end-to-end traffic management solution, ensuring application and content health, as well as optimization and performance."
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching, guaranteeing the best operation and servicing of IP applications and enterprise traffic across the Internet. Radware aligns application needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application operations and extend security, ensuring the integrity of the critical business processes.
Radware's solutions address the needs of corporate enterprises, service providers and e-commerce business through one or more of our award-winning products including: Web Server Director (WSD), Cache Server Director (CSD), FireProof, LinkProof, Peer Director and the CertainT 100. Radware's comprehensive suite of products service end-to-end application operations and provide robust and scalable network traffic assurance. Get certain, from click to content, across your network - with Radware. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com
About Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines (continental.com) is the fifth largest airline in the U.S., offering more than 1,900 departures daily to 122 domestic and 89 international destinations. Operating hubs in Newark, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, Continental serves more international cities than any other U.S. carrier, including extensive service throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Continental was named the 2001 Airline of the Year by Air Transport World, as well as the 1996 Airline of the Year, making it the only carrier to receive this honor twice in five years. Continental is in the top quarter of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America," and is ranked the nation's No. 1 airline in customer satisfaction for long and short-haul flights by Frequent Flyer Magazine and J.D. Power and Associates. Continental has received numerous awards for its BusinessFirst premium cabin (Condé Nast Traveler, OAG, Entrepreneur and SmartMoney magazines), OnePass frequent flyer program (InsideFlyer's Freddie Awards) and overall operations and management (Fortune magazine).