Case Study

Brl Hardy

One of the world's top 10 wine companies, BRL Hardy implemented NP Gateway to manage a wide area network across three countries. Since then, the network has consistently achieved sub-second response times using the same bandwidth, even during periods of the greatest demand. During vintage, customer orders are phoned in every minute, and critical processes demand that grape trucks must leave precisely every 10 minutes.

"On one occasion we had a user send a 20 MB presentation to a site operating on narrow bandwidth and critical business activity was severely hampered. We found that putting in an NP resolved these problems.

"It is critical for us to keep our costs down and we find that the NP gives us that flexibility to ensure that our network costs are always contained.The user acceptance of NP has been wonderful. They no longer complain about latency. When we roll out a new application it just works seamlessly." - Neil Scrutton, Group IS Manager, BRL Hardy.