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PAV solution slashes call charges for flight simulator company.

Business Background
Quadrant Systems is the fastest growing flight simulation company in the UK. In providing a comprehensive range of services covering every key area of flight simulation, the company caters for the specific needs of both civil and military customers in the UK and world-wide. In addition to their world-wide maintenance contracts, Quadrant Systems have flight simulators in the UK at widely dispersed sites – Burgess Hill and Shoreham in Sussex, Waddington in Lincolnshire and Linton on Ouse, North Yorkshire.

Requirement – Reduce telephone bills and network administration costs
We were asked to help in reducing the costs of Quadrant Systems' Wide-Area Network and network administration, between their UK bases. Three sites were connected for data-link purposes by ISDN and the annual dial-up charges between these sites amounted to over £30,000.

PAV Solution
We suggested routing data through leased lines between the sites and because of the bandwidth involved, we recommended using a CITRIX thin client solution. We installed CITRIX servers at Quadrant Systems' headquarters at Burgess Hill and set up all the users for the other two sites as thin clients. This enabled the administration for all three sites to be handled centrally from Burgess Hill.

Outcome
Quadrant Systems now have reduced and known fixed WAN costs based on the much lower bandwidth required for CITRIX. They also benefit from centralised administration and much easier roll-out to remote sites and bases. Quadrant Systems' annual connection charges are now fixed and have been reduced by about 50%. They subsequently added the fourth site in Yorkshire, which has been connected to the CITRIX network along the same lines, reducing costs even further. The company intend to expand further in the near future secure in the knowledge that the new network design will enable more sites to be added relatively simply.