SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Talari Networks, Inc. today announced Whiting & Partners has deployed Talari's WAN Virtualization appliances to ensure high-availability networks for voice and data applications, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Using Talari’s WAN Virtualization technology, the firm of general practice chartered accountants has increased bandwidth by a factor of five, cut the cost per Mbps in half, and made the network more reliable for their real-time and interactive applications.

WAN Virtualization (using Talari's adaptive private networking (APN) appliances) aggregates two or more network connections (e.g., DSL, cable, fiber and Ethernet over copper, etc.) into a single logical network, continuously monitoring the performance of every network path between six remote sites and the firm’s head office in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Measurements of loss, latency and jitter are used to detect and respond, sub-second, to congestion, for real-time traffic engineering decisions on a packet-by-packet basis.

Since 2005, Whiting & Partners has relied on a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network with a single DSL-based tail circuit connecting each site. But the MPLS network, with no tail circuit SLA, was consistently unreliable, with sites sometimes going down for a week at a time.

With Talari, the MPLS network is still in place, and a separate DSL connection has been added at each site. “This gives us complete carrier diversity and, with Talari, the resiliency that we were looking for,” says Chris Haydon, IT manager with Whiting & Partners.

Most incoming traffic is routed over the MPLS network because of the available bandwidth. However, outgoing traffic is typically directed by Talari over the DSL circuits. Now when the MPLS connection goes down, all traffic is instantly diverted over the DSL circuits, thus ensuring no detectable interruption of business-critical applications.

In anticipation of VDI and eventually VoIP, Haydon has begun converting the MPLS circuits over to a new service from TalkTalk that will provide 10 Mbps Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) to all of Whiting & Partners’ office sites. Talari’s Mercury T730 and T200 appliances will provide resiliency in combination with these new circuits.

Once VDI and VoIP are deployed, Whiting & Partners will have the flexibility to open a new office much more easily with less cost, according to Haydon.

“Today we’d need a file server and fat client PCs,” says Haydon. “In the future, all we’ll need is a dumb terminal on the desktop, an IP phone, a Talari T200, and some connectivity.”

About Whiting & Partners

Founded in 1928, Whiting & Partners are a firm of general practice chartered accountants with 16 partners and around 130 staff, based in eight East Anglian market towns in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The firm’s traditional accountancy and tax return compliance work has now been expanded to include many specialties and niche services.

About Talari Networks, Inc.

Talari Networks' WAN Virtualization solutions bring Internet economics to corporate WANs by transforming broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver business-class reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices. Talari delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40% to 90%, and greater reliability than existing corporate WANs. In 2011, Talari was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and its Mercury T750 won Best of Interop--Performance Optimization. For more information, please visit www.talari.com.