As the fifth largest airline in the United States, Continental Airlines offers more than 2,200 departures daily to 136 domestic and 87 international destinations. It operates hubs in Houston, Newark, and Cleveland and provides extensive service throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. With more than 2,200 daily departures to more than 200 airports, and 51,500 employees around the world, Continental Airlines operates a large and sophisticated corporate network. And like many large, geographically dispersed companies, Continental uses a variety of methods to connect its remote users and sites to the corporate network. The company uses frame relay to connect large sites.
Direct dial is available for local users.
But as it grew in popularity, the monthly costs became difficult for the company to justify. Continental found that users at small remote sites were keeping their connections to the LAN open all day long, running up a big bill. We clearly needed a better solution. This is why Continental turned to the advanced integrated networking capabilities of Microsoft Windows 2000. These knowledge workers need quick, reliable, and secure access to the corporate network so they can use Sales Insight, e-mail, and other applications.