Routers Unify Diverse Interests FMC is a multinational corporation, whose diversity of business interests is matched by an equally diverse global network. The Chicago-based company of over 20,000 employees is active in such disparate areas as airline equipment, industrial and agricultural chemicals, defense systems, food processing, and petroleum.
Complex operations create complex challenges.
We didn't want to spend a lot of money, and we didn't want to create a separate network. NCSA told Riddell that some of its other users had turned to Cisco Systems' routers to solve their networking dilemmas, so he decided to run a few tests. We brought a pair of Cisco routers into our integration laboratory for a week. By the following Monday morning, we had them up and running over our IBM test network. When the time came for FMC to design an internetwork that would merge its IBM network with a separate LAN-based network, the choice was clear.