Today, the bank provides a complete portfolio of financial services and is the tenth largest financial institution in North America, with more than 1,200 branches in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The company's network stretches to Central and South America, Europe, and East Asia, putting it in a strong position to compete in the global financial market. The solution is cost-effective, because the bank pays only for bandwidth it uses. Another use for the MLTG feature of Communications Server is to ease the pain sometimes associated with software distribution. As a full-service bank, new data is distributed to servers almost every day, but there are very few hours in any week that the network can be used to distribute large updates to the system software.
Scheduling is complex, and updates can take place over a series of weekend nights.
Today, most system software changes are mailed to each branch and installed by IT professionals who travel to the site. MLTG, by allowing the random addition of bandwidth, will enable more flexibility in scheduling large system updates with minimal disruption to the customers and the staff. We get continuous availability at a very affordable price. We can also take advantage of other technologies such as frame relay as they develop. If a link should fail, HPR will dynamically reroute the data to a different link without disrupting the session.