Ecessa Selected by Bite Communications to Ensure WAN Reliability and Performance

PowerLink WAN Link Controllers Deployed in London and San Francisco Offices
Provide ISP Redundancy and Failover
PLYMOUTH, Minn.--(Business Wire)--
Ecessa (formerly Astrocom), a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for
small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced that Bite
Communications has deployed Ecessa`s PowerLink WAN link controllers to manage
its growing WAN infrastructure demands. The PowerLink products provide Bite
Communications with seamless failover between ISP connections and the ability to
control bandwidth across applications and user traffic. This deployment
underscores how marketing agencies are realizing the criticality of load
balancing and failover for both incoming and outgoing WAN connections.

Recognizing the need to ensure reliability and improve performance in supporting
its internal users, Bite Communications deployed a PowerLink 200 at its London
office, and the same model at its San Francisco office. In doing so, both office
locations were able to gain WAN reliability and faster performance, while taking
full advantage of lower bandwidth costs.

"We evaluated Ecessa, FatPipe and XRoads Networks. We chose Ecessa`s PowerLink,
not only because it met all the technology requirements that we had, but, price
also came into the equation," said Dan Chase, vice president of global IT at
Bite Communications. "The key thing for me was their support. The fact that
PowerLink becomes the authoritative DNS for our domain was a huge deal for us,
and we really needed to know that there was a great support network there for
us, especially while we learned how to use the product. I would have to say that
Ecessa has the best support team I have ever worked with in 16 years in the
industry."

If the primary ISP has an outage, Bite Communications is safe in the knowledge
that its users won`t even notice because PowerLink will automatically and
seamlessly direct users to the other ISP connections. Chase adds, "This solution
is a perfect fit for companies our size because bandwidth is so much cheaper
these days. We are no longer tied to using just one service provider. With
PowerLink we can easily manage two or more ISPs with automatic failover
capabilities."

Bite Communications is able to easily send and receive different traffic types
over separate incoming and outgoing WAN connections. For example, SharePoint
data is replicated over the WAN, and Ecessa can dedicate the SharePoint traffic
to go over the secondary ISP link. This allows the primary WAN link to be
available for HTTP and email traffic, enabling faster Internet speeds for all
online social networking and Web 2.0 work.

"PowerLink provides a great deal of value to companies like Bite
Communications," said Ron Thomas, president and CEO of Ecessa. "In addition to
providing WAN reliability through redundant WAN connections to protect against
link failures, PowerLink can increase network performance by aggregating, and
even bonding two or more WAN links, such as cable, DSL, wireless, satellite, T1,
and other network links to increase bandwidth capacity."

About Ecessa

Ecessa (formerly Astrocom) is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for
WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network
security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME)
that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application
delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network
high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure
access - while streamlining IT costs.

At one-third the cost of other competing products, Ecessa`s PowerLink and
ShieldLink deliver industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes
WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and
application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical,
time-sensitive applications.

Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs;
enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the
best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during
periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to
direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.

Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each
application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to
support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in
Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at
1-800-669-6242.

About Bite Communications

Bite, a subsidiary of the Next Fifteen Communications Group, is a 150-strong
communications consultancy with offices in Beijing, London, Toronto, Los
Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Stockholm. With a mission to deliver
fearless and boundless communications campaigns to its range of B2B and B2C
clients, Bite has built its business upon developing creative,
results-orientated campaigns for market-leading blue chip and fast growing,
emerging start-up brands. Its client list includes Apple, AMD, Facebook, Juniper
Networks, Sun Microsystems and Sybase. For more information, visit the Bite
Communications website at www.bitepr.com.

WAN link optimization is also known as WAN Failover, Link Aggregation, ISP Load
Balancing, ISP Fail-over, Multi-homing Load Balancing, QoS WAN Optimization, WAN
Load Balancing, Dual WAN Routers, VPN Load Balancing, MultiWAN Switching, DNS
Load Balancing, Application Delivery Optimization, Internet Traffic Management,
Network Bandwidth Management, Bandwidth Aggregation.

Ecessa (Press)
Marc Goodman
Press@ecessa.com
or
Vantage Communications (Press for Ecessa)
Katie Lister, 407-767-0452 ext. 229
klister@pr-vantage.com

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