WARP 2063E Application Pre-Processor Case Study
AMP Recovers 90% of WAN Traffic and Achieves an Average 1 Second Reponse Time

About AMP, Inc.

Established in 1849 as a mutual company, AMP has grown to be one of the largest companies in Australasia, listing on the Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges in mid-1998. AMP has transformed from an Australasian-based mutual society centred on life insurance into a broad based financial services company, focused on wealth management

The Challenge

To deliver peak performance content delivery for AMP's intranet from Australia to the United Kingdom without impact
to existing application performance and at minimal costs.

The Solution

WARP 2063E Application Pre-Processor

The Results

  • Average response time dropped from 15 seconds to 1 second with only 5% of all requests routed to the
    Australian servers.
  • Overall WAN frame relay traffic dropped by over 90% and backend server workload was also
    dramatically reduced.
  • Need to procure costly network bandwidth upgrades and backend server upgrades was elimintated.