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Enterasys Networks today announced that Travelex, the world's largest foreign exchange specialist, has deployed Secure Networks solutions that provide a secure, scaleable, resilient infrastructure for its European headquarters in London. The leading non-bank provider of commercial foreign exchange services turned to Enterasys when the company needed to replace its network in order to handle sharply increased volumes of traffic. Also factoring into the decision to deploy Enterasys products and solutions was Travelex's plan to add new voice and video-streaming applications to its network. Tony Warzytz, network manager for Travelex, said the company conducted a rigorous review of available switching products and decided that Enterasys' Matrix N-Series switches best met its needs, now and in the future. "Enterasys continues to stand out from the crowd when it comes to secure networking," said Warzytz. "We found that the N-Series' distributed, flow-based architecture allowed for a highly granular level of control to data streams at the switch level, but at the same time offered us tremendous capacity for handling large volumes of traffic." The project included pre-installation testing and the migration of nearly 1,000 users and more than 300 servers onto the new network. "The key benefits are performance, reliability, manageability and capability," said Warzytz. "The network now has ample capacity to meet the demands of our high-performance computer systems. We'll be expecting even more from the network in the future--as new applications are introduced, and traffic characteristics change." Warzytz says the new Enterasys secure network has given Travelex faster system response times, equating to greater efficiency for staff, and improved service to customers. "This is a great success story," added Travelex IT director Gareth Richards. "Enterasys has given us an edge that other vendors would struggle to deliver. The level of technical support was first-rate and we would not hesitate to recommend Enterasys as a company that cares about the future of security, and about good communication with its customers." John Roese, chief technology officer of Enterasys Networks, says Enterasys enables enterprises to confidently address current and future network security challenges. "As all organizations prepare for the brave new world of converged media, including voice and video on the data network, their need for comprehensive network security and management solutions will be greater than ever. Enterasys is proud to work with Travelex in deploying our Secure Networks products and solutions to provide the company with industry-leading performance and security, which enables faster and more efficient service delivery for their users and systems. What sets Enterasys apart from other networking vendors is the close working relationship we develop with our customers. We work together as partners to deliver the most feature-rich and secure networks designed to meet each customer's unique needs." The Enterasys Secure Networks Advantage Enterasys' industry-leading Secure Networks products and solutions provide the industry's most comprehensive embedded infrastructure security available today. Secure Networks delivers granular policy-based security, providing visibility and control down to the network device, individual user and application level, which enables network managers to quickly and easily detect, assess, locate and protect against attacks. This unmatched security comes from the integrated policy-based management software architecture that works with the embedded security capabilities Enterasys designs into its entire product line. Enterasys' unique architectural approach offers significant operational and business benefits, unmatched by vendors that add hardware or software to multiple network access points in an attempt to increase security. In fact, Secure Networks technology can even make networks with competitors' equipment more secure.