For Merck KGaA, a major chemical and pharmaceutical company with over 40,000 employees located across six continents, communication and information sharing could be a challenge. With a need to ensure ubiquitous and on demand access to data, Merck proactively sought a means for ensuring the performance of its critical business applications for users around the globe, setting expectations for end user performance, and determining the most cost effective means for deploying applications across wide geographic areas.

ING DIRECT has an internal mandate to achieve 100% customer satisfaction. To meet this goal, the company needed to assure that every customer experience was optimal. ING DIRECT had to test whether or not applications linked to a new call center in Hawaii could be deployed. Developers typically write code on a LAN. The code they write, however, typically runs on a WAN. This simple disparity is the cause of countless problems for developers, network managers and business users alike.

As more and more video content is being served over the internet, delivering high quality video with a satisfactory end user experience becomes very challenging. This challenge is increasingly more complex as consumers are accessing video streams not only from desktop browsers but also from tablets and mobile handsets over WiFi, 2.5G, 3G and 4G networks.

Hotspot FX is committed to delivering an efficient, instantaneous and reliable means of trading in the foreign exchange market. With a requirement of being able to execute sub-second transactions, the company began looking for a partner who would enable them to validate performance across real-world networks and enable them to make wellinformed business and technology decisions about their architecture before making any investments. Download this case study to find out how Shunra helped.