Sangfor – Internet Access Management , SSL VPN & WAN Optimization

SANGFOR IAM: GAC Toyota

Background
GAC Toyota is a joint venture founded by Guangzhou Automobile Group and Toyota Motor, Japan's largest automobile manufacturer.
Challenges
GAC Toyota's IT department manages its network closely because it knows improper activities can influence the whole network environment such as abuse of internet usage - people will do chatting, shopping and surfing during office hours which reduces efficiency; or internal activities like emailing confidential documents or posting unauthorized statements on the internet can pose security risks; the worse is P2P activity consumes a huge amount of bandwidth which is required by mission-critical applications.
Benefits
After installing the SANGFOR IAM, GAC Toyota can now identify its employees' internet activities, including online gaming, online stock trading, P2P and IM, during working hours. This has greatly improved productivity. Meanwhile, confidential information is well protected, all staff network activity is recorded and SANGFOR IAM provides relevant reports to give management a comprehensive understanding of how its network is being used.

SANGFOR IAM: GE Healthcare Group

Background
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is a global infrastructure, finance and media company employing more than 320,000 people worldwide. Its subsidiary GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit serving patients in more than 100 countries.
Challenge
GE Healthcare has a comprehensive service system to manage the installation and maintenance of medical apparatus. The system allows a large number of engineers to share their headquarters' technical datum on an intranet. As the number of users and their requirements grew, intranet security became a priority. GE's IT department knew it needed to identify and manage access behavior.
Benefit
GE Healthcare deployed the SANFOR M5100-S and opted for its combined authentication method, requiring user name, password and SMS, for intranet access. In addition, GE Healthcare applied SANGFOR's customized log-in interface function, ensuring full compliance with GE's style for both login and logout interfaces. The solution has given GE Healthcare fast, stable and safe access interface for its maintenance engineers abroad, helping them to quickly find the medical materials they need and enhancing the company's after-sales maintenance.

SANGFOR WANO: TNS Global (Taylor Nelson Sofres)

Background
TNS is one of the world's leading providers of market information. Established in the United States, it has more than 60 years of experience in political and social polling and media intelligence, and has become one of the largest providers of custom research and analysis. Its mission is to contribute expertise and knowledge together with internationally consistent, up-to-the-minute information to clients worldwide.
Challenges
As an international corporation involved in the marketing industry, the transfer of frequent and large amounts of data is a day-to-day part of TNS's operations. The TNS global network spans 70 countries across Europe, America and Asia Pacific, and serves branches that always need quick and easily-managed connections to upload or download documents and other data. To meet this need, while facing a continuously growing portfolio and cutting the cost of expensive DDN lines, WAN Optimization became a necessity to boost transmission speeds.
Benefits
TNS' Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Singapore branches running CIFS, SQL and TNS's private applications were the primary targets for acceleration using the SANGFOR solution. The results were impressive and immediately apparent: After implementing three SANGFOR WAN devices, TNS experienced a speed enhancement of up to 1000%, completing data transfers "in a tick". Moreover, less time is now spent for site communications and there are fewer disconnections and reconnections. The outcome is improved efficiency and productivity.

SANGFOR WANO: Crystal digital company

Background
Beijing-based Crystal is one of the largest visual technology application service companies for the global design industry. Its professional image technology has been used in a large number of projects, including at the Beijing Olympic Games where it was the authorized 3D image development company. Crystal's more than 1500 employees serve customers in Europe, America and the Middle East, and the company has a service network covering its Beijing headquarters and branch offices in China's coastal cities and abroad.
Challenge
Crystal's rapid expansion at home and abroad was placing unprecedented stress on the network with the greatest problems being experienced in its overseas business.
The toughest problem on Crystal's networks was very low transmission rates when overseas branch offices downloaded video, audio and image files from the server in the Beijing headquarters, especially at peak hours. The average transmission rate was only 9.8kbps and it could take over an hour to transmit a video file of dozens of megabytes. Employees were fed up with frequent breakages on their VPN lines, which sometimes meant transmissions had to be repeated when the network failed just minutes from the end of a long transmission. The delays and failures were undermining Crystal's work schedule. At the root of the problems were the low-speed ADSL lines used by overseas branch offices and the shocking latency and packet loss rates on international Internet links. Real-world tests showed that the latency from branch offices such as those in Dubai and London to the Beijing HQ was over 500ms, and the packet loss rate was one to five percent.
Branch offices in China were also interconnected with the HQ through VPN lines, so the business in China was similarly affected.
Benefit
Crystal deployed SANGFOR's WAN Optimization solution and the effect was immediate. Transmission rates increased by 10 times up to 180kbps, and network line drops were virtually eliminated. Crystal reported that the transmission rate between the company and its overseas branch offices improved, enhancing overall productivity. Employees no longer needed to waste time on waiting for files to transmit, reducing both the project cycle and the number of complaints from employees.