The cost savings are estimated to be over $100,000 annually. "Indeed, enabling our suburban offices connectivity using traditional methods would probably have been beyond our financial means," said Ashley Draper, IT&T Manager at Messenger Newspapers.
"An alternative would have been a 2Mb/s On-Ramp facility at over $20,000 per annum per link!" The cost effective and fast wireless
network solution has enabled Messenger Newspapers to link all their outer offices with no on-going costs and more than enough bandwidth for the foreseeable future. With their new free-to-air spread spectrum wireless ethernet links Messenger Newspapers are now able to send full size, full colour page proofs averaging 20-50Mb in size directly to their outer sites where they are proofed in less than five minutes. Previously, they were produced locally then sent by courier to the outer sites. The speed of the wireless links has revolutionised work practices.The production department and the sales department have increased productivity substantially. Direct outer office colour proofing is the most obvious benefit, and is in addition to excellent Metropolitan Area
Network (M.A.N.) speeds being realised for everyday use for file transfer, print sharing, web access, email etc. Part of the News Limited Group, Messenger Newspapers distributes their suburban newspapers free of charge so when it came time to replace and expand their fixed line network they were particularly mindful of costs. Download our Detailed Success Story |  |
