New Zealand Council Future Proofs Network with A10 ADC Appliances

TCDC manages social, economic, cultural, and environmental matters for a diverse community on the East Coast of New Zealand’s North Island. A wide array of online services comprise a key element of TCDC’s commitment to local businesses, residents, and internal users. These services include everything from waste collection to town planning, and span the gamut from libraries to environmental issues and local cemeteries. The TCDC relies heavily on web-based services to provide an efficient delivery mechanism to all parties and to support the organisation’s overall mission and goals. According to TCDC, the local authority focuses on ensuring that its communities have a good quality of life, now and in the future. TCDC identifies what its communities require and pinpoints the most effective ways of fulfilling those needs. The commitment to mission-critical online services demands a fast, reliable network. Based on its previous technology, TCDC’s ability to support the future requirements of all stakeholders was very limited. Performance, security, and overall manageability were being compromised and the situation was expected to deteriorate further as more applications were added to the network. Auckland-based IT consultants Network Edge, who have worked closely with TCDC for some years, suggested that TCDC look at ways of speeding up their applications and preparing the network for greater capacity in the near future. Paul Johnson from Network Edge said: “There were some performance issues with the network setup. Application delivery relied on an end-of-life (EOL) Microsoft ISA, which was fine initially, but the infrastructure could not meet increasing demands and support the new services TCDC were looking to introduce.”

The Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) in the North Island of New Zealand is seated in the town of Thames. It is located in the region around the Firth of Thames and Coromandel Peninsula, to the southeast of Auckland. It is the first District council to be formed in New Zealand, being constituted in 1975. As of June 2012, the population of the TCDC district is estimated at 27,000. Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) in New Zealand has created a fast, reliable future-proofed network for interacting with and servicing its various communities. The main drivers of this efficient technology are two application delivery controllers from A10 Networks, whose benefits include enabling Council’s web pages to load five times faster than before.