CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 September 2007
Product News
CIM DATABASE / EdgeServer: Enhanced Performance for Global Sites
The CONTACT Software GmbH extends its offer around global data management for enterprises with distributed product development. Immediately the EdgeServer as a new component of the CIM DATABASE platform is available. It again accelerates the access from remote locations to the central PDM data base. This is made possible especially through optimized communication protocols for wide area networks (WAN). Together with CIM DATABASE' intelligent replication technique locations throughout the globe, e.g. in Far East or South America, now benefit from high-performance connections to the logically central PLM-backbone.
Latencies, which indicate the running time of a signal between two network knodes, decrease for physical reasons at intercontinental connections in relation to national locations usually around the factor 10 and more. In order to effectively accelerate transaction times, CONTACT Software in close coordination with one of their customers developed the technology behind the new EdgeServer product. The automotive supplier uses CIM DATABASE as a global development platform and puts the new product component into operation at world-wide 19 locations since the end of August.
Since then the expected improvements in locations such as China and Brazil were met in each case and to some extent exceeded considerably. On the average a performance enhancement between 47 and 67 per cent was reached. Depending on the use case even improvements of over 80 per cent were measured.
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