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unlike the traditional techniques used by other balancing
technologies.” Of the 9 months of planning, a good 5
were spent in laboratories for testing, which made it
possible to release the architecture free of all risks.
“Cisco provided us with demonstration equipment,
giving us the capability of developing all the tests
possible and of developing the configurations that we
then put into service.”
The benefits of the particular network architecture
chosen are tangible as also are the improvements that the
virtualisation and “multi-homing” will have from a
commercial point of view: once again, technology and
business go hand in hand, as Barbalinardo concludes,
“The consolidation of the technological assets will
generate substantial savings in operating costs, as well as
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the obvious advantages deriving from the significant
increase in the availability of the applications. At the
same time, the high reliability of the system offers us the
possibility of going ahead with operations for upgrading
or patching the effectiveness of the equipment, as well as
low operating costs owing to the absence of a service
provider for the connection between the two sites, and,
not least, the scalability and expansibility of the
architecture at marginal costs.” 
By choosing Cisco, TSF has confirmed its own
commitment towards innovation and an avant-garde
approach to making farsighted technological
investments, developing in fact an innovative model of
Data Centre architecture that will also be capable of
replication in other contexts.
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