traffic in case studies
Cambridge Uni keeps tabs on web traffic
Case Study The University of Cambridge is using network management software to help monitor and load-balance a massive increase in web traffic across its campus-wide admin network. The university's management information service (MIS) team has been running... [05 Oct 2007]
Visit London gets 'WebTrendy'
Case Study Tourism group Visit London has received a significant boost in website traffic following changes made using intelligence gained from web analytics. Willmott said the website now has more visitors - site traffic has risen by between 10 and 15 per... [21 Jun 2007]
Tate makes e-bulletins an artform
Case Study Tate Online uses the Lyris ListManager system to send out the e-bulletins, which cost up to £20,000 to deploy and have increased traffic and sales across the site. Stack said: "If you feature something in an email bulletin you see a spike in... [06 Jul 2007]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study The ITF's website (daviscup.com) provides live scoring and statistics for up to 10 Davis Cup ties, seeing huge traffic spikes of up to six million page views per match weekend. One of the big challenges was to find a delivery on the internet that... [12 Mar 2008]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Gill said: "The challenge is transactions appear in a very peaky way between 19:00 and midnight [of Red Nose Day] so there's a huge volume of what potentially can be very dense traffic. Comic Relief has revamped its website and IT infrastructure to... [15 Mar 2007]
Broadband boosts building society's network
Case Study Britannia Building Society has upgraded its network to broadband to cope with the increase in traffic created by the new applications it is rolling out. The UK's second biggest building society, Britannia was spurred into the network update by the... [02 Sep 2005]
Concert hall makes sure callers don't sing the blues
Case Study When we had peaks in call traffic, for instance when tickets for an Eric Clapton concert went on sale, we didn't have any interactive voice response (IVR) or call messaging to help us. Home of the Proms the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) has updated its... [30 May 2007]
Convergence cuts costs at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital
Case Study This means internal calls, which account for 80 per cent of all the Trust's call traffic, are now free. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in the heart of London has cut costs and call waiting times after replacing an ageing analogue... [18 Jul 2006]
Left-handed stormtroopers fight for ecommerce site
Case Study Being entirely online means Milson is keen to capitalise on unusual sources of traffic. An ecommerce website specialising in products for the left-handed has enlisted Star Wars stormtroopers as part of its sales arsenal. [21 Nov 2006]
How UCAS made its website a high achiever
Case Study OneSight operates an on-screen traffic-light system to show the status of each potential bottleneck on the site. The UCAS (University and Colleges Applications Service) website has developed considerably in recent years and is now the main resource... [16 Feb 2007]
Bank security spend beats spam and malware
Case Study The company evaluated updates from its incumbent provider and an offering from Tumbleweed and settled on the latter's email firewall and anti-spam service which would stop much of the rogue traffic at the perimeter.silicon.com Financial Services [03 Oct 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study Morning also said some operators' inability to cope with the sheer volume of traffic generated by BlackBerrys and similar devices can prove troublesome. With nearly 4,000 BlackBerrys across 75 countries and numerous carriers, Coca-Cola boasts one... [17 May 2006]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study And there are bandwidth benefits too, says Lea: "In a traditional [wi-fi network architecture] system all the clients will be contending against each other to gain the access point's availability so that they can transmit and receive traffic. [18 Mar 2008]
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