Major African bank selects Parallel for vital IT audit.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 March 2004-Parallel: Major African bank selects Parallel for vital IT audit(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03292004 Parallel Ltd, the UK-based IT service management company, has completed a three-month network performance audit for the African Banking Corporation (ABC).

ABC uses a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite-based network to exchange data across 13 sites in seven African countries. Following the launch of a suite of banking applications, ABC suffered serious performance issues, in particular with the quality and reliability of inter-office connectivity. Purchasing extra bandwidth proved to be an unsatisfactory short-term solution, so ABC chose to search for an external company with proven expertise to conduct a...