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To: Kenneth R Miller who wrote (11583)	12/17/1997 2:09:00 PM
From: hpeace	Respond to of 97611

NESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1997-- Expanded Enterprise Systems Testing Facility Provides Full- Scale Proof-of-Concept Testing Environment for North America Customers Underscoring its commitment to becoming number one in customer satisfaction, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) today announced the grand opening of the Enterprise Solution Center (ESC) in Houston, designed to provide full-scale, proof-of-concept testing resources to North American and global customers. As Compaq's primary solution center, the new and improved facility is the largest of a group of labs located around the country that are managed by Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services. Smaller-scale, satellite facilities are located in New York City and San Francisco. Additional centers are scheduled to open in Atlanta and Chicago in the first half of 1998. The new Compaq Enterprise Solution Center is one of the world's most comprehensive testing facilities. Enterprise Solution Center Offers Impressive Array of Compaq Resources The high-tech lab features more than 1200 Compaq desktop computers, a variety of Compaq ProLiant servers and an assortment of Compaq Netelligent networking components that can be configured to replicate and provide proof-of-concept testing of systems environments prior to actual deployment by Compaq customers. "The new Compaq Enterprise Solution Center will provide unprecedented, real-world proof-of-concept testing capabilities for Compaq customers," said Ed Wolyniec, Vice President, North America Enterprise Services, Compaq Computer Corporation. "While many of our competitors offer some form of testing capability, they typically must simulate the demands of large networked environments with virtual clients using software emulation. In our Enterprise Solution Centers, we physically assemble full-scale distributed environments based on customers' planned or production implementations and test every component involved in the system. As a result, Compaq customers are able to preview how a proposed system of desktops, networking equipment, servers and software will perform under real-life operating conditions." To further complement the wide breadth of Compaq hardware and technical expertise, ESC systems can be configured to support a variety of networking topologies, protocols and operating environments to include 16 Mb Token Ring, 10 Mb shared Ethernet, and 10 Mb switched Ethernet connectivity. Six hundred of the desktop units are also capable of 100 Mb shared Ethernet connectivity. The various satellite centers located around the country, including the centers scheduled to open next year, are similarly equipped, but on a slightly smaller scale. Each satellite location contains approximately 100 desktop nodes on site, as well as servers and networking components that can be linked via high-bandwidth connection to all other centers, forming a 1600-node wide area network infrastructure to accommodate large-scale testing.(a) Compaq Customers Attest to Benefits of Enterprise Solution Center Many of Compaq's customers, working closely with Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services, have garnered tremendous results from the resources available in the Enterprise Solution Centers. Deloitte & Touche engaged Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services and used the ESC to determine the maximum user load for its internally developed time-billing system. At first, the application failed to support more than 60 users. "The results revealed in the ESC identified problems that we wouldn't have found until it was too late," said John Lay, a Senior Technical Specialist with Deloitte & Touche. "Working with a great team of professionals from Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services, we made minor hardware and software modifications that dramatically improved performance. As a direct result, our application can now comfortably support up to 1600 users." After deciding to migrate 20,000 users to Microsoft Exchange and Schedule Plus, the Boeing Company asked Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services to conduct tests in the Enterprise Solution Center using Compaq ProLiant servers and determine the best configuration for supporting and maintaining the transition. After the full-scale proof-of-concept testing was complete, Boeing confidently deployed the Compaq solution and successfully completed the migration. The successes realized as a result of conducting tests in the Compaq Enterprise Solution Center have been shared by numerous customers who have repeatedly relied on the talents of Compaq Enterprise Consulting Services to support extensive and reliable full-scale testing of systems and designs prior to deployment. The results achieved offer Compaq customers peace of mind in knowing that their system configurations have been proven effective in a real-world