Storage Attached Networking + WAN Optimization: Empowering Distributed Project Teams to Share Information Fluidly and Efficiently Karl Fischer, Information Technology Manager, Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. (TPD) is a 130 person Civil Engineering firm with four offices in PA and NJ, and is consistently ranked by CE News as one of the top Civil Engineering firms in the U.S. for ensuring a quality work/life balance for its employees.  For TPD, managing and sharing information amongst geographically dispersed teams while maintaining consistently high application performance is critical to business.  That's no easy feat in a growing firm where large CADD files are the norm, and multiple teams and staff members frequently work on the same projects and require access to the same information.  Yet by building an accelerated WAN infrastructure, centralizing the data center (including SAN), redesigning the corporate file structure, and implementing information management procedures, TPD has increased productivity and improved the integrity of its business practices.  Over the past two years, TPD has implemented a centralized Data Center, SAN storage solutions, VoIP solution, and redundent and accelerated WAN.  TPD is currently implementing a document management solution to further increase the efficiency of information sharing. [ close this window ]