McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC, is an intellectual property law firm in Des Moines, Iowa, that for eighty years has offered the services of patent lawyers specializing in patents, trademarks and copyrights, and intellectual property. They have a 1.2Mb, T-1 connection to the Internet to serve somewhat more than fifty people. Still, it was bogging under the strain of the emails, legal research, web browsing, a little VoIP, and lots of transferring of large files. “We tried limiting bandwidth with our firewall, but that was frustrating because you have to do that on a protocol by protocol basis,” said Nate Smith, their IT Manager. They put in the NetEqualizer and in a short time data was flowing smoothly. They have an employee in Indiana who downloads and transcribes information. “She's able to do that in real-time now whenever she needs it.” “If I want to get an FTP download I can do it without hearing 'the Internet is slow today' or 'the phone calls are scratchy.' The NetEqualizer took care of everything by just equalizing it, just arbitrating it,” said Smith.
Nate Smith, IT Manager, McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC
