Case Study: Air Methods Corporation achieves better QoS visibility and network control with LiveAction

Utilizing Visualization to Shape Traffic on The Network

Air Methods Corporation, a nationwide air medical transport provider operating 300 bases across 48 states, needed a better way to manage network traffic as its business expanded. During a bandwidth-intensive network upgrade, the company found its existing WAN optimization hardware could no longer keep up, and it wanted to use Cisco router QoS more effectively while gaining better visibility into traffic shaping.

LiveAction provided the answer with its LiveNX software, which Air Methods deployed to visualize and manage Cisco QoS policies. The solution made it easier to see traffic flows, adjust policies on the fly, and avoid CLI errors, allowing Air Methods to transition smoothly from hardware appliances to software-based control, reduce the need for costly upgrades, and better support critical communications and new applications as traffic demands changed.

Air Methods Corporation

Xavier Chaparro

senior network engineer