Case Study: Devon Fire and Rescue Service achieves faster, more reliable emergency alerting with Perle IOLAN device servers

Devon Fire and Rescue Service cuts emergency alerting costs by up to £5,000 a year with Perle

Devon Fire and Rescue Service faced a challenge with its emergency alerting system, which relied on slow, expensive point-to-point communication circuits to its fire stations. These circuits cost up to £5,000 per year each and provided insufficient 64 Kbps speeds for the service's increasing IT demands. Perle provided its IOLAN single port device server as part of the solution.

Perle's solution involved connecting the serial port of each station's mobilizing unit to a broadband VPN via the IOLAN device server. This upgrade eliminated the costly private circuits, increased connection speeds, and created a highly reliable system backed by an uninterruptible power supply. The measurable results were significantly reduced costs and a faster, more dependable alerting system that helps save lives.

Devon Fire and Rescue Service