Case Study: Jamaica's Ministry of Finance modernizes budgeting and networks 180 terminals with Perle IOLAN+ terminal servers

Jamaica's Ministry of Finance networks 180 terminals with Perle

Jamaica's Ministry of Finance, the government's fiscal manager, faced challenges with its critical budgeting processes. It was using a variety of stand-alone PC systems that prevented adequate resource sharing and lacked the required performance. The Ministry worked with vendor Perle and its distributor to implement a new computer installation to network its user terminals.

Perle implemented its IOLAN+ terminal servers to connect 180 user terminals and multiple printers to the Ethernet backbone. This solution provided the needed host access and processing power, with the capacity to scale to over 300 users. The Perle IOLAN+ was chosen for its cost-effectiveness, compatibility with SCO's TCP/IP, and its ability to communicate on thick wire Ethernet and support remote printers.

Jamaica's Ministry of Finance