Expanding a business to new territories can have great benefits, but can also have great problems. While having several branches in several cities is always helpful to customers, network connectivity can be another situation. While most banks use expensive T1 or frame relay circuits, one in southeast Missouri decided to save money by internalizing their WAN system.

This particular bank has nine branches throughout the southeast corner of the state. Several relay towers had to be used to cover the great distances between branches, however, that did impede the latency or the return on investment, which was just around three years. The new wireless network not only saves the bank money, it increased their performance by increasing the available bandwidth to each bank branch.