ACI Worldwide has announced that SunTrust Bank has gone live with ACI Communication Services for Advanced Networking, to bring SunTrust's ATM network into alignment with the bank's primary communication infrastructure, ensuring ATM processing is robust and scalable.
According to a news release from ACI, SunTrust has been an ACI BASE24 customer for more than 25 years. SunTrust wanted to simplify ATM-network configuration by eliminating the separate SNA network interconnection; bringing the ATM transaction traffic into its primary TCP/IP network; and improving network throughput, availability and reliability.
In conjunction with a server upgrade from HP NonStop K-Series to HP Integrity servers, the bank deployed ACI Communication Services for Advanced Networking — High Performance Routing/IP — to achieve this goal.
"Having worked with ACI for a number of years, and also having run previous similar projects, it was the obvious choice for us to come to ACI for help with this, said James Bone, SunTrust's vice president of EDS ATM development. "The consolidation of servers and increased transaction volumes within the enterprise required highly available, extremely fast connectivity. With ACI's HPR/IP solution and IBM's System z Enterprise Extender, we exceeded throughput requirements, while reducing both response time and demand on system resources. In addition, with ACI's HPR/IP solution, we eliminated the IBM 3745 Communications Controller with no application code changes."
