New Mexico's statewide court system is comprised of the State Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, District Courts, Magistrate Courts, and Probate Courts. Approximately 300 judges preside in courtrooms located throughout the state. A statewide communications network connects all sites.
Locations in larger cities such as Santa Fe and Albuquerque are supported by ATM T1 or larger circuits. Because of a patchwork of small, independent telcos, however, many remote sites were previously limited to Frame Relay 56k DDS. In addition to being very costly - $500 to $1500 per month - these 56k circuits also lacked the bandwidth and reliability that would be needed when the State deployed a new, centralized court Case Management system in Santa Fe. "Every
location needed good connectivity for that application to work," says Sam Noble, senior network administrator for New Mexico Courts.
After some research, Noble learned of Vyatta open networking appliances. Vyatta solutions combine enterprise-class routing and security with the performance and economics of open systems, giving network administrators the ability to innovate, scale, and grow in ways that were previously unavailable.
Vyatta provided functionality that would have been unavailable or very costly to add to Cisco or Netscreen equipment, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), VPN Concentrator, URL filtering, and packet capture.
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