Global leaders in automotive are experiencing exponential growth in the volume of data they must store and manage. Even more challenging: To stay competitive, they must provide rapid access to this data across global networks characterized by large – and growing – disparities in bandwidth, latency, and reliability between the core and the remote edge.

For example, as an OEM’s corporate LAN is upgraded over time from 10BaseT to 100BaseT to Gigabit Ethernet, the connecting links for many of its remote sites, suppliers, and dealers are only transitioning from 56K to 256K to T1. This growing “Digital Divide” creates serious data delivery challenges, especially with respect to the large-file digital assets essential to product design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing.

When remote users attempt to access such digital assets, they experience a wait-time phenomenon increasingly referred to as “request and go to lunch.” These waits, when compounded across multiple locations and hundreds of people on the critical path, create a chain of inefficiencies:

· Wasted engineering time
· Babysitting of critical file transfers
· Pressure to keep adding bandwidth
· Less work shifted to lower cost locations
· Continued reliance on costly (and slow) physical media processes
· Project cost overruns
· Longer time to market

As competitive pressure moves more work “offshore” to infrastructure-challenged locations, these problems will only get worse.

Radiance helps automotive leaders overcome this growing Digital Divide with the industry’s first enterprise class Managed Delivery software solution. The TrueDelivery System enables guaranteed, efficient, secure delivery of digital packages across highly non-uniform global networks. The result is more reliable, faster access to digital assets and improved utilization of precious network infrastructure.


Product Development - Ensure rapid access to data in support of follow-the-sun design and engineering

Manufacturing - Digitally disseminate massive CAD/CAM datasets – even to plants in locations with severe network limitations

Compute Centers - Maximize utilization of centralized, high-cost compute resources and the network

Supplier Portals - Reliably and efficiently exchange large datasets and documents with suppliers anywhere in the world

Marketing - Accelerate global collaboration by enabling transition from slow and costly physical media processes

Service Portals - Digitally exchange large documents and datasets with dealers and service centers around the world