Challenge
- Fragmented corporate network with 100+ vendors limited innovation
- Business strategy required connecting units (eg: customer interaction and media services) across locations
- Wanted to re-establish corporate IT in partnership with leading global provider
Solution
- Implemented SD-WAN (Cisco iWAN), application-aware network
- Managed Private IP and internet services
- Optimized Wide Area Network
- Deployed Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) and Virtual Network Services (VNS)
Outcome
- Doubled North American business capacity with automatic routing via internet or secure MPLS
- Enabled business unit connections with unified, global platform
- Quickly scaled to accommodate seasonal fluctuations in customer service, finance, e-commerce, telecoms and energy supply businesses with SD-WAN
- Maintained corporate standards and met business unit needs via Verizon app store access to hundreds of vendors
- Positioned corporate IT to achieve great efficiencies by moving services into the Cloud
How we built the solution.