| Global Network Infrastructure For Large Telecommunications Company |
| Problem |
- Large global telecommunications company had:
- Multiple, disparate internal corporate networks that could not "talk" to each other
- High operations cost due to unnecessary duplicate circuits and heavy reliance on expensive external circuits
- Non-integrated enterprise-wide IP strategy
- No network management or automated fault reporting
- Limited to non-existent network security
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| Project Objectives |
- Single, seamless logical and physical IP architecture to meet current needs and scale to meet future needs
- Significantly reduced operating costs, utilizing own capacity where available
- Full communication across the enterprise and "ubiquitous" end user access from any location
- Strong security to protect the enterprise
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| Approach |
- Inventoried and audited entire enterprise network(s)
- Combined multiple internal network organizations into single entity with common focus and goals
- Designed flexible and scalable IP strategy to meet current and planned business needs
- Created global "communication hubs" to connect various sites to decrease communication costs while improving bandwidth
- Implemented network changes in multiple phases during non-business hours to minimize impact on on-going operations
- Instigated strong change control procedures to prevent small local changes from impacting global enterprise network
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| Results |
- Cut recurring network circuit costs by over 50% resulting in significant first year savings even after including costs of project capital improvements
- Internal customers able to take laptop to any location worldwide, plug into network, and work as if they were back at their home location
- Complete security and global firewall policies and procedures implemented to protect enterprise yet allow seamless corporate communication both within the enterprise and remotely
- Allowed enterprise to implement global systems/applications never before possible due to network constraints
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