Digital transformation
Nuage Networks case study
How a global Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) rollout is increasing network capacity, while significantly lowering costs.
January 12, 2024
3 minutes
Digital transformation
Nuage Networks case study
How a global Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) rollout is increasing network capacity, while significantly lowering costs.
January 12, 2024
3 minutes
The company wanted a cost-effective way to centrally manage a fast-growing network and support a workforce that can work securely from anywhere, at any time.
With our Agile Connect Platform, we delivered a five-strategy, integrated network solution to simplify centralised management and reduce costs for the company.
The company now benefits from an integrated solution that has significantly increased its network’s capabilities and reduced costs by more than 45%.
When it comes to improving the lives of people around the world, innovation, and the speed and accuracy with which new services are developed is critical.
To be at the forefront of health technology, our customer depends on their teams being able to collaborate and work productively, no matter where they are, without disruption or delay.
The challenge
The company wanted a digital network that enabled their workforce to securely work from anywhere, at any time. Usage of their existing network was growing 30% every year, and they needed to find a way to balance demand with increasing pressure to cut costs – not an easy ask.
They were on a significant cloud transformation journey and needed their network to support the increasing use of cloud-based applications and tooling. They also needed to be able to manage the network centrally, taking the pressure off their team and improving agility.
The solution
Working together on a pioneering technology rollout
To solve the challenge, we delivered a network strategy consisting of five key components:
- SD-WAN for the delivery of enterprise services over WAN based on Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
- Software-Defined Local Access Network (SD-LAN) for secure, high performance with a single pane intelligent monitoring for onsite networking.
- Co-location hubs to create virtual data centres that interconnect cloud regions, third parties, and the organisation’s network.
- Remote access Virtual Private Network (VPN).
- Unified Communications (UC).
Our Agile Connect Platform powered by Nuage Networks from Nokia provided our customer with a single integrated solution and support interface for centralised management, increasing simplicity and reducing cost.
As SD-WAN technology was still at an early stage and our customer was one of its pioneering users, they valued our experience and expertise. They also appreciated being able to take a co-innovative and risk-sharing approach during deployment.
The result
Enhancing user experiences with lower costs
The customer now enjoys the benefits they’d hoped for when they created the business case in 2017.
The organisation now has:
- an integrated solution to replace expensive MPLS with an overlay network using low-cost internet connections
- a pure service with no upfront hardware investments
- a 45%+ reduction in cost
- an 80%+ improvement in latency
- a 200%+ increase in bandwidth
- a cloud-native network
- an architecture designed with automation in mind to reduce human error.
