BANK HOLDING COMPANY IMPROVES NETWORK MANAGEMENT AHEAD OF SCHEDULE CHALLENGE This 150-year-old American bank holding company with $100 billion in assets has a network of 1,100 branches and 2,000 ATM locations. While the WAN solution wasn’t 150 years old, sometimes to the network team and end users it felt like it could be. It was based on a single T-1 connection running a full mesh topology between two data centers over one router. The software and hardware were nearing end-of-support lifecycle status, and it was all the operational staff could do just to keep their noses above water focused on day-to-day support. The organization needed additional network capacity to support the centrally-processed, high-bandwidth, web-based teller platform, a paperless initiative to centralize d

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