Across the U.S., construction professionals know where to go for high-quality building products— Builders FirstSource. This national supplier of professional-grade building materials has 450 locations across the 48 contiguous states and Alaska, including business offices, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities. The company’s remote sites all connect back to a principal data center in Texas for email, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, and internet access, as well as to a second data center in California for point-of-sale (POS) processing. Traditionally, Builders FirstSource relied on MPLS (primarily T1 lines) for its wide-area network (WAN). However, the WAN had become complex and difficult to manage, comprising a patchwork of switches and aging C

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