BUSINESS OBJECTIVE: LEAVING LEGACY LIMITATIONS TO EMBRACE FUTURE GROWTH After three decades of purchasing network infrastructure from an industry icon, this global aerospace giant finally tired of the ever-escalating CapEx and OpEx costs associated with the once-innovative legacy network equipment provider it relied on to build out its wide-reaching enterprise network. Two other issues also factored heavily in the decision to move to open networking and effectively disengage with a long-term partner. First, the organic onslaught of mobile, IoT, and cloud services data at the access-edge was overwhelming the legacy three-tier architecture provided by the company’s existing vendor. Meeting future growth necessitated a sea change to a more modern architecture. Second, service and support

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