Growing Business Leverages Internet to Achieve Enterprise Class Wide Area Network
Growing Business Leverages Internet to Achieve Enterprise Class Wide Area Network
3 Pagesmultapplied.net The Company was at a crossroad regarding their network infrastructure. Many years earlier, like most multi-branch enterprises, the Company decided to build a private network using a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) data service. Their MPLS Wide Area Network (WAN) needed to connect more than 2,400 employees at 51 manufacturing branches and Corporate HQ. The Company’s MPLS network, while tolerable, struggled to keep up with the Company. For instance, when new branch facilities were added, getting the branch’s MPLS network operational took months due to coverage issues at remote sites. Adding to the frustration, MPLS was cost prohibitive: the price to connect some sites was up to ten times the price of typical Internet connections. As a result, fo
