Case studies

The work

Anonymized engagements across WAN, data center and campus, on three continents.

80-site branch SD-WAN program

WAN & SD-WAN

Challenge

Retire legacy firewall and WAN at ~80 branches while keeping critical enterprise and partner services reachable.

What we did

Firewall, circuit, VLAN and NAT discovery; SD-WAN architecture; dual-Internet TLOC design; pilots; production migrations; failover testing.

Result

A repeatable per-site migration method that moves each branch onto the same template.

Global routing remediation

WAN & SD-WAN

Challenge

Inconsistent routing across ~500 APAC locations on regional DMVPN, MPLS/IPVPN, Internet WAN, global data centers and AWS.

What we did

BGP architecture, route preference and failover design, lab-validated before production.

Result

A ten-phase program from discovery through operational handoff.

Greenfield VXLAN/EVPN fabric

Data Center

Challenge

A next-generation data center fabric for a large global enterprise.

What we did

Dual spine, ~20 leaf switches, 100G spine-to-leaf, BGP EVPN control plane, Nexus Dashboard and NDFC, Palo Alto integration and dedicated OOB.

Result

Delivered from architecture through production; since expanded with more leaf and OOB capacity.

Ashburn brownfield modernization

Data Center

Challenge

Replace the core of a live facility without losing AWS and Azure connectivity.

What we did

New Nexus production switching, Palo Alto L3 aggregate Ethernet at 100G, a dedicated Nexus OOB core and per-rack management switching.

Result

Detailed runbooks covering prerequisites, SVI and OOB migration, validation and backout.

Enterprise campus refresh

Wireless & campus

Challenge

A full campus lifecycle refresh across switching, wireless and WAN.

What we did

IDF switch replacement, core upgrades, wireless AP replacement and SD-WAN router upgrades, with on-site engineering.

Result

Production cutover completed and supported through hypercare.

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