CASE STUDY

Assuring Compliance with Design and Implementation Best Practice for a Financial Institute

Project Scope

Network Quality Assurance for a huge financial institution to assure compliance with design and the implementation of best practices.

Customer Setup Overview

Our customer is one of the key players in the finance market with a huge financial statement. Its network setup consists of big Headquarters containing the mission critical services connected to many remote offices via a global service provider. The network infrastructure is built mainly using Cisco Data Center, Routing & Switching and Security products and technologies.

Business Challenge

  • Ensure high-level performance and improve the responsiveness of the voice and video applications running on the network’s infrastructure.
  • Ensure that the configurations of the network devices are compliant with the vendor’s best practices.
  • Develop and deploy a standard for the design and configuration of the different network segments.

How We Helped

During the Quality Assurance project, our team utilized their deep technical and business expertise to:

  • Review the implemented network design against best practices and the vendor’s recommendations.
  • Review the configuration of the network devices.
  • Identify issues and propose relevant recommendations.
  • Perform a review of existing network documentation and highlight areas for improvement.
  • Develop a design and implementation standard to be followed.
  • Deploy the agreed on recommendations and configure the network devices to achieve configuration standards and consistency.

Benefits for Business

We assisted the customer to gain the following benefits:

  • Decrease the TCO by getting the most of the network infrastructure.
  • Develop justifiable financial plans.
  • Increase the network availability, reliability, scalability and security.
  • Minimize network outages by complying with the design and the implementation of best practices.
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