Cisco Catalyst SDWAN PoC

A consulting firm with a central private data center hosts critical internal apps like HR, payroll, and document management. With a growing remote workforce, the firm seeks to enable secure access to internal resources without relying on legacy VPNs, which are difficult to scale and manage securely.

A growing legal services firm employs a hybrid workforce, with attorneys and support staff frequently working from home or while traveling. With sensitive client data at risk, the firm aims to prevent ransomware attacks targeting remote users, without relying solely on endpoint protection or complex VPN infrastructures.

An industrial manufacturer with headquarters and over 20 branches is part of a hub-and-spoke IPSec VPN setup. The manufacturer requires centralized connectivity that is high-performance, secure and is consistent in application performance across a distributed network.

A mid-sized, regional company in the financial services industry relies on dual ISPs to support business operations. As the company aims to maintain a cost effective network experience without sacrificing security it requires to have the right balance.

A mid-sized professional services firm with a distributed workforce increasingly relies on cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Zoom. Employees frequently work from home or shared spaces, accessing the internet directly with limited protection. The company wants to strengthen security for remote users without deploying complex hardware or VPN solutions.

A small digital marketing agency with one office uses a single ISP to take advantage of critical cloud services (email, web hosting and SaaS tools). Their goal is to enhance internet reliability and security, all while keeping IT management as straightforward as possible.

In today's interconnected world, organizations face the challenge of maintaining a consistent, stable, and secure network infrastructure across multiple sites spread across the globe. This case study explores the journey of a government institution that sought a single-vendor solution to address these challenges. By implementing a Hub-n-Spoke IPSec topology and leveraging various features, the institution successfully achieved its goals of network uniformity, optimized security, and efficient administration.

In today's digital age, ensuring the security and resilience of critical operational processes is of utmost importance. This case study focuses on a customer in Finland who sought a solution to detect intrusions and identify malicious traffic within their industrial networks. They desired a proactive approach to cybersecurity, with unparalleled visibility into their Operational Technology (OT) assets and network traffic flows. Additionally, the customer aimed to transmit security posture snapshots to a centralized data center for further analysis by their security analysts' team. Insoft Services, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, offered a comprehensive solution that addressed these challenges while minimizing capital investments.

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, service providers face the challenge of delivering consistent network services and security across multiple data centers, both in major cities and remote locations. This case study explores how a leading service provider in Russia overcame this challenge by implementing Cisco ACI, a software-defined networking (SDN) solution. By adopting Cisco ACI, they achieved a unified network infrastructure, seamless network service provisioning, and enhanced security across all their data centers.

In today's digital age, financial institutions face numerous challenges in ensuring the security and efficiency of their technology infrastructure. This case study explores how a major bank in Turkey successfully overcame these challenges through the deployment of a new-gen SDN Fabric integration across three data centers. The bank also ensured alignment between SDN Fabric and VMware-managed virtual environments, adopted an advanced security model for access control, and committed to meeting PCI DSS standards for data protection.

The Government of Qatar sought to modernize its data center infrastructure to enhance scalability and security while complying with strict security regulations. After careful evaluation, Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) was chosen as the optimal solution to meet these requirements. This case study explores the challenges faced by the government and the solutions implemented using Cisco ACI.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, financial institutions face numerous challenges when it comes to managing their Data Centers. This case study focuses on a financial institution in Russia that sought to overcome various challenges by implementing Cisco ACI as their next-generation Data Center solution. The institution required design and deployment services to address their specific needs and improve their overall network stability, security, and operational efficiency.

In order to thrive in today's rapidly evolving and competitive digital landscape, financial institutions require advanced IT infrastructure that ensures high application performance and availability, while also being efficiently managed at a lower cost.

To streamline operations and reduce expenses, a leading financial institution in Azerbaijan decided to build two data centers and consolidate their IT infrastructure. This case study explores the challenges faced by the institution and the solution implemented to overcome them.

Active-Standby to Active-Active Firewalls: Due to scale and cost considerations, the customer wanted to transition from an Active-Standby firewall setup to multiple Active-Active firewalls. This change would provide redundancy and improve network performance.

Kubernetes Clusters: The customer had Kubernetes clusters present in their data center and required seamless integration and connectivity with their network infrastructure.