How a Top Electronics Manufacturer Brought Down WAN Operations Cost by Over 30%

Client background

Client: A leading Asia-based electronics manufacturing company

Industry: Technology

Area of operations: Global

Number of employees: Over 35,000

Challenge

The client had a complex IT network distributed across 40+ countries and managed by over 100 vendors. This made operations very difficult and cumbersome, and resulted in:

• Poor network performance
• High bandwidth costs due to multiple vendors and poor planning of distributed network
• Inability to meet performance demands from network that was needed for cloud adoption and application migration(Office 365, Data Center)
• Lack of insights to efficiently manage and monitor the network

Solution

Wipro, with its consulting framework for network - Insightix^TM, and its extensive experience in large-scale project management, global logistics and vendor management - developed a comprehensive plan for SD-WAN implementation with its #WANFreedom carrier agnostic SD-WAN solution.

• Creation of the business case and documentation of technical recommendations and roadmap for SD-WAN implementation
• Analysis of available SD-WAN options, a recommendation of preferred provider, and proof-of-concept study and sample sites. Wipro leveraged its CoE for SD-WAN for swift execution.
• Analysis of commercial benefit including TCO and ROI for the selected SD-WAN solution: Enterprise scale Cisco SD-WAN
• Consolidated more than 100 service providers to three and streamlined contract management
• Provided SD-WAN as a Service business model

Business Impact

Wipro’s #WANFreedom solution, underpinned by most widely deployed SD-WAN technology – Cisco SD-WAN, enabled the client to transform their legacy network to a secure, cloud-scale and business-aligned network environment.

• Due to vendor consolidation, WAN operations cost reduction by 30%, and another 20% cost reduction is anticipated after complete implementation of solution
• Optimized bandwidth utilization
• Enhanced application experience due to better network performance
• Predictable SLAs for voice, cloud and other critical enterprise applications
• Complete integrated security for on-premise and cloud
• Rich analytics for granular visibility into application and infrastructure that enables rapid failure correlation and mitigation