Case Studies
Dark Fiber
Overview
Our client is a global financial institution with revenue in excess of $7B annually, and operations in over 20 countries worldwide.
Challenge
Provide higher levels of network availability and better network performance between their primary and secondary datacenters. Their current provider, a large MPLS carrier, was providing latency that exceeded their tolerance. This made some applications not work properly. Extended installation times would also impede business operations, with some installations delayed by months.
The organization set goals of cutting costs by a minimum of 15%, and renegotiate better terms with their service with providers.
Solution
Given the proximity of the datacenter locations, along with the amount of current and projected network demand, Swyft recommended a Dark Fiber ring between sites. Swyft was able to leverage assets from a large fiber wholesaler, along with a local municipality, to provide routes with no common point of failure.
Results
Swyft helped the client reduce latency from 5 ms to under 1 ms RTD. We also doubled the amount of capacity, and put the customer in a position to implement additional connectivity at their leisure since they were no longer dependent on a 3rd party to turn up circuits.
Cost Reduction
Eliminating the operational expense of their previous provider gave an ROI on their Dark Fiber network in less than 4 months, with monthly operating costs reduced by 78%.
Process Improvement
Removed the complexity of dealing with a large telecommunications provider and gave our client the freedom to install circuits between their most critical sites in hours as opposed to weeks or months.
Risk Management
Customer incurred minimal network downtime by ensuring the fiber was tested property before being handed over, and migrations transpired according to best practices.
Scalability
Customer increased capacity from 8x10G to 2x100G, with available capacity to implement 6x100G in a short duration of time.
Wavelengths
Overview
Our client is an industry leading Pharmaceutical and research institution with operations globally.
Challenge
Implement a global genomic research platform between key sites in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Their incumbent provider, one of the largest MPLS carriers in the world, could not provide them with a solution that gave the performance and diversity required between sites.
Solution
Considering the needs for low latency and big bandwidth, Swyft recommended wavelengths as the underlying technology. In order to provide the same uptime levels as an MPLS service, Swyft did a thorough audit of the providers to ensure their sub-sea and terrestrial paths were 100% diverse. Swyft was then able to depict this diversity in the form of logical diagrams and route maps, giving our client full transparency into the solution being purchased.
Results
Swyft helped the client achieve the fastest routes between continents possible, and ensured their backup connectivity remained physically diverse. Swify also increased network capacity by 10x.
Cost Reduction
Transitioning from a traditional MPLS provider directly to the fiber owners allowed Swyft to implement a very robust network with much more capacity for 58% less than their previous provider.
Process Improvement
Removed the complexity of dealing with a large telecommunications provider and gave our client the benefit of faster circuit installations along with a much lower cost/Mb.
Risk Management
Swyft helped our client manage the install by instructing providers which circuits should be installed 1st, and identifying sites with dependencies.
Scalability
Customer increased capacity from 22x1G, 6x100M, to 28x10G. Client can have additional capacity installed within 30-45 calendar days.
Ethernet
Overview
Our client is a higher Educational institution with locations across the United States.
Challenge
Evaluate services with existing MPLS provider. Client was not happy with the existing terms in conditions in their master agreement, and believed their spend should be reduced by approximately 30%.
Solution
After analysis Swyft recommended an alternative MPLS provider. The alternative provider had a better correlation of assets and the client's locations than their incumbent provider. This gave the benefits of lower costs and better visibility into circuits, since their incumbent provider was leasing much of the network from multiple 3rd parties.
Results
Swyft helped the client save 52% on their monthly WAN expense, and negotiated more favorable terms and conditions in their master agreement.
Process Improvement
Improved SLA's since the new provider will own much of the provided network, and will have full visibility into all circuits. Previous provider was not supporting the network entirely on their infrastructure, and many aspects were not proactively monitored. The client had to inform their carrier when service was down on many occasions.
Scalability
With future growth in mind, Swyft recommended 10G NNI's at key locations on the client's network to ensure growth will be seamless.
Cloud Connectivity
Overview
Our client is a multi-national specialty manufacture with operations in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Challenge
Much of their equipment in their primary and secondary datacenters was coming end of life. Needed to assess if another equipment refresh was the best solution.
Solution
Swyft suggested to consolidate primary datacenter via hyper-converged solution, and eliminate secondary site entirely by carrier-grade cloud solution. Swyft leveraged its relationships to provide our client with a Colocation solution in a Tier III facility. In order to maintain the uptime reliability as its previous architecture, Swyft sourced connectivity to Amazon Web Service's Central and East regions while maintaining 100% diversity from each other.
Results
The client was able to save more than $6M on an equipment refresh, eliminated $1.9M in operational expenses, and freed up a significant amount of space that can be re-purposed for alternative operations.
Process Improvement
Nearly 100% uptime with hybrid cloud solution. Reduced datacenter footprint by more than 70%. Cloud solution will offer more flexibility and scalability as they grow or modify their technology strategy.