While expanding globally through a series of acquisitions, Measurement Specialties faced "seriously degrading network performance" according to Bob Andreini, Global Director of IS/IT.
Virtela's carrier-agnostic Global Service FabricSM architecture integrates and optimizes best-in-class local, regional and global networks worldwide to ensure that communications between Measurement Specialties' diverse locations are routed over the highest-performing network at any given time.
Virtela Communications, Inc.+1.720.475.4445info@virtela.comwww.virtela.com
Customer Case Study
Measurement Specialties, Inc.Measurement Specialties is a global designer and manufacturer of sensors and sensor-based systems. The company's products are used as embedded devices by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or as stand-alone sensors for test and measurement to provide critical monitoring, feedback and control input. Measurement Specialties' sensors measure temperature, pressure, force, position vibration and humidity, and the company's technology is at the heart of many everyday products, such as airplanes, household appliances, and medical equipment. Industry FocusManufacturingThe SituationWhile expanding globally through a series of acquisitions, Measurement Specialties faced "seriously degrading network performance" according to Bob Andreini, Global Director of IS/IT. Internal and external communications and business critical Size2400 employees; applications were affected, and the business suffered as a result. Headquartered in Hampton, Virginia with US offices Measurement Specialties had augmented its original Point-to-Point network with a mix in California, Ohio, and of IP VPN and additional Point-to-Point connections as new locations came on board, Massachusetts; Six so all connections were routed through the company's headquarters in Hampton, international sites in China, VA. As the company grew, the network became fragmented and could not support Ireland, France, Germany, and heavy data transfer and worldwide connectivity, causing such poor performance that Switzerland.downtime was measured in days per quarter and seriously impacted the business. When the network went down, sites around the world lost the ability to process and ship orders and match production to inventory plans. In addition, Measurement Specialties ChallengesSupport corporate expansion sometimes lost all two-way communication for stretches as long as 24 hours, which and improve global hampered customer service and challenged collaboration between globally dispersed collaboration by designing, engineering and product development groups. implementing and managing high-performance network for The situation also put a strain on Andreini and his lean team of 35 staff members, only twelve global sites a few of whom are network engineers. Measurement Specialties frequently had to mediate disputes between the old provider and its partners in other countries before one carrier would fix a network issue, and a number of the staff had to spend extra Solutiontime learning to configure routers to fill a gap in the provider's services. Virtela's fully-managed MPLS network with DSL back up Among Measurement Specialties' needs for a better network were: Bottom Line? Replace degrading hub-and-spoke network with scalable, Virtela replaced days of global network with best-path routing downtime with 99.99% network availability for twelve ? Fully managed solution to allow internal IT staff to focus on sites around the world with strategic business initiatives fully managed network services that have dramatically ? Flexible network architecture to ensure performance reduced strain on IT staff.
? Reduce network downtime with resilient multi-carrier network
? 24x7 committed customer support and expert managementVirtela Communications, Inc.+1.720.475.4445info@virtela.comwww.virtela.com
Customer Case Study
Virtela Solution SMVirtela's carrier-agnostic Global Service Fabric architecture integrates and optimizes best-in-class local, regional and global networks worldwide to ensure that communications between Measurement Specialties' diverse locations are routed over the highest-performing network at any given time.
Virtela provides a single-source solution for all of the company's sites with fast, High-performing network worldwide reliable and secure network connectivity around the globe. Traffic is automatically routed directly over the most efficient path rather than through a hub.Virtela's comprehensive managed services allow Measurement Specialties' Fully managed solution IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives without having to worry about the network infrastructure. Virtela saves Measurement Specialties significant staff involvement, to the equivalent of one to two full-time employees.Business-critical information for production, engineerin... [download for more]
