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Enterprise Network and Wireless Modernization for a Global Manufacturing Enterprise

Discovery, design and delivery converged - a consistent global campus and wireless architecture across 200+ sites.

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Enterprise Network and Wireless Modernization for a Global Manufacturing Enterprise - architecture illustration
Enterprise overview

Global manufacturing enterprise

200+
Sites
2,500+
Switches and APs

A global manufacturer operated 200+ sites with campus and wireless designs that had diverged over years of acquisitions and organic growth.

The Problem

Campus and wireless architecture had drifted apart.

Design drift

Every site reflected a different design philosophy.

Slow root-cause

Investigations spanned multiple tools and teams.

Manual discovery

Inventory relied on tribal knowledge.

The Zappsec Solution

Automated discovery and one global architecture.

  1. 1
    Automated discovery

    Programmatic inventory and topology across sites.

  2. 2
    Global architecture

    One campus and wireless design applied consistently.

  3. 3
    Modern operations

    Telemetry-driven operations replaced tool-hopping.

Architecture

Reference architecture at a glance

One global campus and wireless architecture - discovered, designed and operated from a single pattern.
One global campus and wireless architecture - discovered, designed and operated from a single pattern.
Outcomes

Outcomes that changed the operating model

60-80%
Faster root-cause analysis

Telemetry-driven operations replaced tool-hopping.

200+
Sites on one design

Design drift replaced by a single reference architecture.

Network operations shifted from site-by-site firefighting to enterprise-wide engineering.

Technologies and platforms

The stack behind the transformation

CiscoArubaTerraform

Related Zappsec capabilities

Networking

Campus, SD-WAN, data center and hybrid cloud networking as one architecture.

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