Banca Popolare di Sondrio Enhances Application Performance and Management With SD-WAN

Banca Popolare di Sondrio is a 151-year-old bank in Italy, one of the oldest financial institutions in the country and a leader in the cooperative banking movement. The bank employs nearly 3,000 people across 500 branches and a digital presence, offering services to individuals, businesses and public organizations.

Challenges

• New digital services required high-performance connectivity across a distributed footprint
• Lack of WAN visibility across the organization
• Network performance issues were difficult to identify and remediate

Extreme Solutions

• ExtremeCloud™ SD-WAN (formerly Ipanema)
  

Results

• Banca Popolare implemented new management policies that give them instant insight into how applications and services are performing at every site connected to the WAN
• Performance alerts are both highly-targeted and granular, providing IT teams with the right information so they can quickly identify, assess, and troubleshoot issues
• Deeper visibility and insight into network performance gives Banca Popolare the confidence to add capacity and plan for future support of digital services to better meet business goals