Fastcom Deploys Extreme Fabric to Power Business Growth and Deliver Differentiated Services

Fastcom is a New Zealand-based managed services provider that specializes in networking, telecommunications, cloud, security, business community, and IT services. Central to Fastcom’s services and solutions is its own MPLS network that operates in both Australia and NZ, interconnecting with a number of primary carriers in both countries.To ensure it could onboard new customers and provision/support networking services both efficiently and cost-effectively as growth accelerated, Fastcom realized that it needed to upgrade its network.

Challenges

• Network automation around a highly complex, reliable, flexible, secure, and scalable IP network
• Ability to embed and automate business rules with zero-touch provisioning
• Efficient and rapid onboarding of new capacity and capability to support customer demands

Extreme Solutions

• Extreme Fabric Connect™
• ExtremeSwitching™ X870 Series and VSP 7200 Series

Results

• Reduced customer onboarding across the network from weeks to days
• Network automation achieved through shortest path routing
• Extreme Fabric Connect enabled significant business growth without having to increase network management resources
• Improved capability and competitiveness to deliver new services quickly and win business