Major New Zealand Logistics Provider Boosts Branch Communications with Fortinet SD-WAN
One of New Zealand’s largest fully integrated logistics providers, Fliway has trucks on the road, across the country, around the clock. Its 450 staffers at 13 branch locations and 6 warehouses needed reliable, secure connectivity. But they were increasingly frustrated by a patchwork of legacy equipment and an expensive MPLS-based managed wide area network.
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Fliway turned to Fortinet to create a high-performance fibre-based WAN, anchored by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at the edges of the distributed branch networks. The SD-WAN solution supports additional 4G links, both for automatic failover and for rapid deployment of networks for temporary depots. Now, Fliway’s network stays reliably up, while its connectivity costs have come pleasingly down.
Watch Now“With all those benefits and advantages over the previous managed WAN, perhaps the most astonishing result is the significant reduction in overall cost. Fliway’s bills have been reduced by more than 50%, while delivering all-around improved performance and reliability.”
– Kevin Rowland, Chief Information Officer, Fliway
Much greater flexibility, performance, and reliability compared to legacy systems
No more downtime of critical network services due to built-in 4G failover
Improved security
By deploying Fortinet, we are cutting our entire network costs in half. You do not often go to your CFO and say, ‘Actually, we are going to get something better for less.’ And when I say less, I mean that by deploying Fortinet, we have cut our annual network costs in half. All of a sudden, our CFO is really excited about networking.”
- Paul Williams, CIO, Pacific National
Some of our larger barges carry 200+ people, and we have to ensure a minimum guaranteed quality of service for everyone on board, even with very limited overall bandwidth. Fortinet made this easy to achieve, and the results were amazing. There was an immediate increase in client satisfaction reported through our feedback portal and a massive 65% drop in user support tickets.”
- Wadie Farah, ICT Manager, Zakher Marine International
With all the SD-WAN and security processing integrated into a single platform, the price-performance of the Fortinet solution is unbeatable, but it is the Fabric Management Center that has made the biggest difference to our day-to-day network and security operations. With broad visibility from our remote network endpoints right into our data center and even into the cloud, we can see network and security issues as they arise and resolve them in a fraction of the time it used to take.”
- , Communications and Networks Engineer, African Airline
