Siemens in collaboration with Orange Business Services has successfully migrated 1,168 of its worldwide locations to a global and secure SD-WAN infrastructure.
Overcoming potential implementation challenges during the pandemic, Orange Business Services, with its technology partner Cisco, has been able to fully deliver one of the biggest SD-WAN deployments in the world across 94 countries.
“We need a reliable and future-proof communications network. It’s a critical business enabler that has to be agile enough to evolve with our business,” said Hanna Hennig, CIO of Siemens.
Hennig said that with the help of Orange Business Services, they were able to successfully complete the massive deployment of Flexible SD-WAN, which delivers decisive advantages for their business and users alike, including a streamlined user experience with dynamic traffic routing for applications as well as dynamic bandwidth allocation.
By consolidating network design and maintenance with Orange Business Services as its digital services provider, Siemens has simplified the management of complex environments and further improved performance and agility.
As more and more applications are hosted in cloud environments instead of on-premise data centres, this required a secure and flexible way for connectivity via the Internet. SD-WAN enabled the switch from traditional access via Virtual Private Networks to internet-based application access.
The seamless and secure SD-WAN coverage provides the foundation for a flexible Siemens security framework. This approach further increased Siemens’ abilities to effectively mitigate, detect and respond to risks.
“Deploying, migrating, and implementing this huge digital transformation project for Siemens and managing their critical global communications infrastructure underlines our end-to-end integrator expertise in delivering large-scale global projects,” said Aliette Mousnier-Lompre, Interim CEO at Orange Business Services.
We have delivered on Siemens objectives by combining SD-WAN technology with cloud-based services and solutions,” said Mousnier-Lompre.
