Starting point
The link between head office and branches depended on a single firewall and a single internet line. Any fault would have hit every site.
What we built
A redundant firewall cluster of two devices with automatic takeover on failure, plus line redundancy through a second internet connection. Failover scenarios were tested together with the customer: loss of one device, hardware fault, complete loss of one line, interruption of the network link.
Result
In testing the second instance took over each time and the link between head office and branches stayed stable. The dependency on a single firewall or line is gone.
More references
Central camera system with network segmentation
Security staff access the cameras they are cleared for from one place, recordings are retained correctly, and video traffic no longer loads the data network. An incident in the camera segment does not spread to other segments.
Corporate ITDisaster recovery across two sites
Critical systems keep running at the second site in an emergency. Downtime and the risk of data loss are significantly reduced, and the dependency on a single site is gone.
Corporate ITPhysical servers virtualised (P2V)
The hardware dependency is gone. Backup, restore, migration and resource management now run through the virtualisation layer instead of hardware appointments.