The Challenge

Costain, the £1Bn engineering services group is continually looking for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of its 200 ongoing national infrastructure projects. With up to 50 Projects mobilising at any one time, the company wanted to improve connectivity for their project teams from day one on site.

Historically project mobilisations have used rapid setup connectivity via cellular services but without a firewall-based final-leg to connect domain users back to the core network. Working in partnership with Onwave’s technical architects, an innovative solution was designed to build “a last hop stage” to connect core systems to each site. This “always on” link to the Group’s core MPLS allows end users to be properly supported as well as having access to all internal enterprise systems, and more importantly, a connection to Costain’s active directory servers.

Our approach

The foundations of the service are built on Peplink’s SD-WAN technology that binds multiple cellular connections to form a secure tunnel back to Onwave’s main data centre. From there all incoming traffic from remote sites is aggregated into a single optimised link and routed through to the Costain’s core MPLS network via a robust site to site VPN IPSEC tunnel.

The solution is professionally delivered and supported by Onwave’s proactive operations team all within a maximum 5 day lead time from point of order.

The result

 

  • Shortened setup lead time
  • Integrated to MPLS Network
  • Simplify WAN provisioning
  • Deliver resilience to remote sites

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