Projects

Some projects require rethinking the direction and making adjustments, some minor and some require taking a full inventory of the departments affected by a proposed change in business practices. The LANIS Group is positioned to offer this advice on either a local lever or multinational approach. Below are a couple of projects our team members have advised on and the results benefited by our Clients.

After experiencing 10 years of phenomenal growth and success, a major pharmaceutical company, a multi-billion Fortune 100 company and the world’s largest and most successful biotech pharmaceutical company, had a challenge. As the fastest growing company in the United States, the rapid pace of change in information technologies, compounded by the unbridled deployment of new applications and services, was putting tremendous pressure on the global network. The existing network was being pushed to the limits, and the multi-vendor environment was increasingly hard to manage.In order to scale and meet the challenge, a new network was needed. This network would have to provide the capacity, reliability, scalability, security and efficiency that would satisfy the demands of 25,000 plus computing devices worldwide, as the company continued to grow organically and acquire other biotechnology companies.

Funding was approved, and a team was assembled to tackle the challenge. The goal was to design and implement a new single-vendor network (with minimal exceptions) that would support all existing and future data, voice and video applications, and provide a much-needed boost in performance and capability. In addition, it had to be deployed transparently with virtually no downtime.

The entire program was a huge success. Ahead of schedule and under budget, with virtually no downtime, the team replaced hundreds of routers and switches, and upgraded cabling and fiber. All access, distribution and core layer connections were increased by an order of magnitude. New inventory management, monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting capabilities were introduced and distributed globally. Supports for traffic shaping, quality of service, multicast and applications prioritization were implemented. And finally, a completely new enterprise network test lab was created to test and support future applications development and new network services.

As a result, the company was positioned for future expansion, growth and in a cost effective approach. This network design enhanced the bottom line while not sacrificing creativity, deliverables and profit to the investors.