Customer satisfaction is critical for all businesses, particularly when it comes to retail. To maintain high customer confidence, businesses are required to expand branch locations at scale, seamlessly adopt new technologies and offer uninterrupted online services with a better user experience. However, this can be challenging when retailers rely on legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) connections backhauled through corporate Infrastructure.
Industry-leading automotive retailer, AutoNation, realized their current wide area network (WAN) architecture was complex, slow, and often unreliable as MPLS has failed to meet their performance demands – even after moving from T1 to higher-bandwidth fiber connections. To achieve high application performance, reliably and securely, they sought a highly available and cost-effective SD-WAN solution.
With more than 350 distributed locations and a workforce of 22,000 employees, this North American automotive retailer validated multiple networking vendors through a rigorous evaluation process. Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN’s cloud-delivered branch model (combined with the ability to integrate security tightly) proved to be the most cost-effective solution that could deliver improved application performance and Layer 7 granular visibility for AutoNation.
As a result, AutoNation reduced its time to deploy and bring up a branch location by 95%. The flexibility of automating change management after business hours removed operational interruption and planned network outages. AutoNation’s infrastructure team confidently moved forward with the deployment of next-generation SD-WAN from Palo Alto Networks across all branch locations.
With a cloud-delivered branch solution that was able to address all of the varied needs across its infrastructure, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN was able to manage the following use cases for AutoNation:
Adam Rasner, Vice President of Technology Operations at AutoNation said, “Without the network, there is nothing, and that’s why we took our decision to move to Prisma SD-WAN very seriously. With Prisma SD-WAN now we have the highest performing network we’ve ever had, just from the bandwidth change. It gives us the option to introduce more applications into the environment, which is a huge business enabler for us.”
Learn how AutoNation achieved high performance, improved bandwidth availability and reduced their OPEX at the best ROI with Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN.
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