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DG

“Since deploying a Cisco Unified Fabric environment in our data centers, productivity for the networking staff has gone up 46 percent. Customers and staff are much happier with the network performance after our upgrade to Cisco Nexus Series Switches, and we’ve reduced the number of tickets in our help desk queue by 75 percent.” Mark Williams, Manager of Network Engineering

• Industry: Advertising, entertainment, and broadcast

• Employees: 2000

• Location: 77 offices worldwide

• Services include streaming media, 3D video support, end-to-end delivery of digital advertising content, and online media distribution

• Increased global footprint by 500 percent over the last 2 years

• Oversees 75 percent of market share for syndication and 96 percent for commercials

• Theater: Americas, EMEAR, and AP/J/GC

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Accelerate network speed to provide advanced digital services

for customers

• Scale network capacity to handle network growth

• Reconcile disparate networks by standardizing on a single vendor platform

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco Nexus Series Switches and Cisco data center solutions

offered a holistic approach to upgrading switches, routing, and firewalls for worldwide network

• Outstanding performance and rapid set up of Cisco Nexus switches accelerated rollout and support ongoing demands for DG services

BENEFITS• Reduced switch deployment time from hours to minutes

• Increased network speeds up to 5 GB, eliminating slowdowns and poor network performance

• Improved IT staff productivity by 46 percent

• Enhanced network availability for 24/7 service delivery

CISCO NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco Nexus 5548 Switches

• Cisco ASR 1002 Aggregation Services Routers

• Cisco ASA 5585 Adaptive Security Appliances

• Cisco Unified IP Phone 7942

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager

• Applications: VMware

• Storage: EMC Isilon