Arlington Orthopedics Replaces Carrier-Managed SD-WAN Service Branch Appliance Elimination • Secure Cloud-Based SD-WANConnectivity • Affordable MPLS Alternative Challenge: How to Run Lean George McNeill, and Still Deliver Agile, E昀昀ective Director of IT Security and Networking About Arlington It’s an all too familiar problem: IT is called to support more users and Orthopedics deliver more services without increasing budget. With MPLS and firewall appliances that might have seemed like mission impossible. Arlington Orthopedic The sheer complexity of the traditional network infrastructure almost Associates, P.A. is one of the largest orthopedic practices requires IT to maintain networking and security specialists on staff, in North Texas. The company not to mention an extensive investment in infrastructure, limiting cost was looking to nearly double reductions and constraining efficiencies. its regional network, growing But new technologies, such as SD-WAN as a service (SDWaaS) and from three Texas locations — the main office in Arlington firewall as a service (FWaaS), are enabling IT to operate far leaner and branches in Mansfield than ever. Just ask Arlington Orthopedics where the network nearly and Irving — to five locations, doubled in size without having to expand its IT team. adding offices in Midlothian and Odessa. The existing locations had firewall It was obvious to me that I had to focus my resources. appliances connected I needed my infrastructure to be as lean as possible. by 100 Mbits/s, layer-2, This way we could invest in business analysts or other MPLS connections (VPLS). customer-facing roles and technologies not internal IT Internet-bound traffic was backhauled to Arlington, roles, such as networking and security specialists.” which had a 100 Mbits/s Internet connection secured by another firewall appliance. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Healthcare 11