14 US sites connected via SD-WAN, 48% latency drop
Automotive supplier operating across 14 US states — fragmented MPLS contracts, 4-hour SLA requirement for plant operations.
Fourteen plants, fourteen different ISPs, and four different WAN technologies inherited through acquisitions. The network team spent more time troubleshooting than planning.
After two failed RFPs with large SI vendors, the CTO reached out to Axiom. Within 72 hours we had a site survey team at the three largest plants and a preliminary design in hand.
We standardised on a cloud-managed SD-WAN fabric, negotiated dual-ISP contracts for each site simultaneously, and deployed a centralised NOC dashboard with per-site SLA telemetry.
All 14 sites went live within 6 weeks. Average WAN latency dropped 48%. The 4-hour SLA is now contractual and monitored in real time.
The operations director noted that plant-to-plant file transfer times dropped from 14 minutes to under 90 seconds — a change that immediately improved shift-handover efficiency.
Previous vendors quoted 6 months. We deployed SD-WAN across 14 sites in 6 weeks, on budget, with 48% average latency reduction and a single-pane NOC dashboard.