This wide area network (WAN) upgrade supported the RCN's digital transformation, ensuring members and staff can collaborate and access services seamlessly.
CLIENT
Royal College of Nursing
INDUSTRY
Healthcare
SERVICE
Secure Networks
The client
Its goal is to improve working conditions and campaign on issues to raise the profile of the nursing community.
The challenges
RCN needed to upgrade its legacy Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure to a scalable, resilient network that would deliver both a faster performance today and underpin future growth.
Our goal
The outcome
RCN achieved approximately £200,000 in annual savings by reducing costs related to circuit rentals, internet services, and firewall licensing and support.
With 100Mb/1Gb circuits into all sites, the new network model significantly reduced congestion, resulting in a faster, more reliable network that can better support voice and data services.
The new model enables RCN to strategically progress with colocation and cloud adoption, including the ability to move servers to a new cloud environment and expand its own shared data centre.
A centralised firewall service and internet breakout streamline network administration, improving security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
"Nasstar conceived a solution that would address day-to-day challenges as well as our future needs. We can rely on Nasstar to make recommendations that are right for our business because they’ve taken the time to understand it."
Geoff Lewis
Technical Operations Manager
•Royal College of Nursing
