CASE STUDY
WE NO LONGER
HAVE TO PAY
FOR EXPENSIVE
MPLS LINES AND
WITH OUR OLD
SOLUTION WE
HAD TO SPEND
A LOT OF MONEY
ON CONSULTANTS
– THIS IS NO
LONGER AN
ISSUE FOR US.
What sort of long-term benefits has
the solution provided?
the new solution we haven’t had any
ransomware trouble at all. Since moving
to Barracuda, we directly benefit from the
practicality of SD-WAN as well as enjoying
the peace of mind that comes from knowing
our security is taken care of.
What kinds of efficiencies has the
seamless solution enabled?
We benefit from much more stable
production now and don’t suffer from
network connectivity failures as we did before.
Thanks to SD-WAN, if one Internet
connection breaks down, the other line takes
over. As a result, we are preventing expensive
product downtime and saving a lot of time
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elsewhere too, in both maintaining the
solution and in closing down the lines if we
lost connectivity and restarting them again
when we regained connection.
What security benefits does
visualising and monitoring network
performance offer?
By visualising and monitoring network
performance we are able to get a clearer
overview of our network infrastructure in
operation across the world. Alongside this,
since employing Barracuda’s solutions, we
are able to figure out performance issues
regarding network and latency with ease in
order to quickly resolve them, which was a
big problem with our old vendor.
It’s definitely saved costs. We no longer have
to pay for expensive MPLS lines and with our
old solution we had to spend a lot of money
on consultants – this is no longer an issue for
us. Deploying Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
has saved the business 400,000kr so far.
Furthermore, a considerable amount of our
own time was also spent trying to maintain
the previous solution. With Barracuda,
everything is stable and runs smoothly,
freeing up our time to focus on the projects
that really matter to our business. This allows
us to competitively differentiate from our
competitors.
What does the future security
roadmap look like for Fibertex?
First on the to-do list, we still need to replace
a few of our old firewalls with Barracuda
CloudGen Firewall. When that’s complete,
we will start to look into optimising our set
up further. Additionally, we are looking into
ensuring our setup is more secure, by both
improving user awareness and employee
training, and by implementing a more
holistic security setup with Barracuda Next-
Generation anti-virus. n
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