CASE STUDY
SIX DEGREES ENABLED FISHER JONES
GREENWOOD TO ADOPT A HYBRID
CLOUD SOLUTION BY PROVIDING THE
FIRM WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES
(AWS) DIRECT CONNECT.
Issues finally came to a head when Fisher
Jones Greenwood opened a new office that
was connected by a point-to-point network,
which failed to perform.
Carr explained: “As a law firm, we need our
solicitors to always be available and our IT
infrastructure to be resilient; the network
we were relying on was simply not meeting
this basic expectation. Furthermore, we were
also not getting value for our money, so we
started to look for a reliable single supplier.”
Solution
Fisher Jones Greenwood engaged with Six
Degrees while looking for a reliable and cost-
effective provider. Carr said: “Six Degrees
presented the best fit for us as it not only
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demonstrated abilities to keep up with our
growth, but also had a mature portfolio of
services that best suited our requirements.”
Six Degrees provides MPLS connectivity and
SIP telephony to Fisher Jones Greenwood’s
five office locations on the Six Degrees’ Next
Generation Network (NGN). Six Degrees
L3VPN service addresses Fisher Jones
Greenwood’s need for a multi-site solution
and to keep traffic flowing 24x7x365. The
L3VPN service runs across Six Degrees’ NGN,
which is completely resilient across the core
nodes with the ability to re-route in less than
50 milliseconds.
In addition, Six Degrees enabled Fisher
Jones Greenwood to adopt a hybrid cloud
solution by providing the firm with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect as an
extension of the existing MPLS network. The
firm has also been able to move its in-house
unified threat management system, Redscan,
off-premise because Six Degrees can provide
direct connectivity via its MPLS network.
Carr commented: “Six Degrees has proved
time and again that it is flexible to our
needs. The most recent example of this was
the seamless third-party integration with
Redscan that has brought great benefit to us
and our clients.”
Result
Fisher Jones Greenwood and Six Degrees
work together to ensure that the firm’s data
and voice communications are reliable and
efficient, guaranteeing they provide the best
service to clients.
Carr concluded: “Because Six Degrees
manages all our connectivity for us,
provisioning new services and office
locations is much simpler. Six Degrees’
end-to-end approach manages the sales,
provisioning and circuit handover in a highly-
professional manner. This same end-to-end
ethos carries through to the NOC teams
monitoring our communications network,
providing us with early warning to any
potential disruption.” n
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