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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 70 INTELLIGENTCIO 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 www.intelligentcio.com