AboveNet IT Solutions

Overview of Hitachi Consulting:

As Hitachi, Ltd.'s global consulting company, with operations throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT strategies and solutions to Global 2000 companies across many industries. With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, we work with companies to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement practical business strategies and technology solutions. From business strategy development through application deployment, our consultants are committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI. Hitachi Consulting's client base includes 25 percent of the Global 100 as well as many leading mid-market companies. We offer a client-focused, collaborative approach and transfer knowledge throughout each engagement.

For more information, visit www.hitachiconsulting.com.

Business Need:

Hitachi Consulting needed a high bandwidth network to connect four data center sites in Dallas, Texas. In the past, they had no easy method for failover from their primary site to secondary sites including their Corporate headquarters and primary data center location. They needed a scalable solution that would provide them with control of the data on their network.

The network redesign would also enable them to provide auditors with proof that they had the capability to failover and redirect traffic.

Why Hitachi Consulting Chose AboveNet:

AboveNet’s established expertise in providing robust, high bandwidth connectivity made it an obvious choice as the partner to work with to help redesign Hitachi Consulting’s network. AboveNet is able to provide the network that links Hitachi Consulting’s key locations and an expanded level of control and security that they had not had before.

Hitachi Consulting was also impressed with the AboveNet’s professionals. The AboveNet Sales and Operations teams were able to provide a number of different options for designing the network. As a result, Hitachi Consulting was able to choose the network option that best suited their needs. Additionally, AboveNet’s flexibility meant they were able to offer these options at an affordable price.

AboveNet Solution: Hitachi Consulting is using the AboveNet eMesh solution.

Benefits include:

• Layer 2 multipoint connectivity between four Hitachi Consulting locations using Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).
• Fiber handoff provides scalability for higher bandwidth.
• Ethernet handoff viewed as secure.
• Can transport any Layer 3 protocol Hitachi Consulting uses.

Business Benefits

Hitachi Consulting is able to manage how they deliver traffic from their carriers to the primary and DR data centers. They are no longer dependent on third parties to manage the traffic. They have access to their data and a level of control and reliability that they had not had before.

AboveNet’s expansive footprint in the Dallas area and major metro markets across the U.S. also means that Hitachi Consulting can easily scale their high bandwidth network to meet the growing business demands.

About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet, Inc. provides high bandwidth connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among top U.S. and European markets. AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government.