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12 sites. 54% off the WAN. Fourteen months without an unplanned outage.

A 12-location Ohio manufacturer replaced legacy MPLS with SD-WAN. Plants and offices across Ohio and Indiana landed on one managed network. WAN cost dropped 54%. Fourteen months after cutover: zero unplanned outages. That is the engagement, not a brochure.

54%
WAN cost cut
A 12-location Ohio manufacturer replaced legacy MPLS with SD-WAN.
12
Sites unified
Plants and offices across Ohio and Indiana on one managed network.
14
Months clean
Zero unplanned outages since the cutover.
Telecom and WAN scope

IT and telecom for Ohio manufacturers

We own carriers, WAN, and voice—the circuits, SD-WAN, and phone estate that keep plants and offices connected. We are not a plant helpdesk and not a generic MSP ticket queue.

Buckeye shops and manages the carrier and connectivity layer: DIA and cable at each address, multi-site SD-WAN, OT/IT segmentation design with the providers we source, and voice cutovers. Plant-floor desktop support, MES admin, and day-to-day IT tickets stay with your internal team or MSP. When you need reinforcement on that side, co-managed IT is adjacent—not a rebrand of this page.

Analog fire, elevator, and life-safety pairs are a different job from WAN. See copper POTS and life-safety in Ohio. For the estate operating system across plants—one inventory, one calendar, one number—see multi-site telecom management.

How those numbers happened

The plant floor is not an office with more dust.

A VoIP system that works fine in a law firm needs a different configuration in a loud facility. OT and IT are not the same network. MPLS that made sense in 2010 is now the line item eating the WAN budget and the reason a new warehouse takes 60–90 days to join.

Office network

ERP, email, video, phones

Cloud ERP and MES do not belong on a congested MPLS tail. SD-WAN prioritizes that traffic, fails over automatically, and gives your internal IT one view across every plant and office.

Plant-floor network

PLCs, SCADA, CNC — kept off corporate IT

OT/IT segmentation is standard in the manufacturing deployments we source. VLAN isolation, next-generation firewalls, and monitored access controls separate the floor from the office without stopping production.

What we source for the floor

Industrial Wi-Fi, private LTE, and an MPLS exit when the math works.

Ohio is the third-largest manufacturing state in the country. Automotive in Toledo, aerospace in Dayton, food processing around Columbus, steel in the Mahoning Valley — all of it runs on connected infrastructure, and most of it is still paying 2010 prices for it.

Manufacturing questions

15-person shop or 500-person operation

Can you connect plant floors and remote Ohio facilities on one network?
Yes. SD-WAN puts plants, offices, warehouses, and distribution centers on one managed network with central monitoring. We hold the carrier relationships at each site so your IT team is not managing a dozen vendor contracts.
How do you handle network security for OT environments?
OT/IT segmentation is standard in our manufacturing deployments. VLAN isolation, next-generation firewalls, and monitored access controls separate plant floor systems from corporate IT without disrupting production.
We are locked in a long-term MPLS contract. Can you help?
Possibly. We audit carrier contracts regularly and find billing errors, unused circuits, and overpayments even on contracts that look locked. We have also helped manufacturers negotiate early exits when the SD-WAN savings clearly beat the exit fees.
Do you work with small manufacturers or only large enterprises?
Both. We work with a 15-person precision machining shop and a 500-person multi-site operation. Smaller manufacturers often gain the most, because nobody has ever negotiated with the national carriers on their behalf.
How do you get paid?
Carriers pay the residual. You pay us nothing directly, every contract is in your name, and we carry no products. That is what vendor-neutral actually means.
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