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LAN to WAN Migration

Columbia Artists Management, Inc. (CAMI)

CAMI has been in business for years. Since 1930, the company has been an international leader in managing touring activities of instrumental soloists, opera singers, conductors, orchestras, and other musicians and performers.

Business was good and CAMI eventually outgrew their original office location. A second facility was obtained and plans were in the works to move about 20-30 employees to the new site. But moving the employees was the easy part. What about the telephone and computer systems? How could these be shared so that everyone is singing off the same page?

As a start, CAMI hired BraveLine Technology to address the problem of extending current telephone and computer systems to the new location without long-term interruption or the need for redundant on-site technical staff.

There were three primary challenges:

Equipping the remote facility so it could share the existing PBX-based phone system.
Extending the company's LAN (Local Area Network) to a WAN (Wide Area Network) due to the physical separation of the two offices.
Designing a new "fail-over" scheme in the event of hardware and/or connectivity problems.

BraveLine Technology analyzed the situation and implemented the following solutions:

Installed a T-3 circuit and router system between the main and remote offices to allow sharing of the PBX phone system.
Routed WAN traffic through virtual IP addresses to reduce maintenance costs and security overhead.
Deployed four individual T-1 lines and configured them to provide a connectivity backup in the event of a service interruption.

Today everyone at CAMI is singing off the same page... just like many of their Clients.