Cloud first, unified network and security

about Graham & Brown

"We've found the right technology partner to support our network" Dean Morris, IT Operations Manager.

Graham & Brown are a British brand whose principle activities are the design, manufacturing and distribution of wall decoration products to the worldwide consumer market. Its products are sold in over 75 countries through major DIY and Home retailers, supported by a robust distribution network and sales offices across UK, North America, Europe and Australia.

The Challenge

To change the legacy fully managed MPLS network into something that offers more value and better meets our current and future business requirements.

Driven by solutions.

Move towards SaaS applications and public cloud e.g. O365

Migration of on-prem voice to cloud delivered hosted voice

Desire to improve network support service and better equip IT with the ability to support the busines

Need to improve speed, performance and network flexibility

Desire to maintain or reduce the overall costs on network infrastructure

Guided by process.

Network Assessment

From business challenges to application profiles and routing considerations, we considered everything from how the network looked at present to what it needed to deliver moving forward.

Solution Design

Ignoring the legacy network, we took a fresh view, considering all available options and designed an optimal solution based on network assessment facts and customer consultation.

Implementation & Migration

We took ownership of managing the risk, and through careful planning and a phased approached, we migrated the customer onto their new network infrastructure with minimal disruption or provider overlap.

Operational Service

Graham & Brown now benefit from a network which is optimally designed for their cloud delivered applications and ready to support their business, along with 24x7 pro-active monitoring and direct access to a team of network specialists to fix, support, innovate and change in line with business requirements.

Key results.

A modern, dynamic network to support changing user/application consumption.

A specialist, network support team to help IT support their business requirements.

A complete re-design with more bandwidth, improved resilience and more flexibility.

A reduction in overall network costs by circa 20% over 3years

I’ve worked with some of the people at Principle Networks in the past and it always helps when you know and trust the people delivering the service. I was most concerned about the migration but needn't have been, they took care of everything. The team went above and beyond to ensure every aspect of the migration went to plan. Even when we threw in the voice migration at the same time and needed them to adapt to some of the changes we needed, they just dealt with it. As a business, we feel very comfortable that we've found the right technology partner to support our network.

Dean Morris, IT Operations Manager