Case Studies

Private Cloud Infrastructure

Enabling Government Efficiency With Innovative Technology Solutions

Business Challenge

IT Business Continuity - especially for key county personnel
Aging legacy infrastructure causing lack of flexibility, scalability, and was expensive to maintain
Unable to support IT-as-a-Service

BlueWater Solution

vBlock platform from VCE to enhance operational productivity, while reducing overall costs
VDI solution from VMware to enable secure remote access from any device, anywhere

Added Business Value

Increased user productivity through VDI with secure remote access
Rapidly improved the time needed to provision servers for new county applications (from weeks to just hours)

IP Telephony

Leading Day Trading and Hedge Fund: New York, NY

Business Challenge

The Client was moving locations and needed to select a vendor or vendors for their voice and data solutions.
Their criteria involved: cost, system functionality, redundancy, ease of use, and overall network quality.
Interested in finding a solution that would allow them to provide partial Turret functionality. This would allow them to migrate away from costly Turret systems for users who did not require their full functionality
Competition involved: Nortel, Avaya, Mitel

BlueWater Solution

Presented unified communications solution that resides upon a solid, Cisco infrastructure. The configuration consisted of: Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unity, Cisco Fax Server, Cisco Unified Mobility, Cisco Voice Gateways, Cisco Phones, Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 4500 switching.
BlueWater customized the Cisco Unified Communication Manager and IP phone configuration to provide ring down functionality on the IP phones to provide Turret like functionality..

Added Business Value

The presence of ring down functionality on the Cisco IP Phones allowed the client to eliminate 90% of the Turrets from their environment saving significant acquisition and ongoing operational support costs.
BlueWater was able to clearly differentiate the value of their solution and demonstrate its knowledge of the financial services arena, particularly in the area of Trader Turrets.
Through a customized leasing solution, BlueWater was able to provide the client with a fully supported solution over the next 5 years covering all equipment over the entire solution and product lifecycle.

The client today transacts all business with its clients and brokers through a converged IP enabled network built upon Cisco solutions.

Mobility

Major Raceway and Casino

Business Challenge

As horse racing has declined in popularity the Client was seeking a way to drive revenues. Their strategy was to transform from solely a racing destination to a year round gaming entertainment destination.
By establishing the closest gaming establishment to a major city and metropolitan area, they needed a solution to quickly and efficiently handle the beverage and food ordering of tens of thousands of patrons daily and link it into their inventory control system.
They needed a reliable, redundant, scalable, and secure network infrastructure that can support a player tracking system which operates 24x7x365, tracks valuable assets, provides security consistent with State Gaming regulations, and enables quick transactions to minimize patron down time.

BlueWater Solution

BlueWater implemented a wireless solution built upon a Cisco infrastructure throughout the gaming facility
BlueWater designed and installed a Cisco switched infrastructure which connected to the wireless network, the player tracking systems, the inventory control system, the asset tracking system via RFID, and digital signage.

Added Business Value

This solution allows food and drink to be ordered from anywhere in the facility, and instantly wirelessly transmitted to the bar or kitchen for preparation
This greatly reduces the time between ordering and serving, and maximizes the time patrons can enjoy the entertainment.
The vast amount of time saved also effectively cuts costs and increases profits by allowing the facility and its employee's greater efficiency.
Digital signage and advertising throughout the gaming floor run on IP enabled devices which seamlessly connect to the Cisco infrastructure.

The solution was able to incorporate the raceway's applications on a common infrastructure, which is supported and maintained by a single IT group.

Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

Global Executive Recruiting and HR Services Firm

Business Challenge

The Client has over 30 offices throughout the world accessing applications and data in New York and London data centers over Wide Area Network links. They would like to improve the performance of TCP based applications operating over the WAN.
As a long term strategy the customer is considering costs savings associated with consolidating branch office IT infrastructure into the data center while also improving data protection by eliminating the need for tape backups at remote offices.
Competition involved: Riverbed, F5, Citrix

BlueWater Solution

Performed a pilot of the Cisco WAAS solution in a bake off against the competitors.
The configuration consisted of: Cisco WAE 612s in the NY and London Data Centers, Cisco WAE 512s in the remote office locations, and use of the WCCP protocol on Cisco Catalyst switching.
BlueWater offered a Global solution by designing a Global WAAS infrastructure solution, creating project plans and configuration specifications, and handling global logistics to fulfill products for the US, Canada, and European sites .

Added Business Value

BlueWater was able to clearly differentiate the value of their solution architects and demonstrate its knowledge of data center networking technologies, particularly in the area of WAN optimization.
The WAAS solution enables the client to continue to consolidate costly branch-office servers and storage into centrally managed data centers, and deploy new applications directly from a data center, while offering LAN-like application performance for remote users.

Campus Wide Wireless with Network Access Control

Distributor of Healthcare Products and Services

Business Challenge

Limited collaboration due to lack of mobility within campus supporting over 2000 employees.
Timely Help desk support required for consultants and visitors to gain access to wired network resources.
Very concerned about Security risks with campus wide rollout of wireless.
VIP's including Investors and Board of Directors require access to corporate resources on frequent basis.
Competition involved: Aruba Networks.

BlueWater Solution

Presented a End to End Cisco Wireless Solutions that resides upon Cisco infrastructure wrapped in Cisco Clean Access Solutions
The configuration consisted of: Cisco Access Points, Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, Cisco Location Appliance, and the Clean Access CAM and CAS servers.
BlueWater performed a complete Site survey to optimize the placement of the Access Points. This was a crucial first step as the organization will be deploying WIFI enabled IPT handsets where coverage and density is critical.
BlueWater delivered site survey placement Maps and Heat Maps to highlight placement of Access Points and direction of frequency.
BlueWater created configurations for LAN controllers, Access Points, Location Appliance and Clean Access solution as well as created test procedures.
BlueWater worked with the IT staff to design an automated guest access solution which performs a posture check on user's machines prior to allowing Network Access.

Added Business Value

BlueWater was able to clearly differentiate the value of their solution and their their team with the seamless integration into Active Directory. In house users enjoy the flexibility of single sign on either wired or wireless access.
BlueWater was able to assist with design of the Guest User Page privileges and make recommendations on Best Practices.