Case Study: Lionakis builds a resilient, failover-ready network with Bigleaf Networks

Lionakis restores connectivity in 9-hour outages with Bigleaf Networks

Lionakis, a century-old architecture and engineering firm, faced significant business disruption due to unreliable internet connections. After a nine-hour ISP outage, IT Director Matthew Onken sought a solution that provided automatic failover without the high cost and complexity of BGP. The firm needed to maintain its existing Cisco firewall and, most critically, preserve its static IP addresses regardless of the internet provider, a challenge their previous manual setup could not solve.

Bigleaf Networks implemented its internet connectivity solution, which provided seamless automatic failover and load balancing. The key benefit was that Bigleaf's static IP block remained with the device, not the ISP, allowing Lionakis to change providers without any application reconfiguration. The results were immediate; Bigleaf eliminated downtime and provided unexpected visibility into connection health, leading to proactive fixes. The solution also cost roughly half of the BGP alternative, making the investment an easy justification for management.

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