Case Study: Oil Country Tubular Goods Steel Manufacturer achieves resilient, cost-saving network modernization with Bluewave Technology Group

Oil Country Tubular Goods Steel Manufacturer Moves to SD-WAN

Bluewave Technology Group helped the Oil Country Tubular Goods Steel Manufacturer, a leading producer of OCTG for U.S. and Canadian drilling markets, address an outdated MPLS wide area network with limited redundancy. The customer needed a highly resilient, high-performing network to support 24×7 manufacturing operations while also freeing a short-staffed IT team from time-consuming maintenance work.

Bluewave Technology Group designed a next-generation hybrid network with SD-WAN, including cloud-based firewall management, active/active routing, and highly redundant dual links. The new solution also reduced costs by more than $50,000 annually by moving off MPLS, and Bluewave later added a battery-less Bluetooth low-energy asset tracking solution to improve inventory tracking, shipments, and employee safety.