Case Study: Baltimore Aircoil Company achieves 60% cost reduction, better voice & video quality, and increased agility with Cato Networks

Baltimore Aircoil Replaces MPLS with Cato, Improving Voice Quality, Enabling Video Conferencing, and Increasing Agility

Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC), a global manufacturer of cooling towers with 20 sites across Europe, North America, Russia, China, Australia and South Africa, was hampered by three separate MPLS networks that were expensive, low on bandwidth, inconsistent in firewall control, and slow to adapt. These limits caused poor VoIP/video quality, long delays for site relocations, fragmented troubleshooting, and weak visibility and control over security — driving BAC to look for an alternative and evaluate Cato Networks.

Cato Networks replaced BAC’s global MPLS, remote access and security appliances with a single converged Cato solution (including Cato SDP and centralized Event Discovery), giving one-pane-of-glass visibility and real-time control. The deployment cut network costs by about 60%, increased bandwidth (e.g., Australia 20→50 Mbps, Milford CA 10→50 Mbps, capacity gains up to 5x), improved voice/video quality, enabled large-scale remote work during COVID-19, and allowed instant QoS and traffic-priority changes that dramatically sped troubleshooting and site changes.

Baltimore Aircoil Company

Michael Devogelaere

BAC IT Manager Infrastructure