Case Study: British Car Auctions achieves secure, high-availability, cost-effective European connectivity with Check Point Software (VPN-1 Pro)

BCA’s European network is never “GOING, GOING, GONE” with Check Point security

British Car Auctions (BCA) is Europe’s leading vehicle remarketing company, moving over one million vehicles a year with operations across the UK and multiple European countries. Rapid expansion left BCA needing a secure, high-performance and affordable way to connect its European auction sites to the financial systems and databases hosted in its London data center—and to support a new centrally hosted European auction application—without the high cost of extending a private WAN.

Centric Networks deployed and centrally manages Check Point VPN-1 Pro NG AI site-to-site VPNs, using clustered gateways (ClusterXL) for high availability and performance. The managed solution delivered substantial cost savings versus a private WAN, 24x7 remote management and updates, robust security for financial transactions, reduced IT overhead for BCA, and a scalable platform ready to support the centralized European auction system.

British Car Auctions

Neil Parker

IT Manager