Case Study: PARDA Federal Credit Union achieves faster, more reliable, lower-cost networking with Ecessa WANworX

Ecessa helped Points West migrate from an expensive MPLS solution, to SD-WAN, saving money and increasing network speed between branches

PARDA Federal Credit Union, a 10‑location banking organization, needed to replace an expensive, high‑latency MPLS network that was causing dropped VoIP calls and poor virtual desktop performance. CIO Anthony Steffens sought an SD‑WAN full‑mesh solution and selected Ecessa, deploying their WANworX® product to address the performance and cost issues.

Ecessa provided planning, pre‑configuration, and guided deployment of WANworX®, enabling load balancing, automatic failover, granular traffic shaping and static routing for heavy camera traffic. The result: PARDA eliminated its 1.5 Mbps MPLS, provisioned 10 Mbps fiber at branches and 50 Mbps at HQ, achieved lower latency and never‑down reliability with zero‑impact cutover, eliminated dropped calls, improved application responsiveness, and saved thousands of dollars annually — all credited to Ecessa.

PARDA Federal Credit Union

Anthony Steffens

Chief Information Officer