Case Study: Admiral Beverage Corporation achieves reliable, redundant, high‑bandwidth and secure connectivity with Ecessa

Large Pepsi bottler Admiral Beverage overcomes rural Internet service issues with Ecessa’s SD-WAN solution

Admiral Beverage Corporation, a beverage producer and distributor with 35 locations across nine states, faced severe WAN limitations: many sites ran on a single 1.5 Mbps line, had no redundancy, poor broadband availability at remote warehouses, and concerns about secure data transport. IT Director Jim Hill needed an affordable, compatible solution to increase bandwidth, add failover redundancy and secure VPN connectivity, and selected Ecessa and its PowerLink® platform to meet those needs.

Ecessa deployed PowerLink devices to combine multiple low-quality links into a single higher-capacity, reliable “pipe,” provide seamless failover, and terminate VPN tunnels for secure, company-wide connectivity (including VoIP and cloud voice). The solution lowered costs versus the prior provider, allowed phased rollouts, materially improved uptime and redundancy so outages are often unnoticed, and enabled rapid VPN-based work‑from‑home access during the pandemic — demonstrating clear operational and security gains for Admiral Beverage.

Admiral Beverage Corporation

Jim Hill

Director of IT