Case Study: Points West Community Bank achieves greater bandwidth and resilience with Ecessa SD-WAN

Points West Community Bank boosts bandwidth 10x with Ecessa

Points West Community Bank, a financial institution with 17 branches across Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, faced significant network challenges with its expensive MPLS infrastructure. The single circuit at each location caused frequent outages, while high costs and poor performance from routing traffic through distant hubs degraded critical applications. Seeking greater resiliency and bandwidth, the bank partnered with Ecessa to evaluate and implement an SD-WAN solution.

Ecessa implemented a phased SD-WAN deployment that allowed Points West to maintain its existing security framework while adding dual active-active internet circuits at every location. The solution from Ecessa resulted in bandwidth increases of ten to sixty-six times previous levels, providing full redundancy and eliminating costly MPLS outages. This delivered greater network resiliency, improved application performance, and modest monthly cost savings, preparing the bank for future cloud migrations.

Points West Community Bank