Case Study: Leading Aerospace And Defense Company achieves 80% latency reduction, 2× bandwidth increase and 20% net savings with Equinix

Leading Aerospace And Defense Company - Customer Case Study

A leading aerospace and defense company with more than 80 years in avionics faced performance and cost limits from a legacy MPLS/VRF single‑provider WAN: vendor lock‑in, poor scalability, rising bandwidth demands, higher latency for latency‑sensitive apps, and constrained business continuity and project agility.

The firm deployed Equinix Performance Hubs — a carrier‑neutral, regional hub‑and‑spoke architecture with colocation POPs and a private Ethernet backbone that lets sites connect via the best regional circuits. Results: user‑to‑data latency fell from 46 ms to under 10 ms (≈80% / 4x improvement), average bandwidth rose from 336 Mbps to 829 Mbps (>2x), overall connectivity costs dropped ~56% on average, and the program was self‑funding with a 20% net savings while improving resiliency and user experience.