Case Study: ŠKODA AUTO achieves uninterrupted production and faster service deployment with Extreme Networks' Fabric Connect

Digital Transformation Efforts Powered by Network Automation, Simplicity, Security, and Intelligence

Škoda Auto, a leading Czech automaker with more than 30,000 employees and a growing product portfolio, faced an outgrown and overly complex network spanning its main manufacturing sites, assembly plants and remote offices. To support increased deliveries and continuous manufacturing uptime, the company needed to consolidate multiple physical networks, reduce operational risk, and simplify management through automation — a challenge it addressed with Extreme Networks by deploying Extreme Fabric Connect (alongside ExtremeAnalytics and Extreme Management Center).

Extreme Networks virtualized Škoda Auto’s infrastructure, automating fabric provisioning and unifying disparate networks into a single, logically separated network managed from one pane of glass. The deployment eliminated unplanned outages since 2013, cut time to create virtual networks from a day to about an hour, reduced service outage resolution time by 50%, improved IT productivity, and mitigated financial and operational risks to production.

Škoda Auto

Josef Saska

Head of IT infrastructure