Case Study: Stephens Support Services achieves unified, secure, and compliant wired & wireless network management with Extreme Networks

Enabling a Growing and Increasingly Sophisticated Customer Base

Stephens Support Services, the IT arm supporting Stephens’ brokerage, holding company and hospitality businesses, faced the challenge of securing a diverse, mobile and virtualized environment while providing seamless wired and wireless access — even during disaster recovery failovers — and meeting bi-annual regulatory audits. To address these needs they turned to Extreme Networks, implementing solutions such as the Secure Networks Policy framework, unified wired/wireless management and Extreme’s DCM (Data Center Management) capabilities.

Extreme Networks delivered a single management platform with core routing, distribution switching, unified edge wireless, compliance/security tools and DCM to bridge server, network and storage teams. The result: Stephens can fully use DR for virtualization, simplify twice-yearly audits, centrally apply changes across business units and support 10x business growth over 15 years without increasing IT headcount; network analysts spend less time troubleshooting and end-user productivity and network reliability have measurably improved thanks to Extreme Networks.

Stephens Support Services

Mattew Mcewen

Vice President