Case Study: South Carolina Federal Credit Union achieves 50% reduction in processing fees and a high-performance MPLS network with Extreme Networks

Network Investment Returns Limitless Business Opportunities for South Carolina Federal Credit Union

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, which serves more than 160,000 members across South Carolina, needed to attract digitally savvy younger customers and support a wave of new member-focused services while preparing for VoIP and heavier application traffic. To meet those needs it partnered with Extreme Networks and deployed an advanced MPLS network with 10 GbE performance using Extreme NetIron MLX-32 Series routers, Extreme Data Center switches and Extreme IronView Network Manager.

Extreme Networks’ solution—an MPLS core and high‑capacity aggregation—allowed South Carolina Federal to move outsourced services in‑house, improve application performance, and add videoconferencing across branches. The credit union cut third‑party processing fees by 50%, saving about $250,000 in the first year, reduced travel costs and time, and positioned itself to bring online banking and other services internally (with potential additional savings near $1M annually).

South Carolina Federal Credit Union

Brad Williams

Chief Technology Officer