Case Study: Sunrise Communications AG achieves consolidated IT monitoring and cost savings with Nagios

Nagios simplifies IT infrastructure, increases operational efficiency for Swiss telecom provider

Sunrise Communications AG, Switzerland’s largest telecommunications provider serving over 2.86 million customers, faced a fragmented monitoring landscape after mergers and reorganizations that produced redundant systems, licensing and hardware costs, and obscured overall IT health. To consolidate monitoring, save time and money, and gain a unified view of their infrastructure, Sunrise selected Nagios’ IT monitoring solution.

Nagios implemented a hybrid monitoring architecture using virtual Nagios servers for scalable collectors, two physical servers for centralized monitoring and USB text-alert modems, and extensive use of Nagios plugins and customized check packages to handle varied systems. The Nagios deployment consolidated multiple commercial tools into a single central platform, improved operational efficiency and visibility, and produced measurable cost reductions and lower maintenance overhead (Sunrise reports reduced maintenance costs).

Sunrise Communications AG

Michael Niedermann

Manager, IT Infrastructure Operations