Case Study: Places Leisure achieves secure, faster site rollouts with Node4 managed SD-WAN

Places Leisure delivers 99.9% booking availability with Node4

Places Leisure, a not-for-profit social enterprise operating over 100 UK leisure centres, faced the challenge of rapidly expanding its network while moving away from legacy on-premises infrastructure. With a small internal IT team, they needed a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution to support growth, improve Wi-Fi, and maintain high data protection standards. They partnered with Node4 to address these challenges.

Node4 implemented a managed SD-WAN solution based on Fortinet technology, delivering templated applications, services, and security to all sites. This resulted in dramatically improved Wi-Fi performance, 99.9% booking system availability, and the ability to deploy advanced safety technology like an AI-powered anti-drowning system. The solution provided consistent security, streamlined the onboarding of new locations, and reduced the burden on the internal IT team, ultimately boosting customer satisfaction and increasing revenue for Places Leisure.

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