Case Study: Wright-Pierce achieves a sustainable, manageable SD‑WAN and reliable global collaboration with Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD‑WAN

Wright-Pierce Builds Sustainable WAN with Global Collaboration Using Prisma SD-WAN

Wright-Pierce, a Topsham, Maine–based engineering firm with more than 70 years’ experience in water, wastewater, and infrastructure projects, struggled with a fragmented, multi-vendor WAN that made deploying sites, troubleshooting, and maintaining high availability difficult. The unreliable network caused frequent connectivity problems (including weekly firewall reboots) and hindered global collaboration on large CAD files and cloud tools like Microsoft 365; the firm wanted to simplify transports to point-to-point Ethernet and direct internet and regain predictable application performance.

By deploying Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD‑WAN across all locations, Wright-Pierce consolidated its WAN into a manageable, application‑centric fabric with cloud‑delivered management, end‑to‑end visibility, and policy-driven controls. The result: eliminated recurring connectivity issues, improved resource utilization and high availability, reliable performance for Panzura and SaaS applications, and a single interface that dramatically simplified network operations.

Wright-Pierce

Robert Marsh

I/T Director