Case Study: Stolt‑Nielsen Limited achieves a future‑proof, simplified, lower‑cost global WAN with VMware NSX SD‑WAN

Future-proofing the Network with SD-WAN

Stolt‑Nielsen, a London‑headquartered transportation and logistics company with about 2,200 employees across 40+ offices in 30+ countries, faced rising costs, rigid management and long lead times from its MPLS‑centric WAN. The company needed a future‑proof network that guaranteed consistent access to core applications (Office365, Skype for Business, file replication), supported changing traffic patterns from a more decentralized IT model, and allowed rapid integration of new sites from mergers and acquisitions.

Stolt‑Nielsen partnered with Videns and deployed VMware NSX SD‑WAN by VeloCloud—migrating all branches to a cloud‑centric design with NSX SD‑WAN Orchestrator, Cloud Gateways and Edge devices using zero‑touch provisioning. Within three months 40+ sites were moved (new sites now take hours or days), bandwidth and user experience improved, management complexity and costs fell, security and end‑to‑end visibility increased, and the network became scalable and easier to extend for future growth.

Stolt-Nielsen Limited

Daan Muizer

Global Service Delivery Manager