Case Study: Rentokil Initial achieves an agile, scalable network and up to 3,000% more bandwidth at 50% of the cost with VMware NSX SD-WAN

Rentokil Initial Underpins Growth with Agile Network

Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 100 pest‑control and hygiene services company with 37,000 employees across 73 countries, needed a consistent, scalable way to capture, analyse and share IoT and cloud application data across mature and emerging markets while keeping bandwidth costs under control. The company sought a simplified network that could be rolled out locally without specialist skills to support its 1,800 local service teams and 10,000 mobile devices.

Rentokil deployed VMware NSX SD‑WAN by VeloCloud to standardise and simplify its corporate network, centralise management and enable local rollouts by non‑IT staff. The solution delivered a robust, dynamic and scalable network that cut costs and increased capacity—providing up to 3,000% more bandwidth at about 50% of the cost in some sites—while making future innovation and faster application deployment possible.

Rentokil Initial

Ed Higgs

Director of Global Service Delivery