Case Study: Goodwyn Mills and Cawood achieves reliable, high-performance connectivity and increased uptime with Windstream Enterprise SD‑WAN

Goodwyn Mills and Cawood - Customer Case Study

Goodwyn Mills and Cawood, a regional architecture and engineering firm with 16 offices and 425 employees, faced unreliable, slow and increasingly complex multi-location networking that disrupted file access, collaboration and recovery. Seeking a managed, cloud-ready approach, they engaged Windstream Enterprise to modernize their WAN and support a cloud migration using SD‑WAN, Cloud Connect, their existing MPLS and cloud-based firewalls.

Windstream Enterprise deployed a fully managed SD‑WAN overlay on top of GMC’s MPLS and cable links, added Cloud Connect and cloud firewalls, and assumed ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting. The result was increased performance and uptime, greater access to cloud apps, and improved productivity—GMC reported 30–40% fewer trouble tickets—and Windstream Enterprise’s managed service freed the IT team to focus on strategic initiatives.

Goodwyn Mills and Cawood

Mario Galloway

Vice President of Technology