Case Study: Gannett Company achieves private‑cloud consolidation and intelligent WAN performance with XO Communications' MPLS IP‑VPN

Gannett Powers Private Cloud with XO MPLS IP-VPN

Gannett Company, a McLean, VA–based media and marketing solutions leader (owner of brands like USA TODAY), needed to consolidate business applications from 250 units into a single private cloud while ensuring long‑term telecom partnership, business continuity, scalability, capacity and survivability. To meet these requirements it turned to XO Communications, deploying XO MPLS IP‑VPN along with XO Applications Performance Management (APM) and XO Hosted Security to provide an intelligent WAN backbone for its private cloud.

XO Communications implemented an integrated solution—XO MPLS IP‑VPN plus APM and Hosted Security—delivering intelligent networking, comprehensive security, and improved application performance visibility. As a result, Gannett Company consolidated its applications, gained flexibility to support live video streaming from anywhere, supported multiple protocols (IP, MPLS, VPLS), improved network visibility and continuity, and lowered costs versus prior single‑circuit options.

Gannett Company

Dennis Lydick

Manager, Data Communications