Case Study: Signature Consultants achieves 99.99% uptime, 2–3× bandwidth and cost savings with XO Communications' MPLS IP‑VPN and network services

One of the Best Staffing Firms Finds a Better Network

Signature Consultants, a national IT staffing firm with more than 2,000 consultants and 22 offices, faced fragmented carriers, legacy phone systems, and inconsistent performance across locations. After a pilot, Signature Consultants selected XO Communications to provide a unified MPLS IP‑VPN solution, deploying XO® IP Flex with VPN along with hosted security, application performance monitoring, network‑based firewalls, and Enterprise SIP.

XO Communications built an MPLS‑based fiber network and Enterprise SIP to connect voice, data, and Internet across all sites, delivering redundancy, load balancing, and centralized management. The deployment produced measurable results for Signature Consultants — about 2–3× the bandwidth at roughly 80% of prior costs, 99.99% uptime, improved failover and stability, and the ability to expand into new cities while allowing IT to focus on adding business value.

Signature Consultants

Chris Tyrell

Chief Information Officer