Founded in 2003, Focus is recognised by Deloitte as one of Europe’s fastest growing and most successful tech companies and is one of only twenty Cisco UK Elite Partners delivering digital transformation projects across the globe.
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6. Hybrid WAN Simplifies Retail
Branch Networking for Brewers
Featuring one-click provisioning, PCI compliance
and in-store WiFi connectivity, Brewer’s intelligent
and scalable SD-WAN infrastructure paves the way for
seamless in-store shopping experiences
Executive Summary
Customer Name: Brewers | Location: United Kingdom | No. of employees: 3,000 +
The Challenge:
To create a scalable, secure & compliant network providing an omnichannel experience
for customers, across more than 150 sites.
The Solution:
Full-stack Meraki infrastructure enabling enterprise grade wireless & security for retail customers,
suppliers and staff, all traversing across a brand-new SD-WAN, PCI compliant network.
The Results:
The new SD-WAN infrastructure has decoupled Brewers from their ISP enabling instant
configuration changes to be made without the need of involving the provider and a long and
expensive change control process. The highly flexible and easy-to-configure platform provides
a highly responsive network that can cope with fast service activation and provisioning, while
delivering the end-to-end security and performance.
Why Focus?
Focus act as a seamless extension of our team – and
they’ve been invaluable in enabling us to make more
intelligent decisions and make our future vision a reality.
James Cawthorne, IT Operations Manager, Brewers
7. Honda Gets Connected with Focus
Industrial-strength global wireless environment
delivers mission-critical communication between
things, machines, databases, people and beyond.
Executive Summary
Location: United Kingdom | Number of Employees: 3000+
The Challenge:
Maintaining 24x7 continuous operations across the complex 370-acre industrial campus while
delivering mission-critical site-wide resilient communications. Connecting IoT devices that are
transforming manufacturing systems and processes through a high-density wireless mesh.
The Solution:
370-acre site-wide high-density wireless mesh centrally monitored, managed and secured through
Cisco’s Identity Services Engine.
The Results:
Europe’s largest enterprise mesh network to be implemented, transforming connectivity across the
entire site for people, devices, IoT end-points and machines. Underpinned by Cisco’s powerful ISE
platform, the client is now able to automate and enforce context-aware security access to its network
resources and fully manage guest access with customised mobile and desktop portals.
Why Focus?
Knowledgeable, prompt to respond and passionate about
what they do, we’ve come to depend on Focus to enable
and support the innovative connectivity our operations
depend upon.
Alin Prelici, Honda
8. SUEZ’s Data Centre Environment
Delivers Powerful Disaster
Avoidance Capabilities – And More
Executive Summary
Customer Name: Suez | Location: United Kingdom | Number of Employees: 5,500 +
The Challenge:
Providing scalable, agile, resilient & automated Data Centres supporting mobile and collaboration
applications, wireless technologies and interconnected machines.
The Solution:
Cisco Nexus 9000 & 7000 switching platforms built across interconnected Data Centres utilising
Cisco’s Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) technology.
The Results:
A highly efficient & scalable active-active data centre architecture delivering 100 Gb connectivity
and zero downtime.
Why Focus?
Working with Focus was a highly consultative, iterative
process – it enabled us to test concepts with technical experts
and refine the approach we took. The technical know-how of
Focus is seriously impressive – that’s why we selected them as
our strategic partner for the design and specification of the
new data centre environment.
Mike Paglia, MIS Unified Communications
and Cyber Security Manager, SUEZ
9. Cisco HyperFlex simplifies
Ambassador Theatre Group’s
digital transformation
Executive Summary
Customer Name: Ambassador Theatre Group | Location: Global | No. of employees: 3,500+
The Challenge:
Providing a converged, automated compute and storage infrastructure that’s scalable, agile and resilient,
while leveraging existing storage array assets and investment to support digital transformation within the
business.
The Solution:
Cisco HyperFlex – A solution that combines compute, storage, and networking resources into a simplified,
easy-to-use platform. Engineered on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), Cisco HyperFlex
systems deliver the agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud, but with the benefits
of on-premise infrastructure.
The Results:
Simplicity – Complexity of storage and compute infrastructures need to be reduced and simple to
implement and operate. HyperFlex is deployed fast, and managed from a single “pane of glass”.
Availability – HyperFlex provides a resilient real-time redundancy that is configurable and can withstand
critical failures including disk and complete node failure.
Flexibility – The need to be able to tune the infrastructure to a variety of different workloads. HyperFlex
address high compute, high capacity and the ability to add compute only nodes while utilising existing storage
investments.
Efficiency – Cisco HyperFlex delivers an efficient storage platform allowing for deduplication and
compression to take advantage of redundancy. HyperFlex provides an efficient in-line dedupe and compression
that is always on.
Scale – To be able to scale from a small node system to larger clusters without compromise as the business’
demands grow.
Pedigree – Utilising the power of Cisco’s UCS platform & ecosystems.
10. Coty Inc. Gets a
Communications Makeover
World leading beauty company Coty relies on agile
communications solutions that enable secure
modern work environments and an effortless end-user
experience for employees.
Executive Summary
Customer Name: Coty | Location: Europe | Number of Employees: 20,000+
The Challenge:
Providing ‘always available’ state-of-the-art communication and collaboration facilities across the new global HQ offices.
Building a network that enables ‘work anywhere’ and 24x7 global voice, chat and collaboration capabilities for its staff.
The Solution:
A global network comprising of traditional Cisco switching technology mixed with Cisco’s cloud-managed Meraki
switches with integrated security and wireless LAN controllers, optimising performance, simplifying configuration and
management while providing a core infrastructure to support new collaboration applications and tools.
The Results:
A new state-of-the-art HQ workspace including huddle rooms, meeting rooms, and bespoke work-benches with
automated pop-up screens enhancing the way employees communicate and collaborate, built on a global standards-
based, secure wired and wireless infrastructure.
Why Focus?
For almost a decade, Focus has been Coty’s trusted Cisco partner.
Renowned for always getting the basics right, providing considered
advice, offering impressive pre-sales knowledge and its ability to
offer a quick turnaround on quotes and pricing, Coty knows Focus
has the capability and resources required to support its global
operations in a timely manner.
11. Executive Summary
Customer Name: Autovista | Location: United Kingdom | Number of annual visitors: 1,500 +
The Challenge:
To replace an expensive, legacy global WAN, break away from the carrier & gain back control
of the data & on-going management while improving visibility and efficiency.
The Solution:
Cisco Viptela SD-WAN across 20 sites & resilient Data Centres. An ISP agnostic,
cloud-managed SD-WAN platform delivered on Cisco ISR routing technology, Co-Managed
by Focus, around the clock.
The Results:
An intelligent, resilient WAN, cloud-managed & free from ISP process & change request cost.
The new Overlay and Underlay infrastructure have enabled true Hybrid Cloud adoption and
has put back control of the data, assets and management directly with Autovista enabling
changes to be made within minutes, rather than weeks. The Co-Managed service from
Focus provides Autovista the technical backup & knowledge for complex changes to be
made, within a fixed SLA, while still allowing Autovista to control & manage the day-to-day
changes the business require to drive forward.
Cisco Viptela Delivers
Global WAN Transformation
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