Procuring, staging and deploying network security across a manufacturer’s U.S. sites

The challenge

A global tire and industrial manufacturer needed to stand up and secure the network at several U.S. sites. Every multi-site rollout carries the same risk: you buy the equipment, plan the cutover, send engineers to the field, and only discover a unit is faulty when it is almost too late, which blows the schedule and the budget. They needed one partner who could own the whole chain: source the right equipment, prove it works before it ships, and deploy it cleanly across sites while their managed service provider kept remote management.

Our approach

1. Procurement from authorized sources: specified and supplied Palo Alto Networks PA-440 next-generation firewalls, Cisco Catalyst 9200L switches and Cisco 9120AX access points, with multi-year licensing, at a fixed fee with travel included and no hourly surprises.
2. Staging and burn-in: racked, configured and burned in the equipment at a VeeMost facility first (a secure location or a general staging office, depending on the customer’s requirements), verifying every unit worked before it left for the field, so faulty hardware is caught in the lab, not on cutover day. When a customer prefers it, we stage on site instead.
3. Multi-site onsite deployment: at each location we unboxed and inventoried by serial number, racked, cabled, powered and labeled per the installation design, verified hardware health, and configured the firewalls (zones, interfaces, NAT and policy) or enabled management access per scope, with site-to-site VPN and security hardening where required.
4. MSP enablement and handover: before leaving each site we verified the customer’s managed service provider could reach every firewall remotely over SSH and HTTPS, then handed over serial numbers, management IPs and an as-installed cabling map.

The solution

VeeMost owned the full chain from purchase to a working, secured network: authentic equipment from authorized distribution, staged and burned in before it shipped, then deployed across the manufacturer’s U.S. sites and handed to the client’s MSP for ongoing management. Because the hardware was proven in the lab first, the field visits were fast and predictable, with no dead-on-arrival units derailing a cutover. A fixed fee with travel included meant no hourly or expense surprises.

Results