Pacific National

Australian National Rail Operator Conquering the Tyranny of Distance While Halving Annual Networking Costs

Overview

With 3,400 employees and 86 sites across the country, Pacific National represents approximately 70% of intermodal freight traffic in Australia. The company’s bespoke transport management system (TMS) is core to its operations, but the system was supported by a costly private multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network that offered only limited redundancy and low bandwidth. Pacific National needed a more agile and responsive alternative.

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Working with Fortinet partner Ip.Glass, Pacific National deployed a Fortinet SD-Branch software-defined solution that consists of FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), FortiSwitch enterprise switches, and FortiAP wireless access points, together with FortiExtender cellular gateways at sites with 4G and 5G access. The simplicity of Fortinet’s unified management means that Pacific National benefits from granular control and visibility of security and traffic at each site, without impacting network performance. As a result of the project, the company gains a more reliable, robust, agile, cost-effective, and higher bandwidth network for digital innovation.

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“By deploying Fortinet, we are cutting our entire network costs in half. You do not often go to your CFO and say, ‘Actually, we are going to get something better for less.’ And when I say less, I mean that by deploying Fortinet, we have cut our annual network costs in half. All of a sudden, our CFO is really excited about networking.”

– Paul Williams, CIO, Pacific National

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Business Impact

A 50% savings on annual networking costs and a two-year ROI

Improved security posture through granular security controls and greater visibility of network traffic

Improved user experience at remote sites

Improvements in network performance, redundancy, and resilience

Ability to provision connectivity to new sites in days rather than months

Transitioning to hybrid WAN was our business priority as our customers and airport counters need seamless application access connecting with a link that has the lowest latency. Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN solution helps us with application routing, load balancing, performance monitoring and securing our customers data all in a single appliance, which reduces management complexity and delivers significant cost benefits."
- Lalit Gole, Director IT - Networks & Infrastructure, IndiGo

Through the FortiGate NGFW and its FortiOS operating system, we can adapt the security policy for every user-service combination on the ship, and control and monitor everything from a central land-based office.”
- Francisco Abril Hita, Director of IT Infrastructure, Baleària Group

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