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Customer Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name: Pirelli
Industry: Automotive
Location: Italy
Company Size: 38,000 employees
CHALLENGE
● Improve efficiency and time to market
● Reduce costs and unproductive work
● Reduce costs and unproductive work
practices
SOLUTION
● Collaboration platform based on Cisco Unified
Communications, Cisco TelePresence, and
Cisco WebEx
Cisco WebEx
RESULTS
● Greater access to people, information, and
expertise
● Faster decision-making with more
opportunities for innovation
● Time and expense saved on travel
Leading Tire Maker Boosts Competitive Position
Pirelli Opens Collaboration Opportunities for Improved Teamwork and Speed to
Innovation, with Parallel Productivity Gains
Innovation, with Parallel Productivity Gains
Challenge
One of the world’s top five tire manufacturers, Pirelli has 22
production plants globally with a commercial presence in 160
countries. In its quest for a majority share of the premium tire market,
the company decided to improve collaboration across its organization.
Giuseppe Fiorentini, telecommunications director at Pirelli, says,
“Face-to-face meetings are an important part of our culture, but
“Face-to-face meetings are an important part of our culture, but
frequent international business trips were becoming tiresome and
hampering our decision-making. We were also seeing rises in travel
costs and unproductive time.”
costs and unproductive time.”
Solution
Eager to explore an alternative to physical meetings, Pirelli brought in
Cisco
®
partner Dimension Data to carry out a transformative
networking assessment. This served as the basis for a network
refresh, designed to give Pirelli one of the most advanced
collaboration platforms in the industry.
The platform’s foundation is an enterprise network using Cisco Catalyst
®
6509 Switches for core Layer 3 switching,
with Catalyst 3750, 3500, and 2900 Series Switches in the distribution layer. This infrastructure supports a wireless
network comprising more than 1000 access points worldwide, managed through Cisco 5500 Series Wireless LAN
Controllers, and a broad range of videoconferencing endpoints.
“People can engage and innovate: anywhere, any time, on any device.
Cisco collaboration makes it easier to exchange ideas, pool resources,
and unlock business intelligence.
Cisco collaboration makes it easier to exchange ideas, pool resources,
and unlock business intelligence.
”
— Giuseppe Fiorentini, Telecommunications Director, Pirelli