Cisco Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Leaflet
Customer Case Study
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Schenker, Inc, and BAX Global now operate
under the DB Schenker business group of
Deutshe Bahn AG
under the DB Schenker business group of
Deutshe Bahn AG
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Transportation and supply chain solutions
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US Regional Headquarters locations: Freeport
NY and Irvine, CA
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Corporate Headquarters: Essen, Germany
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88,000 employees, 2000 offices, 130 countries
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
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Cut outsourced management costs
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Speed up deployment of VoIP infrastructure in
new offices, and faster turnaround time for
MACs
MACs
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Enable consistent infrastructure configuration
and simplified management of unique
configurations
configurations
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Reliable auditing of changes
SOLUTION
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Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager
RESULTS
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Template-based configuration speeds
deployment of VoIP infrastructure components
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Fewer configuration errors and enforced
consistency greatly shortens troubleshooting
time
time
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Eliminating outsourced network management
saves more than US$150,000 per year
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Allows for real-time interdepartmental
communications and well-informed decision
making
making
Shipping Logistics Company Speeds Unified Communication
Deployment
Deployment
To deploy VoIP services in new offices rapidly and reliably, DB Schenker turned to Cisco Unified
Provisioning Manager.
Business Challenge
With the merger of BAX Global and Schenker Inc. into DB Schenker,
the new business subsidiary of Deutshe Bahn AG was challenged with
migrating many traditional private branch exchange (PBX) networks to
the new DB Schenker voice over IP (VoIP) network.
Challenges included dealing with different voice technologies and
independently managed offices and difficulty finding replacement parts
for the older PBX gear. In the past, each office operated as an
independent profit center and had custom configurations based on
available PBX features and local administrators. It was decided to
collapse the individual voice infrastructures into the Schenker Global
VoIP network, based on Cisco
®
Unified Communications Manager
(UCM), and decommission the older PBX equipment.
The costs to plan out a new site was around US$65K and $15K to
$20K per site to implement. DB Schenker investigated oursourced
voice management and realized the costs and deliverables varied
greatly, with prices ranging from over $150,000 to $225,000 per year
just to manage the first eight sites. A company was settled on to
handle day-to-day MACs for the initial VoIP subscriber base, and DB
Schenker chose to do the infrastructure deployment in-house.
Several things quickly became apparent. There was no enforced
consistency in the way UCM servers were configured when configured
by different installers. This made it difficult to troubleshoot installation
and voice service problems. Deployment pace was slow due to the
amount of manual configuration needed. When MAC changes were
needed, the voice team would have to create a significant amount of
documentation for the outsourced provisioning group. The DB Schenker Voice team could see that better tools were
needed to solve these problems. This need led them to look at Cisco management tools for a better solution.
Solution
Steve Sielaff, senior network engineer specialist at DB Schenker, looked to the Cisco Unified Communications
Management Solution for tools to speed up deployments, bring consistency, and replace the outsourced
management. Two products were purchased and implemented in the DB Schenker VoIP network: Cisco
®
Unified
Provisioning Manager (UPM) and Cisco
®
Unified Operations Manager (UOM).