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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Challenge
FASTWEB is a leading telecommunications provider in Italy. It offers advanced services
to residential customers and business segments including public authorities, large
companies, small and medium enterprises, professionals, sohos, universities and
research institutions. Fully owned by Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading service provider,
it is also one of Italy’s top fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-cabinet suppliers.
to residential customers and business segments including public authorities, large
companies, small and medium enterprises, professionals, sohos, universities and
research institutions. Fully owned by Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading service provider,
it is also one of Italy’s top fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-cabinet suppliers.
Competitive pressures and changing customer needs mean that the traditional
FASTWEB telecoms business is becoming increasingly competitive, making new
value-added services vital for the company.
FASTWEB telecoms business is becoming increasingly competitive, making new
value-added services vital for the company.
One promising area is the provision of cloud-based services to Italy’s enterprise
market. Italian entrepreneurs have a growing need for IT solutions, but frequently
lack in-house resources to develop and support these. So FASTWEB planned a
range of services to seize the opportunity.
market. Italian entrepreneurs have a growing need for IT solutions, but frequently
lack in-house resources to develop and support these. So FASTWEB planned a
range of services to seize the opportunity.
Solution
FASTWEB realized that improved customer experience, end-to-end control, and
good margins would be easier to achieve if it built its own cloud service delivery
solution. With Cisco Nexus® switching technologies already installed in its primary
data center, the company decided to adopt Cisco Unified Computing System™
(UCS®) B200 Blade Servers as its cloud offering foundation.
good margins would be easier to achieve if it built its own cloud service delivery
solution. With Cisco Nexus® switching technologies already installed in its primary
data center, the company decided to adopt Cisco Unified Computing System™
(UCS®) B200 Blade Servers as its cloud offering foundation.
“We chose UCS because of its performance, reliability, and smooth integration with
other stack components,” says Mirko Santocono, enterprise value added services
product manager at FASTWEB.
other stack components,” says Mirko Santocono, enterprise value added services
product manager at FASTWEB.
Customer Case Study
FASTWEB is making flexible cloud-based services highly affordable for major Italian and public
sector customers
Customer Name:
FASTWEB
Industry:
Telecommunications
Location:
Italy
Number of Employees:
2500
Challenge
• Create new revenue streams
• Enhance customer retention
• Improve market positioning
• Enhance customer retention
• Improve market positioning
Solution
• Cisco Unified Data Center architecture,
including Cisco Intelligent Automation for
Cloud, Cisco Unified Computing System
servers, and Cisco Nexus switching
Cloud, Cisco Unified Computing System
servers, and Cisco Nexus switching
Results
• Enterprise organizations can access
services that were out of reach, and
realize savings of up to 50 percent
realize savings of up to 50 percent
• Customers can set up and configure
data center capacity in minutes
• Entire cloud business launched with
minimal server racks
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