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Customer Case Study
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Beverage Company Quenches Thirst for Wireless
Constellation Brands deploys a Unified Wireless Network to mobilize employees
and guests.
Business Challenge
Founded in 1945 as a small producer of fine wines,
Constellation Brands is now the second-largest
beverage alcohol company in the United States. It is
also the largest wine-producing company in the
world, by volume. With more than 250 beverage
alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries
and production facilities all over the world, the
company has gross sales of more than US$5 billion
annually.
In the spring of 2006, Constellation moved its
Barton Brands division to a multitenant office
building in Chicago. Barton’s office covered four
floors of the building, and the company’s two-person
network administration team was in charge of
providing ubiquitous Wi-Fi coverage to all four
floors. Employees needed to be able to carry their
laptop computers between meetings on different
floors, without losing their connection to the
corporate network. The company also wanted to
provide Wi-Fi Internet access to its guests:
suppliers and potential customers who might need
to check in with their own home offices.
Security is a concern for every wireless network administrator, but it is a larger concern for
networks that reside in large cities, because stealing nearby Wi-Fi signals is an easy and
commonplace practice among city residents who do not want to pay for Internet access. Urban
networks also are prone to frequent attacks by unauthorized users.
“With regard to the wireless Internet access for guests, we did not want it to be wide open and
free,” says Marty Bognanno, manager of network infrastructure for North America at Constellation.
“We are in a shared tenant building, and we did not want everyone else in that building to be able
to jump on our network.”
Constellation also had to consider the fact that there would be no on-site network administrator at
the Chicago office. “I am the network administrator for all North American operations, and I have
only one employee,” Bognanno says. “We needed a network we could manage remotely, from our
New York headquarters.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CONSTELLATION BRANDS
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Production and distribution
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Headquartered in Fairport, New York
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10,000 employees
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
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Provide wireless access to the corporate
network in the company’s Chicago office
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Provide wireless Internet access for guests
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Manage the network remotely, from company
headquarters, with a staff of two
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Protect business systems from frequent
attacks by unauthorized users
NETWORK SOLUTION
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Unified Wireless Network from Cisco provides
remote management and superior security
features
features
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Cisco Wireless Location Appliance helps to
pinpoint rogue access points
BUSINESS RESULTS
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Small staff can manage the network remotely
without having to hire onsite contractors or
additional employees
additional employees
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Employees can roam among floors without
losing a network connection, which increases
productivity during meetings
productivity during meetings
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Automated site survey tools save hours of
planning time
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