AGC生物学keeps supply chains moving across global manufacturing operations with network assurance of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN
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客户背景信息
AGC生物学is a leading global biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with facilities in the U.S., Denmark, Germany, Italy, and Japan committed to delivering the highest standard of service in solving complex health conditions, specializing in fast-track projects and rare diseases.- Vertical: Biotechnology & Manufacturing
- 地点：美国西雅图，华盛顿州
- 客户规模：三大洲的1,900多名员工
Use Case
Improve WAN resilience and mitigate latency across wide geographic distances to ensure smooth supply of materials in critical biotech manufacturing processes.
要求
- 在MPLS和OpenVPN之间启用快速，自动故障转移
- 克服延迟，以加速全球网站之间的大文件的运动
- Optimize application traffic to improve performance
Outcomes
- Improves application performance, enabling files to load in seconds instead of minutes
- Elevates quality of experience and productivity for business, warehouse and production staff
- 消除了由于运营商衰退或带有自动，子毫秒电路故障转移的停机时间
- Helps keep material supply chains moving to meet strict manufacturing timelines
- 减少时间从小到几小时部署边缘设备，为更多的战略商业项目释放它的工作人员
AGC生物制剂为世界上一些最具挑战性的人类医疗病症和疾病提供了世界救生处理，包括Covid-19。该公司的高度复杂和时间敏感的细胞增长过程依赖于准备好进入集中托管原材料。任何网络连接丢失都可能会破坏访问并停止整个危重过程。
David Beach，Systems Architic for AGC生物学，备注，“如果我们在德国的设施失去了WAN连接，他们无法访问库存或痕量样本。随着每隔几个小时增加新材料的大型生物反应器中的细胞，情况可能会导致丢失了几个月的批量来重新生成和成本耗费数百万美元。“
Connecting Multinational Manufacturing Operations
One of the largest contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) in the biotechnology industry, AGC Biologics is continually expanding through new acquisitions and opening new facilities around the world.
每个新位置都带来了基于哺乳动物和微生物治疗蛋白，质粒（细胞内的特殊DNA分子），病毒载体递送方法和基因工程细胞的更广泛的生物制剂（药物）的额外能力。所有这些发展和制造管道也使AGC生物制剂对其挽救救生团体至关重要。
的老用户,银湾最优化达到顶峰n, Beach saw SD-WAN as the logical next step to support increasing business demands and turned to Aruba (formerly Silver Peak).
“我们的MPLS网络和OpenVPN隧道的延迟正在减缓我们仓库工作人员的关键过程，这些过程对我们的原材料供应链带来了对制造业的影响，”海滩说。“搬到Aruba SD-WAN的一个关键原因是获得网络恢复力和交通优化，以及在一个统一，集中管理平台上的WAN加速度的性能更高。”
Improves Application Performance, Resilience
Beach and his team deployed theAruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN EDGE平台在AGC生物制剂的全球地点并实施了可选Aruba Boost WAN optimization性能包。EDGeConnect设备也使用WAN Edge的现有下一代防火墙进行服务，从而实现每个设施的安全本地突破。
Many of AGC Biologics' most critical applications are hosted on premises in Seattle, WA, including Microsoft Dynamics for finance and inventory management, and SharePoint for document sharing critical to industry and government regulatory compliance. Other essential applications such as an electronic document management system (EDMS) and laboratory information management system (LIMS) are cloud-based SaaS services.
由于EDGeConnect平台提供的子毫秒电路故障转移，由于MPLS或OpenVPN链路上的衰落或中断，业务用户将不再损失对这些关键应用程序的访问。海滩报道称SD-WAN和WAN加速的组合也对应用程序性能和员工生产力产生了重大影响。“而不是一分钟半来下载电子表格，现在需要几秒钟。人们不只是在等待屏幕刷新。”
Life-saving implications
Beach points out that saving seconds and minutes per person on every interaction with a critical system adds up to a lot of valuable time. "When someone in our warehouse tried to pull up inventory, they would often get kicked off the system because the session timed out. That doesn't happen anymore, which provides greater assurance that materials get into manufacturing to meet our production timelines."
时间对于生物制药至关重要，因为原材料和代理必须保持在非常具体的环境条件下。消除延迟有助于将这些组件材料保持在适当的范围内并可用于生产制造。
In some cases, timing can have life-saving implications. For example, AGC Biologics is producing a new COVID-19 vaccine for Novavax in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to soon immunize the nation's military personnel. Another product, a blood coagulation treatment, must be at hand for patients taking next-generation blood thinners so they stop bleeding if they are involved in an accident.
Significant Time-Saver for Small IT Team
Beach and his team also gain time back in their day, thanks to the ease of centrally managing the SD-WAN through theAruba Orchestrator.管理控制台。“通过单一的玻璃窗格对整个SD-WAN进行了解，使生活更容易像我们这样的小型IT部门，”海滩说。
He adds, "Being able to make changes anywhere across the SD-WAN within a single console is a significant time savings. Instead of hours to set up a device as in the past, we can set up an EdgeConnect appliance in a few minutes. It frees up many hours for us to work on other important projects for the business."
最重要的是，拥有统一的WAN优化的Aruba SD-WAN提供了海滩信心，即它可以提供在支持AGC生物制剂的跨国制造业务方面发挥这种关键作用的网络服务。他的结论是，“在其中，我们的工作是我们确保每个人都能获得所需的数据，当他们需要它时。Aruba SD-WAN帮助我们达到这一承诺。”
Within IT, it is our job to make sure that everyone has access to the data they need, when they need it. The Aruba SD-WAN helps us live up to that commitment.
David Beach，Systems Architect，AGC生物学 -
客户背景信息
AGC生物学is a leading global biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with facilities in the U.S., Denmark, Germany, Italy, and Japan committed to delivering the highest standard of service in solving complex health conditions, specializing in fast-track projects and rare diseases.- Vertical: Biotechnology & Manufacturing
- 地点：美国西雅图，华盛顿州
- 客户规模：三大洲的1,900多名员工
Use Case
Improve WAN resilience and mitigate latency across wide geographic distances to ensure smooth supply of materials in critical biotech manufacturing processes.
要求
- 在MPLS和OpenVPN之间启用快速，自动故障转移
- 克服延迟，以加速全球网站之间的大文件的运动
- Optimize application traffic to improve performance
Outcomes
- Improves application performance, enabling files to load in seconds instead of minutes
- Elevates quality of experience and productivity for business, warehouse and production staff
- 消除了由于运营商衰退或带有自动，子毫秒电路故障转移的停机时间
- Helps keep material supply chains moving to meet strict manufacturing timelines
- 减少时间从小到几小时部署边缘设备，为更多的战略商业项目释放它的工作人员
AGC生物制剂为世界上一些最具挑战性的人类医疗病症和疾病提供了世界救生处理，包括Covid-19。该公司的高度复杂和时间敏感的细胞增长过程依赖于准备好进入集中托管原材料。任何网络连接丢失都可能会破坏访问并停止整个危重过程。
David Beach，Systems Architic for AGC生物学，备注，“如果我们在德国的设施失去了WAN连接，他们无法访问库存或痕量样本。随着每隔几个小时增加新材料的大型生物反应器中的细胞，情况可能会导致丢失了几个月的批量来重新生成和成本耗费数百万美元。“
Connecting Multinational Manufacturing Operations
One of the largest contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) in the biotechnology industry, AGC Biologics is continually expanding through new acquisitions and opening new facilities around the world.
每个新位置都带来了基于哺乳动物和微生物治疗蛋白，质粒（细胞内的特殊DNA分子），病毒载体递送方法和基因工程细胞的更广泛的生物制剂（药物）的额外能力。所有这些发展和制造管道也使AGC生物制剂对其挽救救生团体至关重要。
的老用户,银湾最优化达到顶峰n, Beach saw SD-WAN as the logical next step to support increasing business demands and turned to Aruba (formerly Silver Peak).
“我们的MPLS网络和OpenVPN隧道的延迟正在减缓我们仓库工作人员的关键过程，这些过程对我们的原材料供应链带来了对制造业的影响，”海滩说。“搬到Aruba SD-WAN的一个关键原因是获得网络恢复力和交通优化，以及在一个统一，集中管理平台上的WAN加速度的性能更高。”
Improves Application Performance, Resilience
Beach and his team deployed theAruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN EDGE平台在AGC生物制剂的全球地点并实施了可选Aruba Boost WAN optimization性能包。EDGeConnect设备也使用WAN Edge的现有下一代防火墙进行服务，从而实现每个设施的安全本地突破。
Many of AGC Biologics' most critical applications are hosted on premises in Seattle, WA, including Microsoft Dynamics for finance and inventory management, and SharePoint for document sharing critical to industry and government regulatory compliance. Other essential applications such as an electronic document management system (EDMS) and laboratory information management system (LIMS) are cloud-based SaaS services.
由于EDGeConnect平台提供的子毫秒电路故障转移，由于MPLS或OpenVPN链路上的衰落或中断，业务用户将不再损失对这些关键应用程序的访问。海滩报道称SD-WAN和WAN加速的组合也对应用程序性能和员工生产力产生了重大影响。“而不是一分钟半来下载电子表格，现在需要几秒钟。人们不只是在等待屏幕刷新。”
Life-saving implications
Beach points out that saving seconds and minutes per person on every interaction with a critical system adds up to a lot of valuable time. "When someone in our warehouse tried to pull up inventory, they would often get kicked off the system because the session timed out. That doesn't happen anymore, which provides greater assurance that materials get into manufacturing to meet our production timelines."
时间对于生物制药至关重要，因为原材料和代理必须保持在非常具体的环境条件下。消除延迟有助于将这些组件材料保持在适当的范围内并可用于生产制造。
In some cases, timing can have life-saving implications. For example, AGC Biologics is producing a new COVID-19 vaccine for Novavax in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to soon immunize the nation's military personnel. Another product, a blood coagulation treatment, must be at hand for patients taking next-generation blood thinners so they stop bleeding if they are involved in an accident.
Significant Time-Saver for Small IT Team
Beach and his team also gain time back in their day, thanks to the ease of centrally managing the SD-WAN through theAruba Orchestrator.管理控制台。“通过单一的玻璃窗格对整个SD-WAN进行了解，使生活更容易像我们这样的小型IT部门，”海滩说。
He adds, "Being able to make changes anywhere across the SD-WAN within a single console is a significant time savings. Instead of hours to set up a device as in the past, we can set up an EdgeConnect appliance in a few minutes. It frees up many hours for us to work on other important projects for the business."
最重要的是，拥有统一的WAN优化的Aruba SD-WAN提供了海滩信心，即它可以提供在支持AGC生物制剂的跨国制造业务方面发挥这种关键作用的网络服务。他的结论是，“在其中，我们的工作是我们确保每个人都能获得所需的数据，当他们需要它时。Aruba SD-WAN帮助我们达到这一承诺。”
Within IT, it is our job to make sure that everyone has access to the data they need, when they need it. The Aruba SD-WAN helps us live up to that commitment.
David Beach，Systems Architect，AGC生物学
