ETEX Case study
Industry:
Manufacturing
Services:
Cloud NetworkingManaged ServicesProfessional ServicesSD-WANVoice/SIP Trunking
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COST REDUCTION
PRIVATE CONNECTIVITY TO APPLICATIONS
DESIGNATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Etex, a global building materials specialist with around 14,000 employees at offices and manufacturing sites around the world.
14,000
EMPLOYEES
2.97B (EUR)
ANNUAL REVENUE (2021)
100+
NUMBER OF PRODUCTION FACILITIES
25
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES

Together with GTT, we have built a strategy to transform and future-proof our global network. . .as well as delivering all the benefits of an agile and resilient managed SD-WAN solution.
Richard Pym – Head of Technology, Etex
THE Testimonial
Do you want to hear the CIO’s view of how Etex, a global building materials specialist, benefits from GTT’s Managed SD-WAN as part of its future-proof global network?
Watch the video to find out how the solution helps achieve Etex’s digital transformation goals through an increase in uptime and bandwidth with a lower total cost of ownership.

The Need
Etex is driving a digital transformation initiative to become a more customer-centric organization. Its goal is to harmonize and improve processes, activities, and collaboration across its business. As it moved to more application-aware networking and greater cloud adoption, bandwidth for many of the company's locations needed to be increased in a secure and agile way, without increasing costs.
Improve efficiency
Harmonize and improve processes, activities, and collaboration across its business
Increase bandwidth
Moved to more application-aware networking and greater cloud adoption
Better support
Harmonize and facilitate collaboration across its business with Microsoft Teams
The GTT Solution
Improving global collaboration and productivity
GTT provides Etex with Managed SD-WAN across more than 91 sites around the world. The solution is integrated with GTT's global Tier 1 internet backbone for an enhanced user experience. Together with GTT Cloud Connect - providing private and direct cloud connectivity - and combined with WAN optimization, the solution accelerates the performance of Etex's business-critical applications, such as those residing in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
GTT also delivers SIP Trunking services to Etex, enabling inbound and outbound global calling that complement the manufacturer’s cloud-based Microsoft Teams deployment.
A designated GTT Professional Services team collaborates with Etex on its ongoing digital transformation, offering tailored design, project, technical and assurance support. Lastly they are jointly exploring a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework for the next evolution of its networking and threat protection in order to continuously mitigate potential risks in the changing security landscape.
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