Case studies: Waverley Borough Council

Cisilion helps Waverly conform to county council standards

"Cisilion supplied hardware and consultancy to provide an efficient upgrade to a properly designed network configuration. The Council has achieved cost savings by replacing existing leased lines and ISDN connections. We have also achieved cost savings and increased control by bringing web and mail services in house".

Phil Tucker, IT Client Services Manager.

The customer

Waverley Borough Council has its main office in Godalming, Surrey and three smaller offices in Farnham, Cranleigh and Haslemere. The Council employs approximately 450 staff, the majority of whom are based at the Godalming office.

 

The challenge

Waverley Borough Council needed to conform to Surrey County Council IP address standards as SCC was implementing a number of County applications such as VoIP. Also required were better internet services to comply with future e-government requirements. Finally a faster and cheaper RAS solution was required for remote offices and home workers.

 

The solution

Cisilion moved Waverley Borough Council to an RFC 1918 IP address standard for the Council’s internal network and implemented IP services to support users access to the Internet and the necessary security to protect the Council’s network from attacks using a Cisco PIX 515 firewall.

A Cisco VPN 3005 Concentrator was installed to support site-to-site and home workers VPN connections back to the Council’s central network.

 

The benefits

he solution has provided Waverley Borough Council with better internet services, coupled with better security to protect the Council’s network. It has also bought the Council up to date with the requirements to conform to Surrey County Council’s IP address standards. Remote workers can now connect securely to the central network whereby increasing productivity thus resulting in cost savings for Waverley Borough Council.