![]() In both 20 Signpost was named by Forbes as one of America's Most Promising Companies The company is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Austin and Denver. Signpost is a technology company that develops CRM and marketing automation software for local businesses to build relationships with new and existing customers. It was a fantastic business decision that would have been impossible with our legacy VPN.Stuart Wall, John Buchanan, Shaneal Manek As a result, we saved both moving costs and millions of dollars annually in rent. Perimeter 81 had already given us the flexibility to become hybrid, and we just took it to the next level by becoming 100% remote. But it no longer made sense when we realized that our new office would be empty because of another wave of Covid. “Our CEO lives in Denver, so it seemed only natural that our headquarters would be there. While the company was in the midst of plans to relocate the corporate headquarters from New York to Denver, the Covid Delta wave hit the USA. Each employee had a unique connection rather than sharing a single 100 Mbps VPN connection with dozens of other employees.Ĭloud-based networking gave Signpost the business agility to handle just about any challenge. Using a secure edge connection solved latency and bandwidth issues. In other words, Perimeter 81 can save you $100,000 or more.”įollowing Signpost’s migration to Perimeter 81’s cloud-based secure networking and Firewall-as-a-Service solution, all remote employees were connected to their corporate networking resources via Perimeter 81 data centers in New York, Dallas, or Chicago. ![]() Also, some vendors charge an additional $10,000 for cloud-based monitoring and configuration, which are standard Perimeter 81 features. But with Perimeter 81, we only needed extra gateways at each site. Having dual high-availability VPNs would have required two hardware devices for each office and twice the number of licenses. “While the cost of the software licenses was about the same as our previous VPN vendor, Perimeter 81 saved us $50-60,000 on hardware. Many companies think upgrading legacy equipment is the easier, less expensive choice, but appearances can be misleading. In addition, the entire solution was backed by Perimeter 81’s 24×7 support at no additional cost. The plan provided the company with unlimited policies for Firewall as a Service and high-performance 1000 Mbps gateways that let the sales and customer success teams easily access the Signpost SaaS solution and internal software products hosted on Amazon AWS. Signpost initially bought 60 licenses on Perimeter 81’s Enterprise Plan. ![]() Perimeter 81 Delivers Improved Performance and Dramatic Savings We had initially delayed the investment, but as our business started to grow again, we realized that we could no longer delay the inevitable.” “The performance wasn’t great before Covid, but once the whole company was working from home, the VPN became painfully slow. ![]() The connection speeds were limited by available bandwidth and latency issues, but upgrading the network seemed like a bit of luxury in a period of uncertainty. Most of our employees were working from home due to Covid, and our networking equipment was end-of-life,” says Alex Shtilkind, the Head of Corporate IT at Signpost.Īll of the company’s VPN connections were through the NY headquarters. “We had reached an inflection point in the life of our corporate network. The problem is that in five, six, or seven years, a lot of equipment begins to approach its end-of-life, and then it all needs to be suddenly replaced at once. When many technology startups first launched in the 2010s, they bought all of the greatest and latest equipment for building their on-premises network. ![]()
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