2023 Project Success

Worked with a petroleum company to reduce POTS lines expenses saving thousands of dollars annually. In addition, BEK assisted the client with a solution for Equipment removal and provided certificates of destruction.

Assisted a regional credit union with expense reduction and followed up with a complete UCaaS/CCaaS solution for their infrastructure. The expense reduction made the move to UCaaS a neutral budget decision.

Worked with a regional credit union with an acquisition and replacing MPLS with SD_WAN architecture.

Assisted a regional supplier of natural gas in acquiring and deploying a leader in the MDR/SOC space.

Worked with a large regional credit union to make substantial changes to their DR/BC solution; replacing existing infrastructure and providing a more reliable, robust solution.

BEK Networks, LLC was successful in helping one of the largest national home health and hospice providers select a zero-trust platform that would allow them to complete a very smooth transition out of their parent companies’ infrastructure on a very accelerated timeline. The Zscaler platform helps ensure that the systems used by employees work as smoothly, efficiently, and securely as possible without getting in the way of providing the highest level of care for their clientele. Zscaler provides scalable, high-performance, and consistent protection for employees, no matter where they are or what device they are using.

2022 Project Success

BEK Networks, LLC worked with a regional financial institution to convert their legacy WAN infrastructure to an SD-WAN solution using the AT&T ADI platform, Spectrum coax as a secondary connection, and Fortinet for secure network access.  The result was a more robust and flexible wide area network with a substantial reduction in cost.

BEK Networks, LLC worked with a local municipality to implement an UCaaS solution with RingCentral.  In addition,  BEK helped reduced infrastructure cost saving the client over $300,000 over a 36 month period.  The savings of the line reduction completely off set the cost of the UCaaS solution at NO cost to our client.   Telecommunications expense management is a value added service provided by BEK.

BEK Networks, LLC worked with a Birmingham, AL-based business to upgrade and enhance their entire security posture through the use of managed SOC services, upgrading legacy Palo Alto hardware, updating security inspection settings, and enabling TLS-interception capabilities.

BEK Networks, LLC helped a local mining company reduce their telecommunications expenses in excess of $300,000 over three years.  For this engagement, BEK Networks worked with the client to identify and terminate unnecessary lines while reducing the overall costs of remaining services.

BEK Networks, LLC helped a regional engineering firm enhance their security posture and assisted with various network, telephony and UCaaS, and ADI WAN projects.

BEK Networks,  LLC helped a national DOD contractor with a managed SIEM and SOC solution as part of their new requirements for CMMC.

BEK Networks, LLC helped a regional Long Term Post-Acute Care Provider (LTPAC) document and deliver an entire IT infrastructure after it was divested from a larger provider.  The solution included MSP services, SD-WAN, security, and UCaaS solutions.

BEK Networks, LLC helped a regional power wholesale company to further tune and enhance the security posture and configuration of their OT network.

2021 Project Success

BEK assisted a Birmingham-based construction company select CrowdStrike Falcon Premium with Overwatch to replace their legacy endpoint solution. Their new solution not only adds Next-Gen AV protection for their endpoints but also detection and response (EDR) capabilities through Falcon Insight. The client also gained additional real-time insight into applications running in their environment by leveraging Falcon Discover. Finally, the client added 24×7 threat hunting services through Falcon Overwatch.

BEK assisted a national construction company with a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) refresh that will consolidate compute and storage into a single stack that is redundant and scalable for future growth. A hyper-converged solution was a perfect fit to replace the organization’s aging compute and storage, while creating a single pane-of-glass for management and support.

BEK assisted a national logistics provider to evaluate and migrate to an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) environment with a hosted-datacenter provider. This project provided the end user with a completely managed environment, including facilities, power, cooling, hardware, software and support. This allowed the end user to focus on their core business competencies, rather than day-to-day management of a premise-based data center.

BEK assisted a non-profit with a complete security risk assessment of their Office 365 (O365) and Azure environments. The assessment included post-survey action items and detailed steps for remediation and industry best practices for securing cloud environments.

2020 Project Success

BEK assisted a manufacturing company with a network upgrade project for two facilities including review, carrier negotiation, implementation, and project management.

BEK assisted a regional bank with the review, negotiation, and implementation of managed mobility services (MMS) resulting in a savings of over $20K annually. Not only did this implementation save our customer money but it also resulted in freeing up the internal resources who had previously been assigned to manage these services.

BEK assisted a skilled nursing and senior living facility operator evaluate, negotiate, and implement a fully managed and outsourced asset management solution allowing the company better control over their IT assets, end-of-life management, and lifecycle budgeting.

BEK assisted a post-acute care operator with HIPAA-compliant IT asset destruction.

BEK assisted a skilled nursing and senior living facility operator with a complete network improvement project including inventory review & analysis, inventory cleanup, connectivity, survivability, SD-WAN, cloud firewall, telephony, and wiring.

BEK assisted a major regional credit union with migrating to a national UCaaS platform and an in-depth contact center review and migration to a next-generation contact center solution. This transformation enabled the credit union to deploy a “work from anywhere” strategy while improving contact center flow and performance.

BEK assisted a major regional credit union with an in-depth contact center review. This included observing agents and making recommendations to improve contact center efficiency.

BEK assisted a regional bank in Tennessee with the redesign and recontract of their 19 site voice and data network resulting in a $50K term savings after upgrades and improvements.

2019 Project Success
 

BEK assisted a skilled nursing facility operator with a project to improve and standardize their telecom, data, and Internet across their facilities throughout Virginia. The project consisted of a migration to UCaaS, Internet upgrades, MPLS WAN standardization and telecom cleanup.

BEK assisted a multi-national tank truck transporter and logistics provider with on-boarding two acquired businesses by managing the negotiation, review, and implementation of data services for the acquired locations. This allowed their internal resources to focus on the remaining tasks associated with the project.

BEK assisted a regional bank in Tennessee with the on-boarding and roll-out of two new locations including telecom, data, and IP services.

BEK assisted a skilled nursing and senior living facility operator with the review, negotiation, and implementation of Managed Mobility Services (MMS) and fully managed Mobile Device Management (MDM) resulting in a savings of over $20K annually and better control over HIPAA compliance for their organization.

BEK assisted a medical malpractice insurance company with a complete migration from traditional telephony and call center to a UCaaS environment with hosted contact center. This move allowed the organization better control over their system and visibility into their daily operations. This project was completed after a telecom and data review and cleanup allowing the company to migrate at no additional monthly cost compared to what they had been paying.

BEK assisted a post-acute care operator compare, negotiate, and implement end-user security awareness training to educate their end-users on the importance of email behavior safety and phishing awareness.

BEK assisted an online retailer of home décor and accessories renegotiate their carrier contracts for telecom, IP and data resulting in an upgrade in services at an annual savings of $15K.

BEK assisted a major regional credit union to assess their network performance and make recommendations to improve up-time, performance, and security.

BEK assisted a large Department of Defense contractor to migrate to a Unified Communication (UCaaS) platform across all their locations as well as complete overhaul of their security infrastructure. This included a managed Fortinet security appliance at each location with centralized management.

BEK assisted a major regional construction company to migrate to a national UCaaS provider. This project allowed the organization to cut their telecom expenses by $250,000 per year while adding business continuity to their environment.

BEK assisted a large, regional law firm to migrate to a national UCaaS provider. This project aligned with a “cloud first” strategy at the law firm and added business continuity to their environment.

BEK assisted a major, regional credit union with a complete telecom overhaul that included a complete WAN upgrade at all locations, migrating to a national UCaaS platform, and an in-depth contact center review and migration to a next generation contact center solution. This complete project also reduced the overall telecom expenses each month while providing superior service.

BEK assisted a national manufacturer with an email security project that enabled the organization to prevent and remediate email related security events.

BEK  assisted a non-profit school with a complete network and security overhaul that allowed the school to centrally manage their resources and save money on network infrastructure.

2018 Project Success

BEK assisted a major regional credit union overhaul their entire WAN and Telephony footprint. The project increased bandwidth at all locations at a substantial price reduction.

BEK assisted a major regional construction company develop a plan to upgrade their entire data center footprint. The solution entailed a network assessment as well as offsite DR/Backup and a road map for their corporate switching architecture.

BEK assisted a significant regional Louisiana bank reconfigure their corporate architecture and developed a road map for their security infrastructure. The solution utilized Palo Alto to provide dual redundant security touchpoints.