East Coast Subsidary Office Network

An existing client of McMillan Consulting with offices on the West Coast had a unique business opportunity that would allow them to leverage their existing business expertise and enter a new market.

This opportunity required them to set up a subsidiary business office on the East Coast and be up and operational in less than a month.

McMillan immediately ordered the necessary network hardware. McMillan’s Systems Department setup and configured the server (including Exchange), while the Network Department built out the switch and firewall on our test bench. 14 workstations were configured, all software applications installed and tested, and two laptops setup for remote access.

McMillan’s Telecommunications Department ordered the 30 POTs telephone lines needed for immediate installation while working with AT&T to get two T1 (PRI) lines contracted for.

Office space was located and McMillan worked with local wiring and telephone system contractors to get the necessary facilities installed. McMillan shipped the configured server and network infrastructure along with the workstations and laptops across the country to the new office.

McMillan flew a project engineer onsite to assemble the necessary components into a functioning network and to configure and secure a wireless access point so the network could be accessed via the wireless equipped laptops. McMillan performed training and had the network up and running and talking to the parent company network via a VPN tunnel and finished everything three days prior to the “go live” date.

Total time from the initial planning meeting to first business day was 23 days.