April, 2019 – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – United Solutions Company’s (USC) desire to help credit unions keep their members data safe and secure, lead to collaborating with CISCO™ Meraki.
As of today, USC Networking has Meraki Systems Manager for Device Management, Meraki firewalls (MX), Telecommuter firewalls, Meraki Wireless Access Points (MR), and Meraki Switches (MS). USC is leveraging CISCO™ Meraki to streamline and secure new sites, either offices or credit union branches. USC Networking is leveraging the built in Auto-VPN & SD-WAN capability to eliminate dependency of a single telecommunications provider while still providing redundancy with dual WAN interfaces and encryption over all WAN interfaces.
“CISCO™ Meraki changed the way we interact with our clients,” states Jeff Barrage, Chief Information Officer of USC. “With SD-WAN, Dual WAN, and AutoVPN on the MX's, we can reduce complexity, service providers, and time of deployment for sites. Cameras, Endpoint Management, Firewalls, Switches, and Indoor & Outdoor WiFi Access Points managed from a single cloud-based dashboard, that's a full stack best in class solution.”
Our Service Provider solution allows a credit union to have CISCO™ Meraki firewalls at their locations with VPN's configured from each site at USC. For many clients, USC recommends private MPLS circuits with Century Link that are provided by USC allowing the credit union to purchase a backup Internet connection with the provider of their choice. USC Networking would install a CISCO™ Meraki Firewall to provide auto-VPN connections and SD-WAN allowing a credit union to leverage both connections simultaneously and maintain data encryption, with dual WAN uplinks. With the Meraki firewall, we can add secure WIFI for the credit union team and segmentation for a "guest" network to be used by members, vendors, etc.
“United Solutions is always looking to offer best of breed products and services that will add value and give us a competitive advantage. We feel CISCO™ Meraki is an industry changing product and are happy to offer Meraki to our credit union clients,” said Jim Giacobbe, President and CEO of USC.
As the Meraki platform grows, so will the scale of deployment at USC. Just as the Meraki home page says, “Work simple.” Let your credit union work simple with USC Meraki Deployment.