Werqwise is a flexible workspace that creates innovative environments that embrace different business models, brands, and ways of working. They specializing in offering private offices, shared workspaces, and event spaces that focuses on what is important to their audience and empower them to thrive.
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Werqwise sought to upgrade an outdated and unreliable network infrastructure in one of its offices, aiming to better serve its growing member base. Their existing setup lacked documentation and was limiting capacity, prompting a partnership with Network Right to revamp the space.
Thanks to this collaboration, Werqwise now has a robust, secure, and scalable network that supports uninterrupted service and future growth.
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When Werqwise decided to partner with Network Right, they saw the opportunity to update and upgrade one of their workspaces that needed stronger networking solutions. The existing network infrastructure was not sufficient enough to support their growing membership, preventing them from maximizing the office’s capacity and having confidence in their network setup. Werqwise looked to Network Right to revamp their network, ensuring a seamless and secure experience for existing and future users.
To gain a clearer understanding of the current office landscape, Network Right collaborated with Werqwise’s Technology team to understand the current pain points and lay of the land. This helped identify areas of improvement and explore potential upgrades, laying the groundwork for a more efficient and capable network that could support Werqwise’s ambitious vision for the future.
Understanding the importance of having up-to-date documentation, the Network Right team took on the challenge of reverse-engineering the existing infrastructure. Unfortunately, due to the age of the equipment, no one was really user how the network was setup and its configuration. Network Right saw this as an opportunity to help Werqwise understand the lay of the land more in-depth and feel more confident in understanding what they have now, and where they could go with a new system. Part of the discovery phase included tracing existing cabling, Wi-Fi heat mapping, network configurations, and much more. Through this process, it enabled us to develop detailed and comprehensive networking documentation, which provided a dependable foundation for future operations.
With the foundation set and needs identified, Network Right architected a new, resilient network leveraging Cisco Meraki equipment. The network consisted of two firewalls, core switches, switches, and wireless access points. The firewalls were to be set up for high-availability. This allowed Werqwise to have peace of mind knowing if one of their firewalls goes offline, the other firewall can seamlessly take over without any downtime. We applied similar functionality to the core switches as well. Additionally, we configured two internet service providers (ISPs) so that if one were to go offline, the other would take over.
Resiliency was the most important objective in this design to ensure those who visit Werqwise will never have to worry about downtime.
Once Werqwise gave us the green light, we started to get to work. Werqwise needed to shut down for one weekend to ensure both teams could work in tandem to re-configure the entire network and its dependencies. We started with decommissioning the old network equipment and cutting old/unused data cabling. Afterwards, the Network Right team rack and stacked all the new equipment on each floor and began to connect everything. We would work right behind their team and ensure access points were mounted, conference rooms were connected, and the network was coming online across the entire space. Both Werqwise and Network Right worked from dawn to dusk through the weekend to ensure nothing was missed. Every printer, every conference room, every private office, every wifi access point was validated. It was critical that every customer of theirs was online and members had WiFi come Monday.
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