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Graham Schultz – Director Australia & NZNathan Macgregor – Head of IT Infrastructure Minter Ellison

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ENABLING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE IN A CLOUD FIRST WORLD

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2018 GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT

• Silver Peak Named a Leader

• Global, 100+ Countries, 1000+ SD-WAN‘s

• Focused

• According to Gartner:• The market for branch office wide-area network

functionality is shifting from dedicated routing, security and WAN optimization appliances to feature-rich SD-WAN and vCPE platforms. WAN edge infrastructure now incorporates a widening set of network functions, including secure routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, WAN path control and WAN optimization, along with traditional routing functionality.

WAN Edge Infrastructure

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WHY FORWARD-THINKING EXECUTIVES CHOOSE SILVER PEAKthe key differentiators

BUSINESS

DRIVEN

(Policy, Top Down, Application-driven)

CONTINUOUS

ADAPTATION

(Automation, MachineLearning)

UNIFIED

PLATFORM

(Router, Firewall, WAN Op, single pane of glass)

HIGHEST

QUALITY OF

EXPERIENCE(Dynamic Path Control, Path Conditioning and

WAN Opt)

Enabling Digital Transformation & Improving User Experience in a Cloud First World

Graham SchultzDirector ANZ at Silver Peak

––

Nathan MacgregorHead of IT Infrastructure at MinterEllison

September 2019

The MinterEllison story

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established 1827

GLOBALLYA LARGE & DIVERSE

CLIENT BASE

Blue chip public &

private companies

Government

(local, state &

federal)

Leading

multinationals

State owned

entities

Global financial

institutions

Modernising and

digitising a 200-

year-old Firm

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Cloud

First

Improved

Agility

Alignment to

Business

Improved

Efficiency

Reduced

Complexity

Resilience

Costs

Enhanced

User

Experience

Digital Transformation

Business Drivers

Traditional Architecture

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▪ Based on MPLS

▪ Mix of Layer 2 & 3 networks

▪ Traffic Engineering

▪ Managing Quality of Service

▪ Costly in effort and risk to change

▪ Highly skilled resources (CLI)

▪ Aging routers / wan opt

▪ Dormant backup links

▪ Backhauling of internet traffic

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“Provision of a new software defined

network that will support the

increasing demands of interoffice

communications and the increased

adoption of cloud services.”

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1. Replace EOL network equipment

2. Better accessibility to cloud providers i.e. AWS | Azure

3. Redundancy for International Offices

4. Better Performance

5. Better User Experience

Short Term

1. Decommission Secondary DC

2. Migration to DR as a Service (DRaaS)

3. Remove backup dormant MPLS network

4. Reduce dependency on network optimisation

Long Term

Journey to SDWAN

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Visibility

Control

Analytics

Management

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Business First

Policy based

Solution

Integrated

Solution

Market

Research

Security

Integration

Follow the Sun

Support Teams

Planning and Deployment – Phase 1 - Australia

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Plan | Design with SilverPeak

Lab testing with SilverPeak & ICT Networks

Limited Outage window

Local Resources at branch office

Cutover – extensive performance & failover testing

UAT – application testing

SilverPeak, first business day support

Planning and Deployment – Phase 2 - International

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1

2

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Same approach as for Australian offices

Logistics for resourcing & hardware

Limited Outage window

4 Language and Cultural challenges

Benefits

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▪ Digital transformation with cloud first initiative

▪ Agility the ability to make policy

▪ Alignment to Business

▪ Efficiency

▪ Reduction in Complexity

▪ Resilience

▪ Commercially

▪ Continuous improvement

Lessons Learned

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▪ Ensure thorough testing completed

▪ Logistics challenges with shipping internationally

▪ Invest in certified training

▪ Setting expectations with business on scale of change