Multi-site WAN consolidation across three vendors by Tanveer AhmedMulti-site WAN consolidation across three vendors by Tanveer Ahmed

Multi-site WAN consolidation across three vendors

Tanveer Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed

The problem

A decade of site-by-site growth across three vendors: static routes layered over partial dynamic routing, overlapping address space in two regions, and a core whose second path had been repurposed and never restored. Nobody had a current picture of how traffic actually flowed.

What I did

Audited the running estate rather than the documentation, rebuilt the address plan to remove the overlaps, replaced the static layer with a single coherent dynamic routing design, and restored the redundant core path. Every migration step was staged so it could be reversed inside its own maintenance window.

The result

One routed design across all three vendors, a second path that genuinely carries traffic when the first fails, and documentation that matches the estate as built.

A note on client names

Client names are withheld across this portfolio. Most of this work sits under an agreement that doesn't permit naming the organisation, so environments are described by type rather than by name. I'd extend you the same discretion.
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Posted Sep 28, 2026

A decade of growth across three vendors, rebuilt into one routed design — with the repurposed second core path restored and every step reversible.