The Challenge

As the organization expanded across multiple offices and healthcare environments, its network had become increasingly difficult to manage, secure, and scale.

Siloed Offices Made Secure Data Sharing Difficult

Clinical and administrative locations relied on Layer 3 connectivity and public-internet VPNs to move sensitive information between sites. This added complexity to sharing EMR data, medical images, and other critical healthcare information while increasing the burden of maintaining a secure environment.

Latency Was Limiting Application Performance

Connections between locations were constrained by approximately 100 Mbps performance, creating delays for data-intensive EMR transfers, imaging resources, voice services, and other business-critical applications.

Public Internet Dependence Introduced Risk and Complexity

VPN concentrators, multiple authentication layers, and internet-dependent connectivity made the environment more complicated to operate. Cloud services such as Citrix and Microsoft 365 could also become slow or unreliable when internet performance degraded.

The Network Needed Resilience

With healthcare operations depending on continuous access to systems and patient information, the organization also needed geographic redundancy and a way to eliminate single points of failure.

The Solution

Massive Networks redesigned the environment around private Layer 2 connectivity, giving the organization a simpler and more predictable way to connect offices, healthcare systems, data centers, and cloud resources.

A Private Network Across Locations

Massive One Pipe Multi-Connect® provided the foundation for secure connectivity across the organization’s locations. Private Layer 2 services allowed critical inter-office traffic to remain separate from public internet traffic while supporting a multi-segmented LAN environment.

Office-to-Office and Data Center Connectivity

Dedicated Office-to-Office Connect® and Data Center Connect services created seamless private links between locations and centralized infrastructure. EMR systems, internal servers, imaging resources, and other critical applications could communicate across the private network rather than relying on public-internet VPN paths.

Dedicated Internet and Cloud Access

Internet traffic remained logically separated from private LAN traffic, while Massive’s network provided more direct connectivity to important cloud and SaaS platforms. This improved application performance without compromising the private network architecture.

Redundancy Built Into the Architecture

A redundant fiber architecture using VLAN segmentation connected the organization’s locations and a secondary data center, providing geographic failover and reducing single points of failure.

The Outcome

Private

HIPAA-sensitive traffic moved away from dependence on public-internet VPNs and onto a secure, auditable private network architecture.

Faster

Network performance scaled from approximately 100 Mbps to as much as 10 Gbps, dramatically reducing latency between locations.

Resilient

Redundant connectivity and a secondary data center provided geographic failover and improved continuity for critical healthcare systems.