Challenge: Choice Logistics required a new enterprise collaboration and
messaging environment in the Cloud.
Solution: Smartronix provided the strategy, design, and implementation of
Choice Logistics' modern enterprise, transforming their unified communications and messaging
environment to cloud-based services. These services include Active Directory Federation
Services (ADFS), Exchange, and Lync services. Working with Smartronix, Choice Logistics
transitioned from Exchange Server 2007 and related Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA)
Server 2006 services to Exchange Server 2010 and Threat Management Gateway 2010 and deployed
the Exchange 2010 environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). To keep using a legacy
call-center application that relied on Exchange 2007 public folders, Choice Logistics kept
one Hub Transport (which handles mail flow inside the organization) on-premises, while
moving the rest of its Exchange environment to the AWS Cloud. The cloud environment connects
Choice Logistics’ primary datacenter using a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Virtual Private
Network (VPN). All traffic (including external Exchange users) is routed through Choice
Logistics’ primary datacenter and then to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by VPN. The
environment runs across two datacenters in the U.S. East Region. Choice Logistics uses
security groups to isolate the customer-facing public network, client access servers, and
mailbox servers. Learn More
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