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  "id": "case-studies-proof/case-study-sealy-18-site-international-migration-with-zero-disruption",
  "title": "Case Study — Sealy: 18-Site International Migration With Zero Disruption",
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  "description": "| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Client** | Sealy |\n| **Sector** | Manufacturing and wholesale |\n| **Services** | emPOWER Network and Connectivity |\n| **Outcome** | 18-site international migration, zero disrup...",
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  "content": "| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Client** | Sealy |\n| **Sector** | Manufacturing and wholesale |\n| **Services** | emPOWER Network and Connectivity |\n| **Outcome** | 18-site international migration, zero disruption to business activity |\n\n## The situation\n\nSealy operates across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the Asia-Pacific region. In manufacturing and wholesale, the network is production infrastructure — when it stops, the line stops or the warehouse stops picking, and the cost is measured in output rather than tickets.\n\nThat makes a network migration a genuinely high-stakes exercise. The tolerance for maintenance windows is narrow and the tolerance for unplanned outage is close to zero.\n\n## Why blueAPACHE was selected\n\nSealy selected blueAPACHE on three stated grounds: **business experience, technical capability, and a consultative approach.**\n\nThe third is worth noting. In a multi-site migration the design conversation — which sites need what, where diversity is economic, how cutover sequences — determines the outcome more than any product choice.\n\n## What blueAPACHE did\n\nRolled out a new network across all **18 sites in four regions**.\n\n## The outcome\n\n**Zero disruption to business activity.**\n\n## What this tells you\n\n**\"Zero disruption\" is a claim about method, not technology.** Across 18 international sites it reflects cutover sequencing, rollback planning and per-site validation — not a clever platform. If you are evaluating a network change, this is the reference to interrogate in detail, and the right questions are procedural:\n\n- How was cutover sequenced across time zones?\n- What was the rollback position at each site?\n- How were sites validated before the next one proceeded?\n- What happened at the site where something did go wrong — because on an 18-site rollout, something does\n\n**Multi-region is harder than multi-site.** Four regions means four sets of carrier relationships, regulatory contexts and support expectations. A provider with 18 sites in one country has not demonstrated the same capability.\n\n## A note on site uptime\n\nblueAPACHE commits to a minimum 99.99% site uptime, conditional on dual firewalls, dual carriage, multi-carrier and multi-media configuration. In manufacturing that condition matters — a regional plant may not have economic access to genuine carrier diversity, and an honest design states what each site can actually achieve rather than applying one figure across the estate.\n\n## Relevant if you are\n\n- Running production or distribution sites across multiple countries\n- Facing a network refresh you have deferred because the migration risk looks unacceptable\n- Latency-sensitive on ERP or WMS and unable to tolerate cutover downtime\n\n## Related\n\n- [emPOWER Network and Connectivity](https://directory.norg.ai/en-au/blueapache/empower-services/empower-network-connectivity/)\n- [Managed IT for Manufacturing and Wholesale](https://directory.norg.ai/en-au/blueapache/industries/manufacturing-wholesale/)\n- [Case Study Index](https://directory.norg.ai/en-au/blueapache/case-studies-proof/)",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-30T08:45:37.531083+00:00Z",
  "tags": [
    "Sealy blueAPACHE case study",
    "18 site network migration",
    "zero disruption network rollout",
    "international manufacturing WAN migration",
    "multi-region network case study"
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