AT&T Medical Customer – Distributed Enterprise Network Rebuild (SASE)

In late 2020, we engaged with Wellstreet Urgent Care, a Georgia-based healthcare provider with 18 regional locations and a broader network of 54 urgent care facilities stretching from the Southeast U.S. to Minnesota. As an existing AT&T customer, Wellstreet faced significant challenges integrating their ANIRA network with their MPLS infrastructure while also seeking to strengthen their security posture with a Cloud-Based Firewall solution.

During the discovery phase, we identified critical compatibility issues between their MPLS, ANIRA, and cloud firewall services. To address these complexities, we proposed a complete network redesign—one that would evolve into a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)-like architecture. Though AT&T did not offer a native SASE solution at the time, we engineered a robust, scalable design using:

• Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Firewall with Cortex Data Lake
• VeloCloud SD-WAN
• Managed Threat Detection and Response (MTDR)

Despite initial internal resistance, our commitment to delivering a high-value solution led to full adoption by Wellstreet. The design went through three iterations to ensure alignment with their operational and compliance needs.