10-Site SD-WAN Deployment: HomeBoy Industries Network Transformation
One of the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry programs in the world moved 10 Los Angeles locations from fragmented single circuits to a fully redundant VeloCloud SD-WAN, protecting 100+ security cameras, consolidating everything onto one invoice, and saving $18,113.76 per year in the process.
Delivered by ObsidianX in partnership with Circle MSP.
10
Locations unified
$18,113
Annual savings
~2 mo
Payback on the one-time install
100%
Camera uptime protected
The Challenge
HomeBoy Industries serves over 10,000 individuals annually across 10 Los Angeles locations, operating recycling facilities, bakeries, and social enterprises that depend on reliable, secure network infrastructure and 100+ IP security cameras.
- 9 sites running on single circuits with no failover protection
- The Atlantic Ave facility operated 100 IP cameras requiring 200 to 400 Mbps upload, at risk of total camera blackout on any outage
- Multiple carriers, multiple bills, no unified management or visibility
- No dedicated support or named engineer for the life of the relationship
- A net-new Carmen Ave location needed to be brought online from scratch
The Solution
Deployed by Obsidian X and Circle MSP as a co-delivery team.
Dual circuits at all 9 SD-WAN sites
Primary and secondary wired circuits providing true last-mile diversity and automatic failover. No wireless backup gaps.
VeloCloud 720 SD-WAN
Enterprise-grade hardware deployed at no cost at all 9 sites.
Atlantic Ave critical site
AT&T DIA 500M primary plus Spectrum Fiber DIA 500M secondary, delivering 1 Gbps symmetric dual-DIA with all 100 cameras protected on failover.
Carmen Ave net-new build
Full SD-WAN and dual-circuit redundancy deployed from the ground up.
DDoS mitigation included
In-tunnel protection at all SD-WAN sites at no additional cost.
Single consolidated bill
All 10 sites on one invoice with a dedicated Tier 3 engineer for the life of the 3-year managed contract.
The Results
Mission-critical reliability achieved across the entire footprint, at a lower total cost.
- $1,509.48 per month in total savings ($18,113.76 per year), driven by competitive circuit sourcing and retiring $1,100 per month of EPL/Metro-E circuits the SD-WAN overlay made unnecessary
- Roughly two month payback on the one-time installation cost
- Zero camera downtime at Atlantic Ave: 1 Gbps dual-DIA keeps all 100 cameras operational even on primary circuit failure
- True redundancy at every SD-WAN site with wired primary and wired secondary paths
- Unified management across all 10 locations under a single provider, single invoice, and named support engineer
- Net-new Carmen Ave site fully operational with enterprise-grade SD-WAN from day one
- Competitive displacement: the incumbent Spectrum Meraki solution was replaced with VeloCloud 720 at superior performance and equal cost
- DDoS protection included across all sites at no additional cost
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