Case Study 

Customer Background
Wellstreet Urgent Care, a Georgia-based healthcare provider with 18 clinics stretching into Virginia and part of a 54-location urgent care network across the Southeast to Minnesota, needed help resolving complex network integration challenges.

The Challenge
As an existing AT&T customer, Wellstreet sought to align its ANIRA remote access network with MPLS while also deploying a cloud-based firewall to strengthen security. During discovery, I uncovered significant compatibility issues between MPLS, ANIRA, and AT&T’s Cloud Firewall offerings, making integration difficult and unreliable.

My Role
Despite initial resistance from the sales team, I drove solution development, iterating the design three times until the architecture met customer needs for security, scalability, and compliance.

The Solution
The final design resembled a Managed SASE framework (before AT&T formally offered SASE), integrating:

• Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Firewall + Cortex Data Lake for cloud security & visibility.
• VeloCloud SD-WAN for resilient, intelligent site-to-site connectivity.
• Managed Threat Detection & Response (MTDR) for 24/7 security operations.

The Outcome

• Wellstreet expanded adoption from the initial 18 locations to all 54 clinics nationwide.
• Increased monthly spend to $95K, reflecting strong ROI and trust in AT&T’s ability to deliver.
• Delivered enhanced compliance, improved visibility, and a modernized security posture across a growing healthcare footprint.
• Established Wellstreet as a benchmark for network excellence in healthcare SASE adoption.