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Millisecond Magic: Delivering Global Performance for Data Centre Leaders

Case studies

In partnership with Mission London, Longhorn Consulting transformed Global Switch's web presence. Serving hyperscale customers, financial institutions, and government organizations, Global Switch demanded a solution matching their Tier III+ standards for speed, security, and scalability—and we delivered.

Global switch mobile

Proposition

Mission London approached Longhorn Consulting with a brief to build a high-performance corporate website for datacetre leaders, Global Switch. As a premium data center operator serving hyperscale customers, financial institutions, and government organisations across Europe and Asia-Pacific, Global Switch needed website performance, security, and scalability matching their Tier III+ operational standards.

  • Global Switch Partners grid

Research & Analysis

Longhorn initiated a deep dive into Global Switch's existing global web infrastructure. This involved:

Comprehensive website audit

Analysing site speed, cross-device and cross-platform functionality, responsiveness and user experience (UX) dimensions, accessibility and SEO structure. Longhorn identified key issues in all areas.

CDN solution architecting

Working in close technical partnership with Global Switch’s CDN vendors and suppliers, Longhorn analyzed complex content delivery requirements and orchestrated a strategic migration that proved critical to the successful global launch.

POC prototyping

Longhorn lead the way in technical discovery, producing a fully-functioning prototype demonstrating key aspects of the solution design, and validating the real-world application of the technical proposal.

The Solution

In collaboration with Mission London, Longhorn developed a comprehensive plan to build a content management soluiton for Global Switch, combining ease of use with enterprise-grade performance and security.

High performance

Longorn optimised each web page to yield the fastest possible loading times, without compromising on content. We call this Millisecond Magic, and is an order of magnitude faster than previous performance.

High security

Longhorn designed and implemented a cutting-edge static website architecture, ensuring the strongest security posture.

Seamless integration

Critical business integrations including Salesforce CRM for lead management, Google Analytics for performance tracking, customer service and career portals.

Global Switch Global Destinations Web Page

Results

Longhorn delivered measurable improvements across performance, security, and operational efficiency, directly supporting Mission to deliver Global Switch's requirements and business objectives.

  • Instantly 

    10x faster

    We delivered pages that load 10x faster, bolstering SEO, and yielding instant, reponsive user experiences that are  synonymous with Global Switch's brand image

  • Achieved highest Qualys security rating

    A+

    Working closely with security management, we hardened and secured Global Switch's data-in-transit encryption, delivering the highest industry rating in SSL/TLS security

  • Reachable from mainland china

    China

    Meeting Global Switch's requirement of visibility from within mainland China, we partnered with CDN providers to deliver a robust and reliable solution that is reachable from behind the great firewall of China.

  • Hundreds of pages + 7 languages + 10 domains

    >200

    We helped Global Switch deliver hundreds of pages in English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Simplified and Traditional Chinese langauges, deployed across 10 domains spanning Europe, Asia Pacific and the US.

Longhorn is outstanding. It is an overused word but a proper reflection of highly superior technical knowledge and insight delivered with absolute clarity for non technical audiences and end clients at CEO level. In practice that is a strategic advantage when presenting options, developing solutions and working with commercial and business teams at senior level. All this is then matched by excellence that becomes a predictable advantage in delivery. We are now on to follow projects with Longhorn. Longhorn is a real 'value add' organisation.

Rahil Sheikh

Founder, Mission London

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