Manufacturing Solutions
Run smart factories on intelligent, resilient and secure networking, with managed hybrid cloud that places every workload where it performs best
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Solve infrastructure and security challenges in today’s connected world
Modern manufacturing runs on connectivity. Your plants, warehouses, offices and cloud systems all depend on a globally reliable network. When the network fails, production stops.
As manufacturers embrace smart factory tools to drive innovation and competitive differentiation, it is crucial to have a secure, high-performance networking foundation that keeps pace with these technological shifts. GTT helps global manufacturers modernize their networks to keep production lines moving, data flowing and teams connected wherever you build, ship or serve.
Connecting the end-to-end manufacturing ecosystem
Manufacturers are linking more of their world together than ever before: plants, suppliers, logistics partners, engineering teams, ERP systems, OT equipment, and cloud services. When these environments aren’t well connected, downtime increases, performance dips and visibility disappears.
Whether you’re expanding production, standardizing systems or increasing supply chain resiliency, GTT designs and deploys high-performance secure networking foundations that support innovation without adding complexity.
GTT’s global, secure cloud networking changes that. With GTT, you can:
- Ensure real-time operational visibility across production environments
- Improve quality checks with consistent connectivity across sites
- Accelerate cloud adoption without sacrificing reliability and security
- Bring new plants and logistics locations online faster
- Gain a single, unified view across global operations
The benefits of GTT’s manufacturing expertise
Global connectivity that keeps production moving
Your operations need secure, reliable, predictable performance across every site, from the main factory to the smallest branch office. GTT brings your environments together through Secure Connect, Managed SD-WAN, Cloud Connect, and our global Tier 1 IP backbone, delivering a cohesive network experience.
Without GTT
- Regional networks with inconsistent performance
- Slow, complex onboarding of new plants and logistics sites
- Limited visibility into network or app performance
With GTT
- One global network with centralized control
- Faster, simpler turn-up of new sites
- Consistent performance for your critical cloud applications such as MES, ERP, digital twins, analytics
HMY Group implemented Managed SD-WAN across its global locations, reducing network costs by 22% while doubling site bandwidth to support production and design workloads.
Built-in cyber resilience and zero-trust access
With increasing cyber threats across both IT and OT environments, you can protect both by embedding security directly into your network with Secure Connect, Zero-Trust Network Access, Managed Detection and Response, Managed Firewall and DDoS protection.
Without GTT
- Legacy OT systems exposed to modern attacks
- Inconsistent global security controls
- Limited visibility into threats
With GTT
- Globally consistent protection across every site
- Zero-trust access enforced by user, device and context
- Faster detection and response via global SOCs
Mitsubishi Electric UK deployed SD-WAN and advanced security services to modernize its network across UK and Ireland with tightened access controls, enhanced threat detection, and improved overall resilience.
Cloud-smart and edge-ready performance
Some workloads belong in the cloud. Others must stay close to the production line, where milliseconds matter. Managed Hybrid Cloud lets you place every workload where they perform best—across GTT EnvisionEdge, GTT EnvisionCore (private) and public cloud—without compromising security or control. While many providers add hybrid cloud on top of someone else’s network, GTT runs it through our own global Tier-1 backbone, so cloud performance starts where GTT controls it.
Without GTT
- Latency issues impacting robotics, analytics, digital twins
- Unpredictable cloud performance
- Fragmented visibility across on-prem, edge, and cloud
With GTT
- Private, high-performance connectivity to major cloud providers
- Fit-for-purpose placement across GTT EnvisonEdge, GTT EnvisionCore and public cloud, with managed DBaaS, DRaaS, Backup and GPU Compute
- No data egress charges between GTT cloud locations, so cost follows performance
- Unified application and network visibility via GTT EnvisionDX
Etex modernized its global network with SD-WAN and Cloud Connect to support its multi-cloud strategy, improving visibility, strengthening reliability and optimizing application performance across 160+ sites, the same connectivity foundation that carries Managed Hybrid Cloud workloads across GTT EnvisionEdge, GTT EnvisionCore and public cloud.
Simpler operations, more control for lean IT teams
Manufacturing IT teams often support dozens, even hundreds of globally distributed sites with limited resources. GTT takes on project, technical and service management so you can focus on higher-value work.
Without GTT
- IT is juggling multi-vendor networks
- Long deployment timelines, inconsistent standards
- Too many escalations and slow troubleshooting
With GTT
- One accountable partner across all regions
- Standardized architectures and consistent global delivery
- Proactive optimization guided by shared telemetry
Barry Callebaut deployed a global Managed SD-WAN architecture across 130+ sites, amplifying operations and improving reliability across manufacturing and logistics networks.
As manufacturers scale AI and cloud strategies, what’s the hidden challenge that could slow them down?
AI, robotics and digital twins are only as good as the infrastructure beneath them. Legacy networks weren’t built for the data volumes, low latency and seamless edge-to-cloud integration that modern manufacturing demands. The real challenge isn’t the technology, it’s the network.
GTT’s Richard Aspinall explains why modernizing networks is now a competitive lever, unlocking faster innovation, reducing downtime and driving operational agility.
Why leading manufacturers
choose GTT
- Tier 1 backbone for predictable network performance and global reach
- Secure Connect (SASE) and managed software defined networking and security
- GTT Envision Platform for visibility, insights, orchestration and control
- Global delivery model supporting 170+ countries
- One partner, one platform, one digital experience for networking, security and cloud
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World’s top automotive manufacturers
Röchling Automotive partnered with GTT to modernize its global network and support Industry 4.0 initiatives, resulting in improved network stability and security across its global footprint, enhanced performance of critical production systems and strengthened support for ongoing digital transformation programs.
“GTT Managed SD-WAN and Cloud Connect have created a high-performance, secure, and highly reliable network solution for Röchling Automotive.”
Christian Mall
IT Manager, Network & Data Centre Global, Rochling
Our Manufacturing service portfolio
Connect your plants, protect operations and support your global Industry 4.0 evolution
Managed SD-WAN
High-performance connectivity for every site
SASE: Secure Connect
Integrated networking and security in a single platform
Cloud Security
Secure access to the cloud
Network Security & Operations
Cyber resilience for manufacturing systems
Voice
Secure, dependable unified communications at global scale
Frequently asked questions
What network and cloud solutions does GTT offer manufacturers?
GTT brings networking, security and cloud together for global manufacturers. You get Managed SD-WAN for site-to-site performance, Secure Connect SASE and Cloud SSE for secure access, managed security for OT and IT, plus Managed Hybrid Cloud for workload placement. The GTT Envision platform gives you visibility and control across all of it.
What is SD-WAN and why do manufacturers need it?
SD-WAN gives every plant, warehouse and office reliable application performance over the network you already have. GTT Managed SD-WAN prioritizes traffic like ERP, MES and video, fails over automatically when a link drops and stays consistent across regions, so production keeps running and remote sites perform like headquarters.
How do SASE and SSE protect a manufacturing network?
SASE combines networking and security in the cloud, so policy follows the user and the device rather than the location. GTT Secure Connect SASE and Cloud SSE deliver Zero-Trust Network Access, secure web access and threat protection across plants and remote workers, with one set of controls applied consistently and monitored around the clock.
How does GTT secure OT and IT environments in manufacturing?
GTT builds security into the network with Secure Connect SASE, Zero-Trust Network Access, Managed Detection and Response, Managed Firewall and DDoS protection. The same controls apply across every site and global security operations centers watch them around the clock, protecting legacy OT systems and modern IT against ransomware and OT-targeted attacks.
What is Managed Hybrid Cloud for manufacturing?
Managed Hybrid Cloud lets you run each workload where it performs best, across edge, private and public cloud, under one operating model. GTT delivers it through EnvisionCloud with private connectivity, managed cloud services and unified visibility, so plants, ERP, MES and analytics stay fast and secure worldwide.
Should manufacturing workloads run at the edge or in the cloud?
It depends on the workload. Real-time control, machine vision and inspection belong at the edge, close to the line where milliseconds matter. Analytics, AI training, ERP and collaboration run well in private or public cloud. GTT EnvisionCloud places each workload across edge, core and public so performance and cost stay balanced.
Can GTT support digital twins, AI and Industry 4.0 workloads?
Yes. GTT pairs low-latency networking with edge placement and GPU Compute for digital twins, machine vision and AI inference, plus private Cloud Connect for training and analytics in public cloud. A global Tier 1 backbone and consistent global performance give your Industry 4.0 projects the network readiness they depend on.
Why do manufacturers choose GTT?
You get one partner for networking, security and cloud, delivered across 170+ countries on a global Tier 1 backbone ranked among the largest. The GTT Envision platform gives you visibility, orchestration and control in one place, and proven results with manufacturers like Etex, HMY and Barry Callebaut back it up.
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