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Network Infrastructure Optimisation Services Case Study - Audit Services

With the increasing Infrastructure to cope with the organisations growth, it becomes crucial to examine the network and see how best to optimise performance and standardise the network to prevent frequent network outage.
Case study
Company name: Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Industry: Automotive
Last updated: 11 Oct 2006

Network Infrastructure Optimisation Services Case Study - Audit Services
Business need
Solution
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Customer information
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Business need

India's leading lifestyle and retail store chain enjoying numero-uno position in the department store category in India. The Company's stores are spread across all major cities in India.

At the forefront in making the optimal use of IT for its day to day operations. To support its operations, customer has its data center located in its service office in Mumbai.

Customer has its service office(SO) in Mumbai, hosting its critical servers that are accessed by all store locations across the country for the retailing operations. These locations connect to the SO via various connectivity media like IP VPN, Broadband, ISDN and Leased Lines.

They were facing performance problem in the network and they were looking for external consultant to evaluate the setup at their facilities in Service Office and one store of each category on sampling basis to provide recommendations to optimize the existing setup. Similarly, they wanted the recommendations on optimizing their WAN architecture and bandwidth sizing for the critical applications.

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Solution

NetSol approached the situation with following strategy

  • Capture Key Business Communication Drivers
  • Capture performance statistics for critical network segment/devices
  • Application Analysis for critical applications
  • Vet the existing LAN architecture against the Business Communication Drivers
  • Highlight the issues and Limitations
  • Provide recommendations to patch the short falls
  • Detailed solution document customized to every store category with minimal timeframe to get the network up.
  • A Robust WAN Architecture in line with Business needs to address the scalability, manageability and security requirements
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Results

Network Infrastructure Optimisation Services is packaged to provide you with complete insight into your network performance and functionality. This service will aid you for capacity planning resource re-deployment, service provisioning and re-engineering of the network.

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Benefits

Some of the benefits customer has obtained from partnering with Netsol are

  • A complete overview of the existing Network infrastructure
  • Scalable architecture to keep pace with the business growth - projected WAN network designed to cater to over 100% growth in next three years with solution designed to seamlessly integrate the new facilities
  • IP addressing schema with 300% scalability to support current and future business requirements
  • 100% redundancy at Core, distribution and Access Layers.
  • Flexibility to re-engineer traffic patterns based on traffic volumes
  • Detailed bandwidth analysis for its current and to-be-deployed applications with customized bandwidth requirements derived for each class of stores viz. large, medium and small size stores with scalability projections to address the growth requirements over next three years.
  • Appropriately Engineered & Dedicated Bandwidth within the Service office LAN to address the planned deployment for SAP and other mission critical application servers.
  • Optimum utilization of the existing IT investment with a Systematic and Planned approach to migrate to optimized setup with minimal impact on production.
  • A detailed migration approach to the recommended setup with budgetary estimates for a well-planned expansion.
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Customer information
Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Founded in 1993, Network Solutions (Netsol) is India's largest vendor independent network and telecom infrastructure solution provider and one of India's fastest growing enterprise-wide Integration Companies. We focus on providing Network and System Integration Services and also manage enterprise and service provider IT infrastructures.
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