Tata Consultancy Services Success Story
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- Brocade MLX Series Core Router
- Brocade VDX Switches
- Brocade VCS Fabric technology
- Brocade ICX 6610 Switches
- Brocade TurboIron 24X Switches
- Brocade CER 2000 Series compact routers
- Brocade ADX Series of application delivery switches
- Brocade Network Advisor
Tech Stack
- SDN
- Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
- OpenFlow
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Virtual Private network (VPN)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
- Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
- Networks & Connectivity - Routers & Bridges
- Networks & Connectivity - Software-Defined Networking
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Augmented Reality
- Building Automation & Control
- Computer Vision
- Digital Twin
- Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence
- Inventory Management
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Predictive Maintenance
- Virtual Reality
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- Hardware Design & Engineering Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The client is a leading life and pensions company, headquartered in London, and offers a range of retirement and pension services to more than five million customers. To maintain its lead in a highly competitive market, the client had launched a service improvement program to accelerate time to market for new services, improve delivery efficiency, and remain flexible as new market opportunities arise. Its existing data center incorporated a diverse range of technologies and systems. The Cisco data network had evolved over many years, resulting in fragmented VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) domain networks with multiple core switches and a mix of two-tier and flat network architectures. Point-to-point WAN links connected three data centers and 11 office locations, which altogether used more than 1,100 network devices from various vendors.
The Challenge
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was engaged by a leading life and pensions company, headquartered in London, to build out a new data center. The client's existing data center incorporated a diverse range of technologies and systems, resulting in a complex network that demanded intensive management and extraordinary amounts of time to bring a new service to market while increasing operation costs. Infrastructure age and complexity also restricted the company’s ability to scale to meet growing business requirements. More than 8,000 users needed access to enterprise applications and resources that resided on mainframes and servers, and storage demands were steadily increasing. The data center network also had to support quality of service for voice traffic. The new data center had to be able to support multitenancy and enable a path to SDN. At the same time, TCS needed to migrate all applications and millions of policies to the new data center with no changes to IP addressing of the application systems.
The Solution
TCS designed the new network with redundant Brocade MLX Core Routers at the data center network core. The Brocade MLX Series Core Routers support Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF), which enabled TCS to provide multitenancy and circumvent the IP address issues. The VRF technology separates internal traffic from external traffic into the correct physical connections through the firewalls. Brocade MLX Series Core Routers also support OpenFlow, providing an SDN solution for programmatic control of the network. Using Brocade VDX® Switches and Brocade VCS® Fabric technology, TCS consolidated the aggregation and access layers, which connect to the core through 4x10 GbE links. The Brocade VCS Fabric technology supports VLAN tagging which solved the problems associated with overlapping Layer 2 VLAN IDs across the data center. The Brocade VDX Switches provide 1/10 Gbps connectivity to servers and for uplinks, while providing the option for future deployment of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
Operational Impact
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