FMCG
Client
One of the largest conglomerates in the country with over 60% market share
Requirement:
- Migration from Legacy networks to a high performance and scalable network
- Unified communication and collaboration for improving business efficiency
- Highly reliable network architecture and infrastructure that facilitates business planning applications like SAP
- Seamless integration between nation wide manufacturing facilities and corporate office
- Wireless for user mobility and RFID based production tracking
- Reduction in operational cost of network infrastructure
- Disaster recovery center to ensure business continuity
- Enhance security within the various departments within the network
- Converged network to facilitate Data, Voice and Video communication
Solution:
- As always, our immediate task was to study the existing infrastructure, business demands and pain areas of within the user community
- The solution included the following:
- It was required to gradually move the users into newer platforms and such a change management had to be in a phase manner. Hence the entire project was executed in phases, starting with the corporate office and then to the larger manufacturing units to the smaller ones.
- A 3 Tier Network Architecture at the corporate office: Core - Distribution - Access
- A 2 Tier Network Architecture at the manufacturing units: Core - Distribution / Access
- A Passive Network that facilitates the 3 Tier and 2 Tier Architectures
- A Passive Network that can scale to a 10G Backbone with redundancy
- Unified communication and collaboration system with Microsoft Integration
- Build of a Disaster Recovery Data Center with Business Continuity Plan
- Seamless mobility across campuses over wireless with demarcation of Organizational users and Guest users
- Wireless as an infrastructure to facilitate RFID for production tracking
- Implementation of infrastructure management process