Verizon gives an 81-year old industry icon a 12-week network makeover
September 18 2018 - 9:00PM
One of the world’s biggest power transmission and distribution
equipment companies, CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited (CG)
manufactures sustainable end-to-end electrical solutions that drive
revenues of upwards of Euro 1 billion. Headquartered in India, the
company employs over 5000 plus employees worldwide including its
manufacturing units and sales offices at Belgium, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, France, UK and US in addition to over
thirty-five locations on its home turf.
As its business continued to grow, company’s
network needed to keep pace with the demands of the business.
Specifically, CG realized the necessity of deploying a natural
extension to the company’s existing Multiprotocol Label Switching
(MPLS) network.
Balaji Kulkarni, Head of IT Infrastructure,
commented: “The network underpins our business and as we continue
to expand our global operations, we wanted to retain the best
attributes of our existing MPLS solution but add on some cutting
edge features. The network had to be transport agnostic, be able to
deliver insights and offer complete visibility and control of the
performance of our applications. We needed to be in a position that
would enable us to add endpoints seamlessly. Of course, it also
goes without saying that we needed a solution that could be
deployed very quickly.
When CG Power chose to go with a Managed Software
Defined Wide Area Network (SD WAN) solution, Verizon’s
engineers worked through a multitude of stakeholders across 3
continents to quickly transform their MPLS-based network to an SD
WAN solution with intelligent routing control in a span of
12-weeks.
Since then, the team has access to real-time views
of the company’s network performance. The solution also gives the
team access to a convenient dashboard to manage endpoints
centrally, deploy policies on demand and modify configurations at
endpoints deployed across the globe in a matter of minutes. This is
in addition to automatically routing traffic across different
network paths based on demands, application needs and network
quality. Crucially, since the deployment, CG has seen a 27% savings
in cost. “Cost reduction was a key factor in our decision to switch
technologies but also another key benefit since the migration has
been the effective utilization of redundant network assets such as
unused dual internet links,” said Mr. Jai Sisodia, Chief
Information Officer, CG.
Robert Le Busque, Managing Director of Verizon’s
Australia, New Zealand and India business said: “We are seeing
robust SD WAN deployments across the globe that sit on MPLS
connections. And although many companies see SD WAN as disruptive,
when it enables CIOs to better manage costs and enhance network
control, it becomes a hard proposition to turn down. We’re pleased
that we’ve been able to deploy a game-changing solution for CG so
quickly and look forward to continuing our relationship into the
future.”
Find out more about Verizon’s ecosystem of
on-demand Virtual Network Services and SDN
solutions at:
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/networking/managed-network-services/.
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