Aztecsoft-Replicating VLAN over WAN

The company wanted to ensure access to all network resources to its employees
across nine locations. Being a product engineering specialist, they need to
provide solutions to customers in the shortest possible time. So employees
needed remote access without complexity and without compromising on security.
Another requirement was platform- independent remote network support with
centralized management. So, the company decided to replicate VLAN across the
WAN. This would cause least impact due to the relocation of key personnel, and
contribute towards combating the high attrition rate. It was also decided to
have DR in the least turnaround time. For this, a fiber-based SDH backbone with
self healing ring was extended across all locations to establish intra-office
connectivity using EoSDH Services and Layer 2 MPLS-VPLS with Ethernet hand off
on last miles. This reduced the CPE costs and shortened project life cycles.
Bandwidth can be upgraded on the fly without changing the interface. The VLANs
were replicated across all locations using Q-in-Q trunking. Redundancy was taken
care of and they can now provide a max bandwidth of upto 6 Mbps across various
offices.

	Project Specs Business problem: Ensuring the sharing of LAN across all locations, and improving bandwidth IT solution: VLAN was replicated across all branches Impact: Achieved 99.9999% uptime after this deployment from 95% previously Implementation partner : Bharti
Nataraj N, CIO, Aztecsoft