United Bank of India : Gilat Card Integration in VPN

Due to the absence of integration of satellite and terrestrial network, UBI

had to provide two separate components -router & IDU in their branches. This led

to two separate points of failures and also they had to rely on HUB service

provider for configuring VSAT.

So it was decided to integrate the satellite with terrestrial network for which

Cisco VSAT NM card was chosen. A total of 393 sites were commissioned with the

NM-1VSAT-GILAT network module in primary and backup. The VSAT Network module was

installed in Cisco 2811 router which had the provision for inserting the module.

The network module fitted pre configured router was shipped to the sites. The

engineer was instructed for the connections to be made and as the router was

preconfigured, the site was connected effortlessly. The main advantage was

password based access in Gilat card over IDU based VSAT.