Wipro Technologies-Migration to MPLS-based WAN

With growing business needs, IT companies need improved bandwidth over their

WAN links, scalability, and with scattered IT skills, they need to ensure a

high-rate of mobility for their workforce. Keeping these concerns in mind, Wipro

decided to move from the legacy TDM-based network to an MPLS-based network.

Prior to this migration, Wipro's network consisted of point-to-point lease line

connectivity across all locations. Drawbacks of this setup included fixed

bandwidth, no scalability, network complexity, too many active components to

terminate the WAN link, and high running costs with low bandwidth. So, the

company's IT decision makers decided to go for a single service provider with

clear SLAs on uptime and latency. The migration from NLD to MPLS technology gave

benefits such as bandwidth scalability, cost saving, any-to-any communication,

quality of service (QoS) and traffic isolation among multiple clients.

The

company could also reduce the lead time interconnectivity of new offices to the

main datacenter. MPLS allows a Service Provider to have complete control over

parameters that are critical to offering its customers service guarantees with

regard to bandwidth throughputs, latencies and availability. The technology

enables secure Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to be built and allows scalability

that will make it possible to offer assured growth to its customers without

having to make significant investments. In the new design, each data center

would have two STM1 last mile with Ethernet handoff from two different service

providers. BGP routing protocol was used to route Public IP address to the

Internet. This ensured that the Internet traffic load would be distributed to

two datacenters. So, even if one data center or service provider POP went down,

Internet traffic would get routed via another datacenter. The company also put

together a virtual ODC concept on this network to enable usage of skills across

more than 35 locations in India.

Project Specs Business problem:Changing business dynamics demand more bandwidth and the flexibility to share IT resources amongst all branches IT solution:MPLS-based WAN provides increased bandwidth along with redundancy and QoS. Virtual ODC concept allows sharing of skills across different locations. Impact:The bandwidth has increased by three times, with a 20 percent reduction in costs. IT Implementation partner:Bharti Airtel

Jethin Chandran, Head - IT Infrastructure Planning and PMO, Wipro

This allows the workforce to access the same network resources across all

locations. This helped in addressing the high lead times of resource

fulfillment, high training costs and a high turnaround time. The complete

enterprise network has been outsourced to a managed service provider. Its

enhanced design has helped Wipro achieve 99.999% uptime.