Secure connectivity for an investment management firm

Company Profile

Our customer is a quantitative investment management firm, founded in 2007 with over 450 employees globally. They are into the development and deployment of systematic investment strategies across a variety of asset classes in global markets, utilizing a proprietary research platform and investment process.

The Requirement

The customer wanted to have reliable and secure connectivity between their offices in India.

Challenge

The challenges identified were as follows:

• A layer 2 VPN service to connect two office locations located in Mumbai and Gurgaon
• CoS mix to be pr ovided keeping in mind the data traffic flowing between the sites
• 50 Mbps bandwidth required at both ends for L2 VPN Service
• Priority Ethernet service (EWS) in order to connect the two office locations

Solution

We offered secure, reliable L2 MPLS between Mumbai and Gurgaon with

• Pseudo wir e connections between locations by tagging respective VLANs
• EWS configuration on TCL-PEs
• L2TP tunnel from aggregation switch connecting to PE-Router
• Traffic segregation and forwarding to specific sites by utilising pre-defined VLAN Tags

Benefits

• Reduction in cost of network infrastructure
• Help customers reach geographies
• Easy deployment results in faster time to market
• Easy reach for all remote locations
• Easily scalable network