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Tube Investments of India

Client Tube Investments of India consists of TI Cycles of India, Tube Products of India, TI Metal Forming (including Chains). The company manufactures bicycles, precision steel tubes and strips, car doorframes, automotive and industrial chains. The company has 13 manufacturing locations spread across India.
Requirements

 

Tube Investments of India, one of the India’s reputed engineering company, selected Net Access, to lead TII’s Network Operations, to design, implement and manage an Internet VPN across 13 manufacturing facilities, marketing offices in a multi-year deal.
Solution Net Access delivered the solution, which incorporated MPLS VPN across TII's 13 locations throughout India. Net Access’s unique Network Performance and Optimization skills allowed it to offer a cost effective solution in every location, selecting the optimal existing physical network of the TII’s IT assets. Net Access utilized around 4 different carriers to provide a solution aligned with TII’s business requirements. The deal followed a pilot project in which TII was impressed with the technical ability of the Net Access team, and the speed at which they were able to connect and configure a diverse range of sites. Net Access’s service focused approach combined with the focus on client’s need rather than maintenance of physical networks, helped to offer better solution.
Benefits Net Access has demonstrated that the Net Access Network Performance & Optimization model provides the flexibility and cost efficiency that enterprise customers are demanding from their suppliers. Furthermore, this deal is significant as it introduces an approach to manage IT Infrastructure in an efficient way.

What the customer thinks of the solution

“We believe that Net Access are a good fit with our model for IT service delivery and that they will sit well within our multi supplier framework. We are confident that the Net Access approach to manage our Network will deliver the high service levels, flexibility and costs benefits that our business requires to remain successful.” - S.V. Kaushik, Vice President - IT, Tube Investments.


Jassim Transport & Stevedoring Company WLL, Kuwait

Client Jassim Transport & Stevedoring Company (JTC) serves a variety of market segments across a large geographical region in the Middle East covering Ports, Equipment Leasing, Heavy Lift and Transportation and Contract Logistics.
Requirements Implementation of Active Directory and Exchange Implementation with Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition and Exchange 2007 Standard Edition on IBM Blade Servers and IBM NetApps SAN.
Background JTC was having a workgroup solution with no central administration control like Active Directory. There were no security policies in place. Email solution was outsourced to a third party. No central database to control email communication. No backup solutions for critical servers were in place. Centralized console for preventing virus was not in place.
Solution JTC servers were deployed in Zajil Internet Data Center, Kuwait with full power backup and cooling. Configured IBM Blade Center and NetApps SAN for the servers and storage with one hot spare server. JTC servers were connected to external storage with fiber channels with RAID 6 SAN, so as to ensure data availability and security. Implemented Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for backup of servers. Implemented Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition for domain controller and additional domain controller for central resource management. Primary DNS and Secondary DNS planned for redundancy. Configured Exchange 2007 Standard solution for email communication. Configured in such a manner that one server acts as a client access and hub transport server and other server acts as a mailbox server. Four of JTC sites were linked with 2Mbps DSL Link. Deployed firewall before servers to ensure network security.
Benefits With Active Directory JTC have a central database to control the users and apply security policies over organizational units. With Exchange 2007 email solution JTC has a central database to control email communication with other features like transport rules, journaling, mailbox policies, control over spam mails. With Symantec Endpoint JTC has central antivirus mechanism to administer problems related to viruses. With Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 JTC has backup for all critical servers

What the customer thinks of the solution

“We believe that UBG/Net Access are a good fit with our model for IT service delivery and that they will sit well within our multi supplier framework. We are confident that the UBG/Net Access approach to manage our Network will deliver the high service levels, flexibility and costs benefits that our business requires to remain successful.” - Harishankar Ramanathan, Head-MIS, JTC.