Back to Case studyMaharashtra-Based Newspaper Publishing Company Achieves Excellent Connectivity With Smart VPN MPLS
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- All 48 customer locations came under one service provider.
- Single point of contact was made available 24x7x365 for any issues that might arise.
- A total of 1000 users across all locations came under MPLS.
- Good latency and SLA were provided, decreasing the downtime
- Centralised management of MPLS and ILL was assured.
- Productivity and services increased.
Introduction
The customer is a Maharashtra-based newspaper publishing company. It has five publications in three Indian languages - Marathi, Hindi, and Kannada. One of its Marathi publications is the second-largest newspaper in Maharashtra.
Business Challenges
The customer has 48 different locations in India and wanted to connect them all to achieve print media connectivity and central Internet management.
The customer was looking for reliable and secure connectivity under a single service provider for all the locations. They required a solution without complex configuration and infrastructure. They were also looking for a better SLA and excellent latency with minimum packet loss.
TTBS Solution
- TTL provided the customer with 48 MPLS links with Fibre, UBR & SmartVPN Wireless technology. The locations had variable bandwidths, such as 20 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 6 Mbps, 4 Mbps and 2 Mbps. The total users across all the locations were close to 1000.
- All 48 MPLS routers will be the default gateways for LAN. No other L3 devices will be used.
- There were eight major HUB locations: Aurangabad, Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Dhule, Latur and Shiravane. The ILL was in eight HUB locations with 30 Mbps and 10 Mbps each, and it needed a managed service with a firewall.
- The ILL and MPLS fibres would be different at HUB locations. In the event of the MPLS going down, ILL would be the automatic backup link for these locations, and vice-versa.
- ILL was to be the centralised Internet access point from all the eight locations. ILL breakout at the Spoke locations would be the nearest HUB location.
- Places to the nearest HUB locations would be the primary Internet point. If the nearest HUB location ILL goes down, then they have MPLS backup, but no ILL backup.
- The customer VPN was made available for 40 users across all locations so that they could connect to the LAN.
- Every location required five VPN clients for the eight ILL locations
