Asian Paints Deploys Force10 To Power Data Centre

Asian Paints has deployed the C-Series resilient switch from Force10 Networks at its data centre in Mumbai, India. The Force C150 switch will serve as the network backbone for the paint company, supporting its growing application landscape and its expanding global distribution network.

“Organic growth, several acquisitions throughout Asia, and inferior legacy equipment left our network in a position that was not up to the challenge of continuing expansion,” says M R Parasuram, chief manager of IT, Asian Paints. “Deploying the C-Series gave our network the reliability, performance, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness we required to improve existing network services and implement new capabilities that could best support our business, both today and in the future.”

To deliver network services and enable server virtualisation and on-demand capacity provisioning in the immediate future, Asian Paints required significant performance improvements. Deploying the Force10 C150 resilient switch, the Asian Paints IT staff was able to leverage the C150’s non-blocking copper backplane capacity of 768 gigabits per second.

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By providing up to 192 line-rate 10/100/1000Base-T ports per device, the C150 delivers port density that enables seamless network expansion as the company continues to grow and support additional applications. This density also gave Asian Paints additional flexibility where they could afford to deploy an additional C150 device at their disaster recovery facility without concern about having to quickly add another switch at their primary data centre.

“Asian Paints’ growth is indicative of many other companies worldwide that must cost-effectively build network infrastructures that reliably deliver network services to a growing, more geographically dispersed customer base,” says Stephen Garrison, vice president of Marketing at Force10 Networks. “The C-Series delivers the reliability and flexibility to enable customized networks that can deliver the most optimum ROI and long-term investment protection.”

The Force10 Reliable Networking(TM) product portfolio supports advances in reliability, network control and scalability that enable enterprises to lower their total cost of ownership. By building a flexible network that is ready to support emerging and evolving applications, enterprises can optimize their networks for current needs as well as future requirements.