Bajaj Capital Deploys Juniper's Wired And Wireless Campus Network

Juniper Networks, the network innovation provider, has announced that financial planning and investment advisory firm Bajaj Capital has deployed an integrated wired and wireless campus network running on the Juniper Networks Junos operating system. The Juniper Networks solution enables Bajaj Capital Group to increase network performance and availability at its head office, while increasing security and reducing its operating costs.

With its entire network infrastructure running on Junos, Bajaj Capital is able to simplify its management and apply fine-grained security and quality-of-service control across wired and wireless networks.
The new network is built around a core of Juniper Networks EX4200 Ethernet Switches linked with Virtual Chassis technology, which supports the Bajaj Capital server farm that runs the company’s core SAP business applications, a suite of financial planning applications, the on-line broking system, a web-based customer trading platform and office automation systems.

Network access is provided through EX2200 Ethernet Switches and AX411 Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Points controlled by SRX Series Services Gateways, which consolidate separate security requirements like firewall and Unified Threat Management onto a single platform.

Together with the ability to manage the wireless APs, Bajaj Capital is able to manage its infrastructure and security more effectively while delivering fast and consistent service quality.

Bajaj Capital’s customer base serves more than a million individual investors and over 3,000 institutional clients. It offers customers “360° Financial Planning,” investment research, securities, funds and insurance both online and through a network of over 200 investment centres around India.

“Juniper Networks has enabled us to realise our vision of a much more powerful, capable, secure and available head-office network, which helps drive customer service delivery across the group. From a CIO perspective, streamlined network and security management that seamlessly spans the wired and wireless network is a huge benefit in terms of lowering operational cost and having peace of mind,” said Jijy Oommen, CIO, Bajaj Capital Group

“Bajaj Capital is very much the marquee firm in the field of financial planning and investment advice, and is another strong player in India’s banking and financial services sector that has opted for Juniper Networks. By embracing our ‘Simply Connected’ campus networking solution, it is now well-positioned maximise the benefits of wireless networking while delivering rock-solid quality-of-service to its internal and external customers,” said Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks.