Datacraft To Connect Retail Pharmacy Chain

Datacraft has partnered with an Asian integrated telecommunications services provider based in India, to connect an Indian pharmacy chain across the country.

In order to address local competition directly, the pharmacy chain decided to relocate its retail outlets to new sites. These new outlets needed to be connected with the existing pharmacy network to ensure a secured and effective email and voice communication for the chain. As many of these stores are located within the rural part of India, network connectivity is key in ensuring effective collaboration and management.

“We were approached by the telecommunications company to customise network infrastructure for one of India’s largest pharmacy chains,” said Sunil Manglore, CEO, Datacraft India. “Our responsibility is to design a cost effective solution that is highly available, scalable and secure, while taking into account the size and complexity of the project as well as the distributed nature of the retail outlets.”

In order to enable secure access to the corporate network with data encryption, it was essential to put together a Digital Subscriber Line-based (DSL-based) CUG VPN (or Closed User Group Virtual Private Network) network that would terminate at the service provider’s datacentre.