Brocade has announced that Omega Healthcare, a Business Process Outsourcing company in the healthcare sector, has standardised on a enterprise-wide Ethernet switching infrastructure from Brocade at its facilities in India to improve application and network performance.
These issues that Omega experienced with its legacy networking infrastructure had been causing frustration among the staff and adversely impacted employee satisfaction, leading to high attrition, company officials said.
Omega selected the Brocade BigIron RX for their network core and the Brocade FastIron Series switches to extend Power over Ethernet (PoE) at their network edge. This resulted in significantly faster application response times and screen refresh rates on the thousands of networked devices that access Omega’s campus-wide LAN.
“We were looking for a networking vendor whose core strength was in high-performance switching,” said Kamalraj Chandrasekharan, Associate Vice President-Technology, Omega Healthcare, India. “Brocade has a rich heritage of building high-performance solutions and its innovation track record in this arena was what we were looking for in building out our new enterprise network.”
“We as an organisation are now able to do things better and show the value add to our customers. Omega today is completely on Brocade as we are now deploying this solution in our US facility,” said Chandrasekharan.
“Brocade is committed to providing high quality switching solutions designed to improve network utilisation, maximise application availability, increase scalability, and dramatically simplify network architecture,” said Rajesh Kaul, Regional Director, Brocade, India. “Our partner, Orva Networks Pvt. Ltd worked with Omega Healthcare to design the solution on Brocade technology and we are delighted with returns the customer received,” added Kaul.