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Taking A Consolidated Approach to Global Connectivity
Technology Category
- Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
The Challenge
Headquartered in the Nordics, this global bank offers a wide range of financial services that includes retail and corporate banking as well as asset management, stock trading and treasury services. Operating in 20 countries worldwide, optimizing its network for zero downtime and low latency is a business critical and vital endeavor. But this was proving a time-consuming and difficult challenge for the bank’s central IT team. Working with multiple local, national and regional suppliers – all providing services with different characteristics, standards and capabilities – meant it was no easy task to maintain the highest levels of performance and management needed across the entire infrastructure. To transform its operations, the bank turned to Telia Carrier to provide a streamlined global solution that would deliver the bandwidth, connectivity and predictability it needed – along with the freedom to control and route traffic according to its own protocols.
About The Customer
The customer is a global bank headquartered in the Nordics, offering a wide range of financial services including retail and corporate banking, asset management, stock trading, and treasury services. Operating in 20 countries worldwide, the bank serves international finance centers and institutional customers. The bank's central IT team faced challenges in optimizing its network for zero downtime and low latency, which are critical for its business operations. The bank needed a solution that could provide consistent, high-performance connectivity across its global operations, allowing it to control and route traffic according to its own protocols.
The Solution
With multiple data centers (DCs) and a cloud production environment, bulletproof connectivity and low-latency traffic forwarding is a mission critical must-have for the bank. Quite simply, all its systems and applications need to operate seamlessly together, with minimal risk and straight-through processing. Connecting the bank’s HQ, DCs and disaster recovery sites in all its home markets, Telia Carrier’s high-capacity fiber backbone core solution features metro-optical fiber links for connectivity to local DCs. Delivering the strict separation of geographically diverse networks needed to assure the high reliability and availability the bank needs, the solution incorporates Telia’s 100G-enabled wavelength services which deliver the L2/L3 protocol transparency requirements the bank needs to manage protocols such as CDP, MacSec and MTU jumbo frames. Internationally, Telia Carrier provides the bank with high capacity Layer 2 links that connect its international sites in a point-to-multi-point topology that links dual main sites with DC and disaster recovery sites in each country the bank operates in. This approach enables the bank to create and control its own routing principles through Telia Carrier’s protected MPLS backbone. A dedicated IP connection to Microsoft Azure provides the bank with the controlled, scalable and flexible private network connectivity it needs to its cloud services.
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