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BANGALORE: Cisco Systems today announced that GATI has selected Cisco-powered integrated Wide Area Network (WAN) that connects over 400 locations across the country for running centralized web-based applications.
Speaking on the deployment, GS Ravi Kumar, chief information officer, GATI Limited, said, “Our aim was to enhance our capability for delivering nationwide express cargo services and offer value-added services to our customers at competitive prices, like online tracking and real-time reporting of the progress of shipments along the delivery cycle.”
“We felt that Cisco was one vendor who could provide an end to end solution for connectivity and network security. A key benefit is that all these products coming from a single vendor, which helps in integration and management and gives better return on investment”, he added.
The 400 GATI office locations were distributed under 11 major concentration points and nearly 120 locations would connect to these concentration points. All other locations connect through Remote Access Server (RAS) or through Internet to the central servers for carrying out online transactions. All the concentration points connected through a VPN service provider.
In addition to data traffic, GATI Net also runs the Voice over IP (VOIP) solution over Cisco IP Phones and Call Manager for connecting domestic as well as international locations.
Jangoo Dalal, senior vice president-Enterprise, Cisco Systems India and SAARC said, “We are happy that GATI chose Cisco’s IP-based network solution that not only fulfilled all of its current requirements but also set the framework for network upgradation and expansion in the future.”
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