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Cisco, Wipro to deploy WAN soln in United Bank

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KOLKATA, INDIA: Cisco on Monday announced that United Bank of India (UBI) has chosen to deploy Cisco’s wide area network optimization (WAN) solution across all of its branches.

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The solution, to be deployed by Wipro, will help enable UBI’s vision of providing the benefits of banking to rural and agricultural economies, and to India’s burgeoning small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, said a press release.

The solution will include 1,600 plus Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices, Cisco’s comprehensive WAN optimization solution, in addition to application accelerators for the data centre and disaster recovery sites.

Bhaskar Sen, chairman and managing director, UBI, said, “We are extremely satisfied with the proof of concept done by Cisco, which resulted in significant benefits at the remote locations. With the final deployment, we are confident of being able to better communicate and collaborate with our remote branches, effectively serve our customers with minimal turnaround time and leverage Cisco’s superior video capabilities to bring down travel costs.

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He added that this is a step forward in strengthening its position of being a preferred bank for our customers through a process of continuous improvement.

The comprehensive solution will address the challenges of maintaining and increasing productivity levels at UBI’s remote branch locations. It will also help branches accelerate application traffic over the WAN by providing local hosting of branch-office IT services, allowing IT departments to centralize applications and storage in the data centre.

The new solution also facilitates bandwidth-intensive applications over the network at UBI's remote branch locations, enabling the effective use of video-based conferencing and collaboration solutions. By maintaining local area network (LAN)-like application performance over the WAN and reducing the branch-office device footprint, the solution is expected to help increase employee productivity, decrease satellite latency, and provide savings in branch server hardware, maintenance and administration costs.

Vikas Srivastava, VP, Infrastructure Technology Solutions, Wipro said, “We are delighted to have been selected by UBI Bank for deploying the WAN optimization solution for all its branches across the country. The engagement involves commissioning, implementation and integration of the solution with UBI’s existing WAN network.”