The client was preparing for rolling out applications for internal use and for interfacing with their clients (Kenyan public) hence there was need for a highly available datacentre infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable applications access.
Challenges:
- Ensuring the public can access the applications fast and reliably.
- Ensure security is not compromised as it could be tantamount to government security compromise.
- Ensuring 99.99% systems availability.
Solution
- High availability datacentre LAN
- Unified fabric design to support servers’ consolidation and SAN access.
- 10Gig server access and 40Gig uplink to core.
- Cisco Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 6500
- Cisco ASA 5585 datacentre firewall
- F5 datacentre appliances for layer 7 applications security
Outcomes
- Efficient service delivery to citizens.
- Business high availability
- Reduced service queues in service halls
