The Customer:
The customer is a publicly listed, US based networking company that designs, builds, and installs sophisticated appliances that meet the toughest challenges in network automation, high availability of resource and services, change and configuration management, and orchestration.
The Project:
Feature implementation & enhancement, platform enablement and product bring-up
Tata Elxsi’s Solution:
- Development of a software platform for delivering secure name services (DNS/DNSSEC), IP address management (IPAM/DHCP), file transfer, and other core network services
- Port capacity planning and security discover inventory of Ethernet switch ports network-wide to intelligently optimize network infrastructure
- Mission critical network automation, configuration and management
Key Milestones:
- Enhanced network discovery to discover Virtual Hosts and IPv6 hosts
- Enhanced Grid technology to multilevel management
- Staged Upgrades of images in Grid environment
- Benchmarking and evaluating different databases which suits customer appliances
- SNMPv3 support
- Fedora-12 (Linux kernel 2.6.32.8) based new platform on the existing Clients appliances
- Virtualization environment based on KVM and UML for hosting customer specific or 3rd party apps
- 64 bit appliance bring up
- Network Partitioning - Optimizing the database related to network hosts
- Remote server management based on SNMPv3 protocol
Business Benefits:
- Offshore Development Center (ODC) model for infrastructure cost savings and enhanced security
- Being able to provide the niche engineering skill sets
- The account has been maintained with very low attrition rates
