Data Centre Networking
We recognize that the data center is the heart of modern business operations. In an era of digital transformation, your data center network must be agile, scalable, and secure to handle the increasing demands of data traffic, storage, and computing.
We offer state-of-the-art data center networking solutions designed to optimize performance, reduce latency, and provide seamless connectivity across your enterprise.
The solution sets under this division are as follows.
- Datacentre Network Design and Architecture
- Deployment and Configuration of Datacentre Networking Hardware
- Vendor agnostic Network Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- High-Speed Connectivity Management at the Datacentre
- Datacentre Interconnect (DCI)
- Traffic Management and Load Balancing
What is Data Center Networking?
Data Centre Networking is a department responsible for managing the network infrastructure within a data center, which hosts servers, storage systems, and other critical IT resources.
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We recognize that the data center is the heart of modern business operations. In an era of digital transformation, your data center network must be agile, scalable, and secure to handle the increasing demands of data traffic, storage, and computing. We offer state-of-the-art data center networking solutions designed to optimize performance, reduce latency, and provide seamless connectivity across your enterprise.
Data Center Network Design and Architecture
- Planning and Design: Defining the network topology (spine-leaf, mesh, star), capacity, and scalability of the data center’s network architecture. This includes designing Layer 2 (Ethernet) and Layer 3 (IP) networks.
- Redundancy and Failover: Designing redundant paths and failover mechanisms to ensure high availability and fault tolerance, including dual data paths and multiple uplinks.
Deployment and Configuration of Networking Hardware
- Switches and Routers: Deploying and configuring core, distribution, and access switches and routers that interconnect the servers, storage, and other resources.
- Firewalls and Load Balancers: Installing and configuring security devices such as firewalls to protect the data center, and load balancers to distribute traffic efficiently across multiple servers.
Network Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Network Virtualization: Implementing technologies like VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks) and VXLANs to create isolated network segments and enable multi-tenant environments.
- SDN Implementation: Deploying software-defined networking solutions like Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, or OpenFlow to centralize network management, automate configurations, and enable dynamic traffic flows.
High-Speed Connectivity Management
- Link Aggregation: Managing high-speed links like 10/40/100 Gbps Ethernet connections and ensuring optimal utilization through link aggregation (e.g., LACP).
- Fiber Optic Networks: Handling the installation, management, and maintenance of high-capacity fiber optic connections that connect racks, servers, and storage arrays.
Security Management
- Segmentation and Isolation: Ensuring proper network segmentation to isolate workloads and secure critical assets. This involves implementing micro-segmentation in virtualized environments.
- Zero Trust Architecture: Implementing security protocols where every access request within the data center must be authenticated and authorized, regardless of whether it originates inside or outside the network perimeter.
- DDoS Protection: Deploying measures to protect the data center network from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Storage Area Network (SAN) Management
- SAN Design: Configuring and managing the network that connects storage devices (e.g., SAN switches, fiber channels) to ensure fast and reliable data storage and retrieval.
- Fibre Channel Networks: Managing Fibre Channel (FC) networks or iSCSI setups to connect servers with storage arrays, facilitating block-level storage and high-performance data access.
Traffic Management and Load Balancing
- Traffic Optimization: Using technologies like traffic shaping, QoS (Quality of Service), and load balancing to optimize network performance and ensure data flows efficiently between data center resources.
- East-West Traffic: Managing internal (east-west) traffic between servers within the data center, which is increasingly important in highly virtualized or containerized environments.
Automation and Orchestration
- Network Automation: Implementing automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, or SaltStack to automate repetitive network management tasks, such as configuration changes, firmware updates, and device provisioning.
- Orchestration: Using orchestration platforms to manage complex network workflows, integrating network functions with compute and storage in a seamless manner.
Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
- Interconnecting Data Centers: Managing connections between multiple data centers, often using DCI technologies like MPLS, VPNs, or dark fiber. This ensures data replication, disaster recovery, and load sharing between locations.
- Latency Optimization: Optimizing the latency between interconnected data centers, especially in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Redundant Connections: Ensuring redundant network paths are available for failover in case of primary network failures. This may include the use of secondary ISPs, multiple data paths, or redundant power supplies for network devices.
- Network Backup and Restore: Creating backup configurations and restoring network services in the event of a failure or disaster, ensuring minimal downtime.
Documentation and Training
- Network Documentation: Maintaining detailed documentation of network topologies, device configurations, policies, and procedures.
- Training Staff: Training network administrators and engineers on new technologies, protocols, and best practices in data center networking.
