Orange Business Services built SD-WAN network for ABB in Russia

2021: Network Infrastructure Upgrade

Orange Business Services On June 16, 2021, the company announced that it, together with the Russian IT the specialists of the international industrial corporation ABB , had modernized the network infrastructure. ABB Russia The deployed software-defined network () SD-WAN will link ABB offices and production sites located in. to the country Advanced cloud technologies optimize management, expand functionality and enhance IT Infrastructure company protection.

As part of the first phase of the project, Orange Business Services deployed the SD-WAN software platform in the virtual environment of the data center of the Russian division of the Swiss ABB, specializing in products and solutions in the field of electrical equipment, robotics, automation and electric drives. In Russia, the company has more than 20 offices, 3 production sites, training and service centers as of June 2021. The solution allows you to manage all nodes of a software-defined network from a single center, use fine-tuning security policies, and use intelligent traffic routing. In addition, improve or reduce the performance of enterprise applications to adjust network utilization.

The software-configurable platform allows you to dynamically route the traffic of applications - video surveillance, e-mail, telephony, CRM, etc. The system selects the data path itself if the channel used is clogged or unstable. In addition, the solution supports noise-resistant coding and packet duplication technologies, which is important for the stable operation of business-critical software.

As part of the project, Orange Business Services also installed specialized software on the customer's routers. When installing at ABB regional production sites, the equipment can remotely download settings on the SD-WAN platform in automatic mode. This approach also reduces hardware maintenance costs and increases the availability of IT services in remote regional offices.

ABB Russia has high requirements for the security of network infrastructure and enterprise applications, which are determined by the policy adopted in the ABB at the global level. As part of the planned replacement process for network equipment, we have comprehensively revised the approach to organizing a corporate network in accordance with current user requirements and the changing model of providing IT services. Orange Business Services has replaced a number of end-of-life telecommunications sites. The introduction of SD-WAN simplified the management of network infrastructure, making work with nodes and corporate resources even more flexible and convenient, "explained Vladimir Shevchenko, Director of Information Technology at ABV Russia.

ABB is a technology company that monitors trends and understands that the future is SD-WAN. Orange Business Services and ABB connect a long history of partnership: we began to collaborate back in the 90s of the XX century. In Russia, we have dozens of jointly implemented projects. Orange Business Services knows ABB's IT infrastructure well. In addition, we have experience migrating networks to SD-WAN technologies around the world, "said Richard van Wageningen, senior vice president of Orange Business Services, responsible for the IMEAR region (Russia, Middle East, Africa).