Setting up a scalable and reliable Wide Area Network for a large public sector bank in India

Customer Context: Our customer is a public sector bank with over 10,000 employees and a unique distinction of 97 years of successful Banking. The bank has been conferred with the prestigious " Asian Banking Award "for its dedicated service.

The Requirement: The bank has a spread of over 800 branches all over the country. In order to extend its reach and operability as well as to introduce new banking services quickly, the bank decided to network its more than 800 branches with a Wide Area Network.

The bank wanted an architecture that could be built over phases to support its existing distributed banking, besides catering to its needs for central banking application for the future. The immediate scalability would extend to more than 800 branches. The bank wanted a common backbone which would support integration of multiple network services (voice /data).

The Solution: Netsol adopted a phased strategy for this requirement.

System Study

• Business Requirement Study


• Technical Study

Design and Documentation

Application Profiling

• Architecture and Topology Design with Technology and Media selection


• Routing Architecture Design and Routing Protocol Selection

IP addressing Scheme

• NMS Architecture


• Performance and Feature Requirement with Equipment Sizing and selection criteria definition

The Benefits: The WAN design helped the Bank in significantly achieving its requirement of introducing new banking services. Besides this, Netsol also helped the bank in achieving the following benefits:

• A robust WAN design - Highly scalable, reliable, available and manageable


• Return on Investment(ROI) - Risk Free Multi Service Integration


• Low cost of ownership- Price/ Performance Analysis, Options, Considerationsand  Comparisons


• Investment Protection- Suitable Technology and Product Recommendations


• Budget Planning and Investment Planning


• Access to proven methodology, approach and knowledgebase