Faced with exponential development in demand for satellite tv for pc broadcaster and interactive TV companies, Tata Sky, one in every of India’s main Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite tv for pc broadcasters, has chosen a sophisticated networking system from Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) to considerably enhance knowledge heart capability.
Tata Sky has been utilizing Brocade FCX community switches for its name heart operations. Now, as a part of a broader improve at its key knowledge heart that additionally will increase knowledge storage system capability from Brocade, the corporate is ready to deploy an environment friendly and extremely scalable Ethernet cloth based mostly on Brocade VDX 6740 switches and Brocade VCS Fabric know-how.
Compared to the traditional three-tier switching infrastructure it can substitute, the Brocade community answer operates as a single layer and as a single digital system that delivers low-latency software efficiency and a a lot better person expertise.
“Tata Sky’s partnership with Brocade is strategic and long term. The core engineering talent and passion to deliver stands out at Brocade. We are planning to consolidate our data centers and Brocade will be our preferred networking partner. High throughput, no latency, and the highest level of automation are key features of Brocade technology that are directly relevant for our IT infrastructure,” mentioned Ravishanker.N, Chief Information Officer, Tata Sky Ltd.
“The explosive demand for increasingly high-resolution video content across all platforms is making the media and entertainment industry one of the hottest areas in terms of adopting new network technology,” mentioned Edgar Dias, senior regional director for Brocade India and SAARC. “Tata Sky will be moving straight to the leading edge with a data center Ethernet fabric that will enable it to scale its network almost effortlessly. The intelligent foundation for the increased virtualization of its data center operations will also give it the agility to better deal with spikes in service demand.”
As a part of this answer, Brocade VDX 6740 switches assist the VCS Fabric know-how, which permits a high-performance switching cluster of interconnected switches which might be manageable as a single system. By including switches to the fabric-which is an easy matter of activating the 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interconnects and powering up the devices-Tata Sky can be ready to get pleasure from linear knowledge heart scalability in cost-effective increments.
The Brocade VDX switches are designed to assist the high-bandwidth calls for of digital machine hosts, delivering a excessive density of wire-speed 10 GbE ports in a top-of-rack configuration. The low-latency port-to-port efficiency throughout the VCS cloth permits it to effectively handle the excessive degree of “East-West” visitors typical of cloud knowledge facilities. The VCS cloth can even present Tata Sky with a really excessive degree of community automation and digital machine consciousness, serving to to drastically improve the agility of its knowledge heart operations.
About Brocade
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking options assist the world’s main organizations transition easily to a world the place purposes and knowledge reside wherever. (www.brocade.com)
About Tata Sky
Launched in 2006, Tata Sky is a JV between the TATA Group and twenty first Century Fox. The firm has invested in state-of-the-art digital infrastructure, partnered with international leaders to present superior know-how and set-up high-end 24×7 name facilities throughout the nation manned by multi-lingual customer support associates.
The Tata Sky model has achieved important milestones, business accolades and is rated because the No 1 DTH model by the ET Brand Equity 2012 most trusted model survey. Recently Tata Sky+ HD has been rated because the Product of the Year, 2013 within the DTH class. The firm at the moment has a presence in 36,000 cities with over 14.5 million connections.
For extra data on Tata Sky, go to www.tatasky.com
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