Allied Telesis has announced that Microscan - a Mumbai based multi-service provider has selected Allied Telesis' award winning SBx908 platform for their data center infrastructure. The solution will be deployed by Allied Telesis for Microscan's next generation data centre.

Led by Allied Telesis, the selected VC-Stack technology supports Microscan requirements for a data centre with the flexibility to scale and meet aggressive growth requirements and business agility to rapidly roll out new services. The unique capability of virtualization of network rollout to unite, compute, network and virtualize resources into a single cohesive system also helps Microscan to substantially improve the energy efficiency of its data centre.

Allied Telesis has taken the approach of delivering LAN switching capacity in a manner that allows for gradual increments. With a very affordable entry cost for standalone gigabit switches, further gigabit and 10-gigabit switching capacity can be gradually added by integrating new units into virtual chassis stacks. As older models are phased out of core switching roles, they can continue to be used in access or edge roles. At no point do you need to make a big investment into a single large chassis type switching unit that has no migration path when its useful life in the core is over. Moreover, building core switching capacity from discrete units provides flexibility as business needs change. Individual units of switching capacity can be moved to where there are needed, rather than having to remain concentrated in a monolithic core.

This development meets the current industry trend of moving to 'Green IT', and is an important theme in the move to virtualization as it helps eliminate the need for expensive, energy consuming equipment to stand effectively idle just to provide fail-over redundancy. In the virtualized network, failed hardware is simply removed from the available pool, while processing is seamlessly distributed across other units.

Allied Telesis' SBx908 platform provides an ideal platform for cloud-based services. Hundreds or thousands of users and devices are connected with a shared infrastructure. Layer 3 and feature-rich services allow data center administrators to achieve improved traffic engineering, recovery times, Quality of Service (QoS), network virtualization and convergence-thus improving performance with the added value of lowering total cost of ownership.