Sahara Next is an Offshore Development & Information Technology Outsourcing Company that provides services & solutions to varied enterprises worldwide. It’s a part of a $50 billion group (Sahara India Pariwar) and is managing one of the Largest IT & Telecom Infrastructure in India. The building comprises of 20 floors. And Sahara India Pariwar will have their facilities mainly on the ground, 2nd, 11th, 12th, 14th to 19th floors with a main communication closet (server room) on the 16th floor. Each floor will be provided with one communication closet (Tech-Room) that will deliver network connectivity to all workstations, cubicles, cabins, meeting & conference rooms etc. and 90% wireless signal strength to all floors. Access control and IP Surveillance were installed for all floor common areas, 100% coverage with local CMS (Command and Monitoring system) available on each floor security and master CMS room on basement.

The concern is to design, supply, install, test & commission the unified network infrastructure i.e. structured cabling system that shall be able to support all telecommunication applications (voice, data, building control systems, security, alarms, etc.) unified communication, self-defendable, scalable, agile and redundant switching, seamless wireless with mobility of all BYODs, voice, data and video infrastructure with a secured and unified security solution within the facility.

Our principal objective is to reduce the risk for Sahara India when designing and building the floors facility and at the same time offer a communication network infrastructure that can meet the future application needs.

State-of-the-art DataCenter:

We have supplied, design and integrated fire alarm system, rodent system, water leakage detection system and the cooling system.
1. Laying rack-to-rack UTP.
2. Laying multimode fiber cable from 16th floor to every floor.
3. Access control to data center at the site, since they were looking for a very robust and highly scalable database which should be compatible and gives high performance for mission critical applications to run round the clock.
4. Cold and Hot containment system.

Networking Solution:

We have supplied and deployed 70 nos. of extreme X460-24t, X450-48p, X450-24p, X440-48p and X440-24p switches in their network.
1. We have configured, L2 VLAN, L3 VLAN for every floor and routing through the core L3 switch.
2. Configured access control list for prevent routing between VLANs.
3. Configured Quality of Service for data, video and voice traffic.
4. Implemented ELRP (Extreme Loop Recovery Protocol) for layer 2 loop recovery.
5. Implemented MLAG for redundancy.
6. Implemented OSPF with MPLS for Lucknow connectivity.

Wireless Solution:

We have supplied and deployed 150 nos. of extreme ap4511 wireless access point and WM3600 controller in their network.
1. Configured wireless controller for managing all access point and wireless clients.
2. Implemented multiple SSID with 802.11n for every branch office.
3. Implemented LDAP integration for guest users and dot1x authentication.
4. Configured wireless IPS and wireless firewall for Rough AP detection and unauthorized client detection.
5. Configured smart RF for seamless roaming.

Voice Solution:

1. Implemented end to end IP telephony with Cisco Voice Technology.
2. Configured 500+ nos. of cp3905 IP phone, 800+ nos. cp6921 IP phone, CISCO Wi-Fi IP Phone and CISCO 2951 voice gateway router and two nos. of CUCM voice server.
3. Configured cluster between two CUCM servers.
4. Configured Internal Call Partition, Calling Search Space, logical partition, translation pattern and routing pattern for STD and ISD calls.
5. Configured Voice Gateway with two PRI for redundancy.
6. Configured Trunk between Mumbai CUCM to Lucknow EPABX.

All the major problems of this project were systematically solved by Insight in accordance to their priority requirements. By being a member of The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, Insight has taken the initiative to significantly reduce its carbon footprint while designing its premier network infrastructure solutions.