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Winning with Alteon 5412 at SK C&C – Case Study

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Asia

Product

Alteon 5412

Tech Stack

Application Delivery Controller (ADC)

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications
Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Business Operation

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence
Infrastructure Inspection

Services

System Integration
Training

About The Customer

Founded in 1991 and based in Seongnam, South Korea, SK C&C provides information technology (IT) services for telecommunications, financial, manufacturing, and public sectors. The company focuses on IT outsourcing, system integration, and consulting. Services include information system management, development and maintenance of applications, management of distributed systems, and IT training. SK C&C revenues in 2009 were $1.1 Billion. SK C&C designed a consolidation project to create a single highly-dense data center that provides web portal services to all fourteen subsidiaries of SK C&C.

The Challenge

SK C&C designed a consolidation project to create a single highly-dense data center that provides web portal services to all fourteen subsidiaries of SK C&C. In consolidating their data centers, SK C&C wanted to achieve two main objectives – greater cost reduction, and operational simplicity. Cost reduction evolves from consolidation of hardware, software and other infrastructure equipment, and operational simplicity is achieved by managing fewer data centers, which helps meet compliance requirements more easily, handle security threats more efficiently and enhance business agility faster. For its web portal, SK C&C designed a single data center with multiple server farms, each housing multiple servers running different applications. To support the growth in traffic to the companies’ web portals, SK C&C set a target of 10Gbps throughput capacity for each server farm. One active ADC and one backup ADC with four physical ports of 10GE each were designed to handle servers load balancing needs.

The Solution

SK C&C chose Radware’s Alteon Application Switch to provide the Application Delivery solution for this new, consolidated data center. Fourteen Alteon 5412 devices provide multiple server farms with an active-backup configuration of Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Alteon rose above other competing solutions in several aspects; first, Alteon demonstrated its proven stability and user-friendly CLI which SK C&C operational staff is already familiar and satisfied with; second, Alteon 5412 uniquely provides higher port density as it comes with four 10GE ports compared to only two ports for the competition – the additional two ports allow SK C&C to design a more flexible and fully-redundant network topology; and finally, Radware’s local technical support team demonstrated superiority and professionalism in addressing every technical aspect of the solution. To demonstrate that the Alteon 5412 is capable of meeting the customer requirements, Radware performed a Proof of Concept (PoC) in its labs, precisely simulating SK C&C environment and network traffic to validate that the solution successfully meets SK C&C expectations.

Operational Impact

SK C&C’s web portal is now able to support the increased traffic capacity and end-users it serves, as well as meet its current and future growth requirements.
The Alteon Application Switch solution guarantees service continuity to the customer’s mission-critical services as it is deployed in a High-Availability network topology utilizing Alteon’s enhanced implementation for High-Availability.
SK C&C succeeded in reducing its operational expenditures, such as training and integration costs, by choosing to refresh their existing ADC line with the latest Alteon 5412.

Quantitative Benefit

With the purchase of the new Alteon 5412 platforms, the customer benefits from Radware’s 5-year platform longevity guarantee, plus additional 3 years of support. This means that the SK C&C project lifetime can be extended to 8 years, which directly translates into reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and faster ROI for SK C&C.