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Challenge
One of the largest financial institutions in the Czech Republic, GE Money Bank is a fast 
growing full-service bank with an extensive network of branches and automated teller 
machines. Focusing on retail customers and small and medium-sized enterprises, it 
is a subsidiary of General Electric, one of the world’s strongest companies. Within its 
data centers, however, GE Money Bank was struggling with legacy switching platforms 
that were never designed to deal with high-speed ports and next-generation data 
center features. Furthermore, noticeable outages were experienced when switch 
software upgrades were carried out.
“We needed to upgrade our switching technology,” says Kamil Vojtíšek, IT manager 
for network and voice at GE Money Bank, “and we needed new features like server 
virtualization.” To assist with compliance, the bank also needed to partition the 
network to keep third party traffic separate from its own banking systems. 
Solution
GE Money Bank uses a range of Cisco technologies from LAN switches to Cisco 
TelePresence® and WebEx® Connect for collaboration. So it was naturally eager 
to investigate Cisco® data center innovation. A careful review showed that Cisco 
Nexus® 7000 Series Switches would rapidly pay back by helping enable the bank 
to cut the number of data center switching platform devices by 60 percent, from 
10 to four, reducing switch power consumption by 40 to 45 percent.
“It was a less expensive and more customizable solution,” says Vojtíšek. “We really 
liked the concept of preparing virtual switches using virtual device context and 
other advanced Nexus enabling technologies like Overlay Transport Virtualization 
and FabricPath.”
This approach allowed the bank to create a Layer 2 Spanning Tree Protocol-free 
network and have dynamic workload movement between the data centers with 
Layer 2 extension over a Layer 3 cloud. In fact, the company was so impressed 
that it decided to deploy Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, and 1000V Series 
Switches in both its data centers, which are 20 kilometers apart in the vicinity 
of Prague, connected via a dense wavelength-division multiplexing link.
Customer Case Study
Cisco Nexus, with unified fabric, helps GE Money Bank boost application availability and cut network 
port provisioning
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name: 
GE Money Bank
Industry: 
Financial Services
Location: 
Czech Republic
Number of Employees: 
4000
Challenge
• Enhance resilience through greater 
network uptime
• Improve service delivery 
• Maintain security across entire 
application estate
Solution
• Cisco Nexus unified fabric, introducing 
new features such as FabricPath and 
extending disaster recovery capabilities 
to cover all applications
Results
• Network port provisioning and overall 
uptime improved
• Enhanced disaster recovery capabilities 
with dynamic workload movement
• Total switches reduced from 10 to four, 
leading to 45 percent power saving
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