Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch Leaflet
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
“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
“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
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
• 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
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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