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KORE Telematics delivers 100 percent
uptime for mission-critical M2M
communications.
Challenge
Whether they are tracking vehicle fleets, processing transactions, or delivering health-
related information wirelessly, customers rely on the KORE Telematics’ network, which
covers more than 180 countries. As the world’s largest wireless network provider in the
rapidly expanding machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market, KORE connects
equipment, people, and information through a single business management platform,
accessible via API or secure web portal. The company partners with application, hardware,
and wireless operator partners to efficiently deliver M2M solutions for connected devices
across the globe, requiring KORE network and data center services to operate with the
greatest possible reliability, performance, and data security.
related information wirelessly, customers rely on the KORE Telematics’ network, which
covers more than 180 countries. As the world’s largest wireless network provider in the
rapidly expanding machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market, KORE connects
equipment, people, and information through a single business management platform,
accessible via API or secure web portal. The company partners with application, hardware,
and wireless operator partners to efficiently deliver M2M solutions for connected devices
across the globe, requiring KORE network and data center services to operate with the
greatest possible reliability, performance, and data security.
“At KORE, it’s never just about our business; we have to worry about our customers’
businesses,” says James Morris, director of network engineering and operations for
KORE Telematics. “Their mission-critical M2M data runs through our network and our data
centers. Downtime and outages are counterproductive to their businesses and can easily
cost them in both revenue and customers depending on the severity.”
businesses,” says James Morris, director of network engineering and operations for
KORE Telematics. “Their mission-critical M2M data runs through our network and our data
centers. Downtime and outages are counterproductive to their businesses and can easily
cost them in both revenue and customers depending on the severity.”
Telematics Provider Virtualizes with Unified
Data Center Solutions
• Customer Name: KORE Telematics
• Industry: Machine-to-machine
• Industry: Machine-to-machine
(M2M) communications provider
• Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Atlanta, GA; Winnipeg, Canada;
Melbourne, Sydney
• Number of Employees: 70
Challenge
• Support mission-critical, M2M
data communications
• Deliver exceptional quality of service
and help ensure security
• Sustain hundreds of thousands of
devices continuously joining the
network and scale to enable growth
Solution
• Two highly virtualized data centers
using Cisco Unified Data Center
solutions
• Solutions from Cisco partners EMC
and VMware to accommodate
growing demand and sustain
exceptional availability
Results
• Delivered 100 percent uptime
• With remote management, staff of
• With remote management, staff of
five can manage two data centers
• High-performance infrastructure
supports corporate, test/dev, and
customer environments
Executive Summary