Telecom network operator MTS India has utilized A10 Networks for an infrastructure solution that enables applications’ availability and performance to be up to mark and meet security compliance standards.
MTS India, which will be a part of Reliance Communications, had over 10 million wireless subscribers in 9 telecom circles in India and spanned more than 60 percent of the data user footprint in India.
MTS is now saving 70 percent cost on support renewals and maintenance cost.
A10 Networks, sharing a case study on the Indian telecom industry, conveyed that MTS India needed a robust infrastructure with minimum system downtime and an easily scalable system, to handle the increased growth of data traffic in its network.
The major issues faced were vulnerability to attacks, need for scalable solution to accommodate growth of data traffic in their network, slow page function affecting the usability of the application and network availability and performance affecting business negatively.
MTS India considered a number of ADC vendors for evaluation, before opting A10 Networks Thunder ADC with advanced SSL hardware acceleration for its data centers in Noida and Chennai.
No additional feature and performance licenses, improved performance enhancements by enabling web acceleration features, multi-tenancy and security function and the zero added licensing fees went to the advantage of A10 Networks.
A10 Networks conveys that the solution primarily designed for such traffic related usage, will help enable specialized servers to be available; and provide massive scalability to meet big data analytics demands; and increased protection from the heaviest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) bombardments.
By using A10 Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs), MTS went down from multiple load balancers into fewer pairs, with easy and fast migration to the solution, conveyed the release.
MTS is using the solution for resource allocation, scale and role based access control, and custom scripting to do advance traffic redirection.
MTS was previously using three pairs of ADC each from a different vendor along with a dedicated WAF but now is using four different solutions into one with additional GSLB solution.
The application vulnerabilities through the WAF were removed and web acceleration and L7 feature deployment enabled enhanced website response. Also features such as WAF and aFleX TCL scripting aided MTS to consolidate multiple load balancers into fewer pairs.
Also data center expansion requirements will be supported for the next three years without any incremental investment and the accelerated server response helps in better user experience.
MTS India deployed four Thunder ADC appliances to load balance multi-application servers and utilize features including L4-L7 load balancing, web acceleration via web caching, compression, connection reuse, A10 Networks aFleX Deep Packet Inspection Scripting Technology, access lists, session capturing and Web Application Firewall (WAF).
MTS has deployed A10 ADC solution for internal application as well as internet facing VAS application.
Following the success of deployment, MTS plans to provide more data and VAS services to be hosted behind the ADC based on projected growth for the next three to five years without requiring further investments.
Vina Krishnan
editor@telecomlead.com
