Project overview

Tokyo Electron Europe Limited

Project title

WAN upgrade and disaster recovery

Company name

Tokyo Electron Europe Limited

Industry sector

Manufacturing and engineering

Business description

Semiconductor manufacturing

No of company employees

300

Company locations

10 sites - Italy, Germany, France, UK and Netherlands

Location of company HQ

Crawley - UK

Technical infrastructure

KPN Qwest IP VPN WAN with no redundancy options

Project requirements

Manage the appointment of a new carrier and install a new secure inter office WAN:

  • Implementing two levels of failover using IPVPN; DSL and ISDN, and installing new Cisco routing hardware to automate the management the disaster recovery options
  • Installing a 34Mbps centralised European Internet access in the UK for greater security and monitoring capabilities
  • Providing a single point of contact support for WAN and routing hardware
Project description
  • Data collection of IP schemes for existing WAN, routing configurations and traffic levels to define new IP Schema
  • Provision of primary WAN - NTT DoCoMo, secondary WAN - public DSL based VPN, and tertiary WAN using ISDN 2 and 30
  • Provision of Internet Access - BT Net Flex
  • Installation of migration routers at HQ to ensure smooth transition between KPN Qwest and BT WAN
  • Integration and migration of 10 remote offices to new BT WAN
  • LAN integration, including application performance checks to ensure uninterrupted operation
  • Failover checks and disaster recovery testing to ensure automated failover to secondary and tertiary WAN
  • Security penetration testing of each remote location
  • Hardware and software telephone support and remote WAN monitoring
  • Ongoing monthly service reviews focusing on availability, throughput and utilisation, firmware upgrades for latest protection, regular security penetration testing
Products supplied
New BT Net Flex Internet access, Cisco PIX firewalls, Cisco 3640 VPN concentrator, Cisco 2621 routers, Cisco 1721 routers