Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) has announced that the UAE Ministry of Justice (MoJ), a Federal Government agency entrusted with the development of the country’s judicial system, has modernized its data centre infrastructure at its Sharjah Court building by replacing the core and edge switches of the network with a campus solution from Brocade.
Built in 2006, the Sharjah Court is the biggest MoJ building in the UAE and also the Disaster Recovery (DR) site supporting 13 other branches across the region. With the huge increase volume of transactions every day with over 1000 customers accessing all kinds of legal services, 1045 notary service transactions and 66 cases being filed per day, as well as a number of e-service applications running on the system, bottlenecks developed in the network. It experienced downtime at least three or four times a month and applications running on it became sluggish. Additionally, most of MoJ’s network traffic was being routed through the Abu Dhabi data centre which from a networking point of view was important to offload part of this traffic to the Sharjah site. All this necessitated an overhaul of the data centre.
The network project started in December 2013 and took three months to complete including planning, design of the project, procurement, delivery of equipment, implementation and testing. The actual implementation was carried out by the Ministry of Justice Network team and Seven IT with support from the technical team at Brocade. Testing the system took just a week. Two Brocade FastIron SX800 switches were installed to provide campus aggregation and core switching. Twenty-five Brocade ICX6430-48P and ten ICX6430-24P switches provided enterprise-class stackable switching at an entry-level price, allowing Ministry of Justice to buy only what they need today and easily scale user ports and services as their network requirements evolve.
Nazar Awad El Karim Mohammed Ahmed, head of IT infrastructure division, Ministry of Justice says, “The results prove that we’ve done the right job. Just on the first day after the deployment, we noticed from our dashboards that the throughput and performance has improved by almost 50 percent which is outstanding. That increase in performance is something that you don’t see every day. End-users are very pleased and their feedback was beyond our expectations. They have found the applications are more responsive, the traffic is speedier and more flexible. At the user level, we reached 100 percent acceptance. Besides the system is very stable now.”
“We will continue to work closely with Brocade in the future as technologies and our requirements evolve. It’s a long journey to achieve customer satisfaction and our customers have high expectations.”
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