Client description

Bharti Airtel Limited is India’s largest integrated and the first private telecom services provider with a footprint in all the 23 telecom circles in the country. Bharti Airtel, since its inception, has been at the forefront of technology and has steered the course of the telecom sector in the country with its world class products and services. The businesses at Bharti Airtel have been structured into three individual strategic business units including: Mobile Services, Airtel Telemedia Services and Enterprise Services.

The mobile business provides mobile and fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles, while the Airtel Telemedia Services business offers broadband and telephone services in 94 cities.

The Enterprise Services provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand.

Bharti Airtel had outsourced its IT operations to IBM and telecom operations to other network equipment providers (NEPs). With the expansion of its services that operate on the IT network, the existing infrastructure was getting severely loaded and was getting increasingly vulnerable to breakdown. Bharti Airtel needed to separate the traffic on the basis of IT and telecom applications, which required a segregation of the whole network.

Bharti Airtel engaged IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services (GTS-ITS) for its service requirements. As a part of the integrated communication solution, the GTS-ITS team assessed Bharti Airtel’s existing IT infrastructure and designed an integrated communication networking and optimization strategy. It also segregated the LAN/WAN infrastructure across the 23 circles within Bharti Airtel Ltd. The solution involved the supply of active, as well as, passive network infrastructure equipment including Cisco Catalyst Switches with Cisco Network Management and Cisco Routers with network integration and optimization. IBM Global solution alliance partner, Cisco, provided catalyst switches, routers and network management as part of the total solution.

International Airport Limited (BIAL) is the owner and operator of the new Bengaluru International Airport, a domestic and international airport located in Bangalore, India. BIAL, a public limited company, is registered under the Indian Companies Act. The new Bengaluru International Airport, a private-public venture, will be operated by the company for the next 30 years with an option to continue for another 30 years.

As a part of the new IT infrastructure at Bengaluru International Airport, which includes IBM System x and IBM System p hardware, BIAL needed to implement a new network. BIAL wanted to implement a robust, state-of-the-art network that would ensure around the clock availability and could easily scale to accommodate future growth.

Because of its existing relationship with IBM, BIAL turned to IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services to assist in implementing a new network. The IBM team delivered project management and implementation services, including integrating the company's new local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure, built on IBM equipment, into BIAL’s hub, mobile and static sites. The Global Technology Services team also provides BIAL with warranty support.

Fiat India Automobiles Private Limited (FIAPL) is a 50-50 Industrial Joint Venture between Fiat Group Automobiles S. p. A., (Fiat) and Tata Motors Limited (Tata)

Fiat, which holds a 50% stake in the Company and also owns and controls five internationally renowned brands: Fiat Automobiles, Alfa Romeo Automobiles, Lancia Automobiles, Abarth and Fiat Light Commercial Vehicles, the makers of renowned cars such as the Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Lancia besides the Fiat branded cars.

Tata Motors Limited, the other partner to the Joint Venture, is the largest automobile company in India, with revenues of Rs. 32,426 crores (USD 7.2 billion) in 2006-07. It is the leader in commercial vehicles in every segment and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle segments. The company is the world’s fifth largest medium and heavy commercial vehicle manufacturer and the world’s second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer.

Fiat India Automobile Private Ltd. is expanding its existing plan that is part of a joint venture between Tata Motors and Fiat India. The joint venture will increase Fiat India's productivity and additional cabling is required to upgrade and handle FIAT's growing IT environment.

IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services: GTS ITS Integrated Communications: Network Integration