This Department of Customs is the government agency responsible for the administration and enforcement of customs and related laws in the country. Their mission is to collect taxes and provide customs facilitation to the trade and industrial sector while improving compliance with legislations to protect the nation’s economic, social and security interests. The quick process of documentation and system availability is a key requirement to the department. To keep up with the growing data flows and changing requirements, they need to replace the outdated infrastructure established many years ago with a new solution that ensures high speed and continuous operation of the system.

The Solution

The Department of Customs requires both data redundancy and system redundancy to ensure both data and system availability in case of failure or unforeseen disasters. And to protect the vital resources and documents within the data centers, a robust and secured system becomes imperative to the networking system. Therefore, Edge-Core 10-slot Layer 3 Chassis Switch ES4710BD and Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet Standalone switches ES4626 are chosen to deploy the fully redundant, 10G ring. The 10G modules of ES4710BD support 2 ports for downlink to L3 Gigabit distribution layer switches, aggregating them to the core layer, and preventing port bottlenecks in Gigabit switches. Furthermore, every module of ES4710BD is hot swappable, ensuring continued operation of the system while adding or removing a module. 

Featuring 2 optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules for 10G uplink, the Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet Standalone Switch, ES4626, serves to enable VRRP feature that prevents system from failing by dynamically backing up multiple L3 switches for routing.

The Conclusion

Due to the fact that Edge-Core's ES4626 have been successfully deployed in the Edge Access Layer in the last project few years back, Edge-Core have gained the trust of the Department of Customs for its service, support and product reliability. This time Edge-Core's total redundancy solution has also been successfully deployed to ensure the stable, quick and smooth operation of the Department of Customs.

'We are very honored to be chosen out of the competitors in this government project again to offer the most reliable full redundancy solution. ' James Liu, Senior Director of Accton Brand Business Unit said. 'The reliability and high cost-performance have been crucial in the success of the deployment of the networking solution that exactly fits the need for the Department of Customs.'

Introducing Edge-Core L3 Switches

l     10 Slots L3 Chassis Switch - ES4710BD

The Edge-Core ES4710BD can work in single or redundant management module mode. Slot configuration can be any combination of network interface modules and 1 or 2 management modules. With redundant power supply, fans, and management modules, ES4710BD ensures continuous operation and is a fully redundant system. Moreover, all parts are hot swappable. They can be added or exchanged without interrupting the whole system.

l     L3 Gigabit Ethernet Standalone Switch - ES4626

ES4626 delivers high-performance, hardware based IP routing as well as comprehensive QoS, IPv6 management and routing for future network. Featuring 20 1000BASE-T ports and 4 combo Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45/SFP ports and 2 slots for an optional 10GE module, ES4626 is ideal for aggregating servers in the distribution layer of three-tier networks, providing high performance, wire speed L2 switching and L3 routing.