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BUDGENS AND
OCADO SECURES CORE-TO-
LONDIS SELECT
INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
NETWORK SUPPLIER
O
nline supermarket, Ocado recently
announced it is building a hosting
environment for its online retail
operation with Juniper switches, routers and
integrated intrusion protection systems (IPS).
The Juniper solution provides a secure,
high-performance link between Ocado’s data
centre and the internet. The e-tailer expects
the Juniper solution to deliver signi� cant Fundamental to the connection of the data
cost savings via simpli� ed infrastructure and centre to the Internet, the M7i Multiservice
decreased operational overhead, optimised Edge Routers will be deployed at the network
performance and long-term investment edge to control application paths, provide
protection through scalability. quality-of-service (QoS) functionality, and identify
“Our customers expect fast, reliable and and discard denial-of-service (DoS) traf� c,
Musgrave Retail Partners has introduced a secure service from our website when placing while the EX 4200 line of switches will deliver
broadband-based private network solution online orders, so the network infrastructure demilitarised zone (DMZ) switching. The EX
from retail communications solution provider, is critical to our business model,” said Andy Series switches provide carrier-class reliability,
Vodat International to improve day-to-day Howard, network manager at Ocado. “We security risk management, and the scalability to
operations in Budgens and Londis stores. were looking for an innovative, robust hosting meet Ocado’s future web traf� c requirements.
The requirement was for a fully managed, environment, and Juniper’s high-performance To ensure the highest level of data security,
business-class Payment Card Industry Data network infrastructure with open and scalable the ISG1000s are also being deployed. These
Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant solutions has helped us achieve that objective. purpose-built, high-performance security
network, which could be used for value- The decision to bring the Internet hosting gateways integrate intrusion prevention with
added services in the future, such as uni� ed function in-house was made easier by Juniper proven � rewall and IPSec virtual private
communications, compliance auditing, store Networks JUNOS software, a single network network (VPN) technology to facilitate
equipment monitoring and electronic funds operating system integrating routing, switching application-level security at up to one gigabyte
transfer (EFT). and security services, which streamlines our per second of intrusion detection and
Mark Trevorrow, Musgrave Retail Partners operational overhead signi� cantly.” prevention (IDP) throughput. IDP protects
GB interim IT director said: “The introduction Ocado is deploying Juniper Networks M critical high-speed networks against the
of a PCI DSS compliant network for our Series Multiservice Edge Routers, together penetration and proliferation of existing and
Budgens and Londis retail partners will with EX Series Ethernet Switches and ISG1000 emerging application level threats such as
improve security across the business. With Integrated Security Gateways with IPS. worms, Trojans, spyware and malware.
more than 2,000 stores, this is an important
step for the company. The security will help
us to control information that is sent across
L’ORÉAL DEPLOYS
the network and in the long-term, there
will also be scope to use this for additional
MULTIMODAL VOICE SYSTEM
applications.”
Musgrave Group bought 13 stores from L’Oréal, has completed a series of enhancements to its existing voice solution based on Zetes’
Co-operative Group earlier this year, and used 3iV Crystal.
these sites for the pilot. Roll out to the whole With over 42 factories worldwide and 4.6 billion products manufactured in 2008, L’Oréal
estate was scheduled for launch in August. has re-engaged existing supplier, Zetes to update and extend its existing installation. The new
All issues connected with the new solution rolled out is a multimodal application, where voice is combined with barcoding and
private network will be dealt with by Vodat weighing systems to check orders. These systems have also been integrated with SAP, which
International, removing any requirement for steers the management of the L’Oréal warehouse.
Musgrave staff to monitor or resolve network Wendy Doucet, preparation and dispatch manager at L’Oréal said: “The results were visible
problems. as soon as the solution was up and running. “We recorded a sharp reduction in the number
Mike Bielinski, Vodat International chief of errors in the preparation of orders and thus improved the satisfaction of our customers.”
executive said: “This fully managed network Alain Wirtz, Zetes chief executive commented: “The combination of voice with other
will provide a more cost-ef� cient solution and technologies, such as barcoding or RFID [radio frequency identi� cation], opens up new
enable the introduction of other applications possibilities to improve the business processes in warehouses but also in other types of
such as; EFT processing and CCTV.” environment, for example in the back of store area for retailers.”
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