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A cabling call that the IT team at Birla Tyres took almost a year ago is now serving the countrys fifth-largest tyre manufacturer well.
The Cat 6-based solution provides uninterrupted bandwidth and availability to meet the companys ever-growing applications requirements, ranging from data and voice to video.
Looking back, Birla Tyres was determined to take a holistic view of the cabling infrastructure, as it also planned to integrate the networking infrastructure at their two Orissa-based production units.
They believed that such an approach would not only save them on the overall capital expenditure but also lead to an improved ROI. The team evaluated a number of solutions from different vendors and even took inputs from external consultants to arrive at the best fit for the organisations strategic needs.
S Ojha, who is the IT Head at Birla Tyres Balasore unit says, Appropriate planning for cabling is a prerequisite to avoid any issues in the performance. Structured cabling indeed has come a long, long way from the times when it would attract only peripheral involvement of IT managers
Planning matters
When Birla Tyres planned to augment their production capacity to 500 tonnes of tyres per day, the IT team decided to take a close and careful look at the structured cabling plan, as part of the bigger IT infrastructure plan.
The company wanted to take a holistic view of the cabling infrastructure, as it also planned to integrate the networking infrastructure at their two Orissa-based production units. Of course, it was necessary that the solution be standards-compliant.
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