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NBN Co selects Cisco, VMware for datacentre
James Riley
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 14:54
Under an initial contract worth $9.5 million, Cisco was selected as lead implementation partner for the data centre infrastructure, leading a coalition of companies that includes storage vendor EMC and virtualisation specialist VMware.
The three-year contract is likely to be worth considerably more than the initial commitment, and has "scale up" provisions already written into it.
NBN Co said Cisco had won the contract after a copmpetitive tender to provide the data centre computing platform that unites computing, network, storage access, and virtualisation into a cohesive system to support NBN Co's business and operational systems.
The equipment will be housed at a Global Switch data centre in central Sydney, as well as anoth data centre location - most likely in Melbourne - that will soon be announced by the NBN Co.
NBN Co corporate service chief Kevin Brown said Cisco had been selected as a recognised leader and because of the strength of its Australian presence.
'We are pleased to have acquired yet another strategic supplier as we continue to construct the building blocks that underpin the operation of the NBN,' Brown said. 'We look forward to working with their 600-strong team in Australia as we develop the supporting infrastructure for the NBN.'
The solution to be deployed is based on Vblock technology from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, the collaboration of Cisco, E MC and VMWare.
VBlock supports the NBN Co core requirement of being flexible enough to scale rapidly to meet aggreesive roll-out and customer acquisition targets, as well as the agility to quickly add new services.
The Cisco Unified Computing System to unites computing, network and virtualisation resources into a single cohesive system.
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