Oil India Limited, India's state-owned oil and gas company, has selected Juniper Networks, a self-proclaimed leader in secure, artificial intelligence-driven networks, to upgrade its data center and campus networks.
The upgrade is designed to support Oil India's sustainability and digital transformation goals, which will help India achieve its vision of energy independence, a goal the government hopes to achieve by 2047.
Oil India needed to update its network infrastructure so it could deploy applications and services and migrate them more seamlessly from one data center to another. Based on a history of successful collaboration, Oil India selected Juniper Networks to build a scalable and resilient data center and campus network that would be a key enabler in achieving this goal.
Juniper's QFX5120 series switches have been deployed in the data center at Oil India's headquarters in Duliajan, Assam, and the combination of QFX5120 and QFX5110 switches serves as a resilient campus core. Oil India also selected the EX4300 Series switch campus distribution layer with Spine-Leaf architecture and EVPN-VXLAN for the campus core.
With the EVPN-VXLAN architecture, the Oil India team can efficiently build and connect its primary data center, near-disaster recovery data center and campus core network in an agile, seamless and secure manner, according to Juniper. The network also supports the use of business process automation tools that help the OIl India team reduce workload and achieve faster turnaround times.
In the oil and gas sector, the security of critical infrastructure is critical. To protect Oil India's data centers, Juniper Networks SRX4200 Service Gateway, Director of Security, and Director of Junospace Networks have been selected to configure and manage application security, intelligence, and policy in their networks.
These new data centers also support Indian Oil's use of autonomous drones and video analytics to detect leaks faster and prevent illegal activity. This will enable Indian Oil to quickly and effectively address health, safety and environmental issues across 2,000 kilometers of pipelines.
