The Branch of the Future

ANP Presales Findings:

ANP completed a tariff review of the existing branch Frame Relay network and determined that a new clear T1 network would be less expensive, would significantly increase branch bandwidth and could be provisioned using a diverse path Sonet Ring at the bank datacenter to markedly improve availability.

Once the network transport had been re-engineered, ANP focused on improving network resiliency at the remote branch locations.  ANP designed into the solution automatic ISDN back up circuits which would dial-in to the largest branch location providing both branch redundancy and datacenter redundancy.

ANP proposed the use of routers that could easily upgrade to carry voice in the future, so the bank in the future could remove the key systems from their branch offices and give every branch employee extensions off of the corporate PBX.  ANP also proposed our Net eWare for WAN's to out-task the remote monitoring and management of the bank's router and WAN infrastructure.

The bank accepted ANP's proposal and and a written  Statement-of-Work was completed to document all project deliverables during the implementation engagement.

ANP Solution:

The bank now enjoys the performance and reliability of their new T1 network.  Because additional bandwidth was made available, the Loan application and teller terminals are now running smoothly.  The two new applications; corporate email and the Internet are also being delivered successfully.

The ISDN dial back-up is tested by the ANP Network Operations Center on a scheduled basis. The bank has not had a branch off-line since the new dial back-up network was installed.

The bank's IT employees can now focus 100% of their daily efforts of strategic bank projects because the day-to-day operation and support of the network has been successfully out-tasked to ANP.  The bank is considering deploying customer Kiosks to improve branch  customer touch.   The bank is also evaluating deploying IP Telephony to their remote branches.