German tour operator moves business-critical IT to new fault-tolerant data center.
When alltours moved its headquarters, it also upgraded to a new data center. The German tour operator’s entire business depends on the accessibility of its systems, so the availability and reliability of the new solution was paramount.
As the largest group of independent tour operators in Germany, alltours has approximately 500 employees and annual turnover of roughly 1.5 billion euros. Its headquarters is located in Düsseldorf, from where alltours serves nearly two million travelers per year.
Overview
| Company | Alltours GmbH |
| Industry | Travel, Hospitality and Logistics |
| Products used | EX4300 |
| Region | EMEA |
Business Challenge
Fault tolerance, high availability, and scalability ranked as the most important criteria for alltours. Additionally, the architectural components of the network would need to work well together and be easy to maintain and operate, with zero downtime—even during software upgrades.
Business Solution
To build out its new data center infrastructure with an end-to-end network solution, alltours selected Juniper. QFX Series switches with multichassis link aggregation (MC-LAG) allow alltours to support both 10GbE and 40GbE interfaces, with space for future growth. EX Series Ethernet Switches are being used for top-of-rack deployment in Virtual Chassis configuration.
Business Results
The new data center network has had no outages since the move, which was completed in a single night. Additionally, the QFX Series switches will allow plenty of room for growth and enable a smooth and easy upgrade process when the time comes.
The Products
QFX network switches deliver industry-leading throughput and scalability, a comprehensive routing stack, the open programmability of Junos OS, and the broadest set of EVPN-VXLAN and IP fabric capabilities. Find your solution for data center spine and leaf switches, campus distribution and core, or data center gateway and interconnect.
The EX Series Ethernet Switches are cloud-ready, high-performance access and aggregation/core layer switches designed for enterprise branch, campus, and data center networks. Wired access networks don’t have to be complex—you can reduce risk and cost without compromising performance, quality, and innovation.
