Case study highlighting how Fidelity uses NNT Change Tracker to guarantee the configuration integrity for a secure network infrastructure of over 3,000 network devices, comprising Cisco, Juniper, Vanguard (Motorola) switches and routers.
Providing the payment card transaction services infrastructure to dozens of US banks requires the highest levels of security, resilience and performance.
The scale and breadth of the connectivity requirements for the mixture of banking platforms and network types encompasses IBM Mainframes, HP/Tandem platforms, a mixture of ATM vendors, and a number of router and switch manufacturers to handle X.25, SNA and TCP/IP make this one of the most complex networks in operation today.
Controlling configuration settings and maintaining an accurate audit trail of changes made is critical, but the mixture of vendors and device types made this an expensive, complex and time consuming challenge.