Case Study: Agricultural Bank of China achieves a more reliable, scalable network with Huawei

Bank Network Upgrades with Huawei

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) worked with Huawei to upgrade its complex nationwide banking network as part of an integrated big platform strategy. ABC needed to support 3 data centers, 5 service processing centers, more than 20,000 outlets, and hundreds of thousands of employees while replacing a legacy network with separate production and office environments.

Huawei rebuilt ABC’s network architecture, including the Tier-1 backbone and 36 Tier-1 branch data centers, using CE12800 data center switches, S9700 switches, and NE40E routers. The new design merged overlapping zones from 13 to 6, added firewall controls and redundancy for 99.999% core-node reliability, and raised core bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s with an upgrade path to 100 Gbit/s; the result was a stable launch of ABC’s new-generation core service system and improved scalability for the next five years.

Agricultural Bank of China