HCL Comnet bags National Insurance Company Network Management Order

HCL Comnet has bagged Rs 31Cr network management order from National Insurance Company (NIC), India's leading public sector general insurance company. Through project NICNet, HCL Comnet will set up and manage NIC's network across 1000 locations in India. A landmark project and one of the largest in the domain of network management, NICNet will be a turnkey solution deployment that will entail both on site and off site infrastructure management for a period of three years. HCL Comnet is partnering Cisco systems Inc, a leading global networking company for the project. Starting June 2003, the project entails setting up of a network to enable customer developed business applications, messaging and workflow applications and Voice and video-conferencing. Since voice and video are amongst the top priority applications an end-to-end QoS enabled network has been built with high resiliency for latency sensitive applications. A dedicated Network Operations Center (NOC) equipped with quality processes, best of breed tools and skilled workforce, will be set up at NIC's headquarters in Kolkata, to monitor and manage NIC's network across all locations.