Having 24X7 operations across all facilities, high availability
and uptime are the critical components. The company has two facilities each in
Mumbai and Hyderabad, and each of these are connected to the parent companys
facility in the US. The India-based WAN network is a DS3 (45 Mbps) mesh network
with all sites interconnected. In the case of one link failing, the path can be
ensured through manual routing to reach and connect all sites. Similarly, in
case any of the connecting ATM links (DS3) fail on the international site,
parallel links take the complete load and continue services until the affected
links come back in operations.
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Anwer Bagdadi
Has worked
at:
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Started his journey as
shop floor engineer at New Standard Engineering
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Shifted track to IT and
joined Godrej & Boyce as a trainee computer programmer in 1979,
and went on to become functional programming head
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After working at Godrej
& Boyce for 11 years, shifted to a JV between GE and GodrejGodrej
GE Appliancesas CIO
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Worked at Lawkim (a
sister organization of Godrej) as VP
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Joined Epicentre before
joining CFC in 2004
Enjoys
doing: Traveling
and reading (fiction and non-fiction) books on management and technology |
"Each time a failure would lead us to change routes
manually and apply them to operate network in an optimal way. The affected
segment would be unavailable for 40-60 minutes, thus we were working with a
network in 98-99% uptime but could not better the same," Bagdadi says.
Recently, the company implemented dynamic routing (OSPF protocol) between India
WAN areas and international WAN links. Dynamic routing resolves the availability
and uptime problem by constructing routing tables automatically, based on
information carried by routing protocols, and allowing the network to act nearly
autonomously in avoiding network failures and blockages. This has enabled an
automated fail-over for traffic between India and US or among the India WAN
sites. "Now we are able to pursue and achieve uptime and availability in
the range of 99.9% and above," he adds.
Balance in Life
With career completely overshadowing most of our personal space, Bagdadi too
had to face the dilemma of choosing his work over family. But, as is said, behind
every successful man there is a woman; he too was fortunate to have Fehmida
as his life partner who completely understood the demands of building a budding
career. A homemaker in the real sense, Fehmida has been Bagdadis sounding
board for all his ideas for the past 27 years of marriage. "Marriage is a
two-way street where empathy is a vital element to make it successful."
Being always short on time means that the couple does not talk
shop, and travels for spending quality time together. Bonding with his two sonsDanish
studying computer engineering and Kashif, studying in class VIItops Bagdadis
priority list. "Both being in the growing stage, it is important for me to
spend quality time with them." Bagdadis spare time also sees him in a
new role, as a visiting faculty to colleges where he mentors students on their
future.
Stuti Das
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