Standards compliance company Applus+ has completed a deal with telecommunications provider BT to design, build and manage the network for Ireland’s National Car Test (NCT) service. The project currently involves elements from procuring hardware in the 46 local test centres, to hosting infrastructure in its Dublin Data Centre.
The design and rollout of a multi-protocol label switching network was the first phase in a three-year €3.5m contract, connecting the test centres to the Applus+ head office in Dublin as well as the Data Centre.
Having been awarded a 10-year contract by the Road Safety Authority, Applus+ took over the running of the NCT centres in January this year. The Spanish multinational had already worked with BT in its home market so there was already some synergy between the two companies that proved invaluable when it came to rolling out a new infrastructure in a new country, in a limited timeframe.
A key requirement of the contract was a business continuity plan that ensured each site would function in the event of network failure. Data can be held onsite until the connection is restored. When it’s back online the regional systems automatically synchronise with the head office. To provide further resilience, BT installed routers for switching over to a 3G network in the event of sustained downtime.
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