Reliance Jio has bagged order from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for providing software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution. The deployment will power IOCL’s retail automation and critical business processes, such as payment processing, daily price updates, remote desktop protocol (RDP) software and network monitoring with enterprise-grade connectivity, quality of service (QOS) and 24/7 support across 28 states and 8 union territories.
JioBusiness, the enterprise arm of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, will be deploying and managing SD-WAN for IOCL across its 7,200 retail outlets for a period of 5 years.
Commenting on the development, Prateek Pashine, Head, Enterprise, Jio, said, “It is a matter of great pride for Jio to have been selected by IOCL for this prestigious project. We look forward to support IOCL’s digital transformation journey by implementing the largest SD-WAN network in the country with our ‘Made in India’ managed network solution. Our extensive experience in large scale deployments equip us with the technical expertise to support IOCL in achieving higher performance benchmarks across their network and leverage Jio’s connectivity at each of the 7,200 sites. This will in fact be one of the largest deployments of SD-WAN solution in India across any Industry as well as in the oil and gas industry across Asia. Currently the solution deployment is in an advanced stage with over 2,000 retail outlets already on-boarded on Jio’s SD-WAN setup.”
Jio is uniquely placed to offer such integrated managed services using its:-
- end-to-end digital on-boarding platform with zero-touch SD-WAN provisioning, and
- an integrated view of all 7,200 retail outlets on a single world class network operations centre (NOC) interface.
