Cairo Amman Bank enhances its digital banking services through Aruba
By Edil Corneille
Cairo Amman Bank (CAB) has deployed its networking technology through Aruba, which is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The bank has apprised that the solutions have improved the performance, reliability and security of all digital services including internet and mobile banking. The total cost of ownership (TCO) is now three times lower than what it was for the previous network switching infrastructure.
In collaboration with Neogenesis, CAB replaced the switches across its entire network with the latest Aruba Campus Switching Architecture including Aruba-8400 series Core Switches, Aruba-8320 series Server Access Switches, Aruba-8320 series Aggregation Switches and Aruba-2930 POE+ enabled Edge Switches. This has increased the speed of the uplinks from 1G to 40G, thereby enhancing the bank’s digital services.
Ahmad Bilbeisi, CIO, Cairo Amman Bank expounded, “All digital systems and services are dependent on the underlying network. Efficiency of the Bank relies highly on online and mobile banking as well as the vast availability of ATM machines in remote locations.”
“An example of the key performance improvement is that the processing of over 400,000 salary transfer transactions, which previously took 8 hours is now completed successfully within only 30 minutes! The time required to back up the Bank’s CCTV data has been slashed by over 75%, while the previous issues relating to skips and jitter is eliminated,” Bilbeisi explicated.
The bank utilises an inbuilt MAC authentication feature on Aruba’s switches as a form of network access control. this exclusively ensures that only authenticated and authorised devices are able to access the network.
The bank deployed the Aruba Airwave Network Management which has assisted in the implementation of the technology. It has enabled the central configuration and management as well as the scheduling of updates such that these could be carried out even after business hours without any inconvenience to the customer.
CAB has revealed that it may be expanding its relationship with Aruba and NeoGenesis. The bank is keen to further enhance the security of its network with Aruba ClearPass which will give the IT department granular visibility, monitoring capabilities and control. The bank is on track to deploy this solution within the next 12 months and also expects to deploy Aruba’s SD-WAN and SD-Branch, Wi-Fi and location-based marketing solutions in the same timeframe.
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