14 DAY TRIAL // When competing on the race track with some of the world’s most important car manufacturers, fast cars are not the only important thing. You must also make sure that your IT infrastructure is fast, reliable, and secure. The British Lotus F1 Team is well aware of it.
The Lotus F1 Team has built a mission-critical network infrastructure based on solutions provided by Juniper Networks.
Lotus’ two data centers now rely on Juniper’s portfolio on switching, wireless LAN, security, application software solutions and routing.
LAN, WAN and remote connectivity will also be provided by Juniper at Grand Prix races and testing sessions.
As far as security is concerned, everything has been taken care of, from remote access to the core. The company is confident that it can maintain the highest level of data protection and privacy while ensuring that all systems are fast and reliable.
“From the design concept of each season's car, through component engineering and production to testing, qualifying and competing at each race, we have to deliver innovation and excellence with no margin for failure, error or delay,” Patrick Louis, CEO of Lotus F1 Team, commented.
“Our network underpins the entire operation, so we need a partner who is equally innovative and reliable, and who can secure the highly valuable data we share across the team. Juniper enables Lotus F1 Team to build the best network so we can strive to be the best grand prix team.”
Sean Dolan, senior vice president, EMEA at Juniper Networks, noted, “Grand prix racing is literally a fast-moving enterprise, with a highly-competitive, success-driven culture. Trackside conditions are particularly challenging, with heat, dust, vibration and the need to build and tear down a reliable, secure network infrastructure quickly in a new location every couple of weeks or so.”
Earlier this year, Lotus F1 Team signed contracts with Avanade and EMC.
Here is an interesting video released by Juniper:
