Sri Lanka Ports Authority

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has probably the largest Local Area Network (LAN) in the country. SLPA is close to a mini city infrastructure than a typical enterprise customer. The fact that more 100 km of Fiber has been used to connect 40+ building spread in an area of 6km length gives justification to this statement.

The architecture of this large network comprises hierarchical design of core, distribution and campus components. Entire Network is being implemented with Cisco System, Inc switches. The core and distribution segments consists of 6000 series switches.

VSIS implemented the last phase of this port network expansion. But the networking team at VSIS has designed and implemented this entire network from the inception. The optical fiber network was built using Molex Premise Networks Structured Cabling System