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Rockwell Automation has introduced its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, designed to help its customers reduce the time and cost to deploy and maintain complex network infrastructure while ensuring security and robustness.
IaaS can help to reduce the burden of network deployments by combining pre-engineered network solutions, on-site configuration and 24/7 remote monitoring into a single five-year contract. The result is more simplified ordering and commissioning upfront, and a solution that helps to improve network reliability long term. The service can also help to ease budgetary constraints by shifting networking costs from a capital expense to an operating expense.
All aspects of IaaS are aligned to a Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) reference architectures developed by Rockwell Automation and Cisco. Leveraging these technologies and architecture can help companies to better optimize their network infrastructure’s performance, efficiency and uptime, as well as address security risks.
IaaS is offered with two Rockwell Automation pre-engineered network solutions, including the Industrial Data Center (IDC) and the Industrial Network Distribution Solution (INDS). These solutions are designed for industrial use and technologies from Rockwell Automation Strategic Alliance partners Cisco, Panduit, and Microsoft.
The IDC provides the hardware and software required to transition to a virtualized environment, and is designed to help deliver high availability and fault tolerance. The INDS is a network distribution package that helps end users achieve a more secure, higher-capacity connectivity between the control room and the plant floor.
Under an IaaS contract, Rockwell Automation will size, assemble and test the infrastructure, including configuration and on-site deployment at the customer’s facility. Contracts include 24/7 remote monitoring of system parameters to help prevent outages and failures, as well as proactive system maintenance and checks to help improve reliability. Support response is guaranteed within 10 minutes, but actual response times average three minutes.