China ramps up presence on world energy stage

By Victor Ng | May 13, 2009

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A China Telecom subsidiary has appointed Datacraft to overhaul the global communication infrastructure of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), a leading integrated international energy company.

One of the largest oil and gas producers in China, CNPC is also a major oilfield service provider and a globally reputed engineering contractor. This US$2.5million contract will help strengthen CNPC’s competitive edge and further enhance China’s position as a key player in the global oil market.

Due to rapid expansion both at home and overseas, CNPC needed to revamp both its communication and networking capabilities to cope with increased demand and speed up accessibility throughout all its operations globally.

With offices in 48 countries across four continents, secure, reliable, round-the-clock network access is critical to the daily operations of the giant state-owned enterprise (SOE). Previously, international communication had been unstable and expensive due to the fact that many oil fields are in remote areas.

Datacraft was tasked with delivering a next-generation network infrastructure that offered a high level of availability and performance while reducing the total cost of operation. The ability to optimize recovery time from system and network failure was an also important requirement of the solution.

The project included the installation of over 200 Cisco 7609/2821 routers throughout 76 cities in the 48 countries. Carriers from four continents will host an MPLS VPN network with termination in Beijing. The VPN will carry sufficient bandwidth to link up all the sites into one platform.

More than 1,000 Cisco IP phones will be installed to connect all the major production sites, integrating high performance voice and data at a reduced cost. The new highly scalable network will offer the flexibility to support future applications such as videoconferencing and data centers.

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