The bxp Infrastructure

Contents

1 Overview

The bxp software (bxp) infrastructure is a multi-tier design to delivery high availability with our own private infrastructure within Sungard Availability Services campus in Parkwest.

Sungard provide numerous high level interconnects to provide redundant Internet connectivity.

1. Security
2. Load Balancing
3. Web
4. Database

2 Security

The firewalls are implemented using Cisco 5510s.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/asa-5500-series-next-generation-firewalls/product_data_sheet0900aecd802930c5.html

3 Load Balancing

The load balancers are implemented using CentOS on a virtualised basis.

4 Web

The web servers are implemented using Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 on a virtualised basis.

5 Database

The database servers are implemented using Windows 2008 R2 x64 on a dedicated rack server basis.