Millennium IT celebrates three years at its state- of-the-art IT facility

MILLENNIUM Information Technologies (MIT), Sri Lanka's premier applications creator and software solutions provider in the financial and telecom billing services, which caters to the international market, celebrates three years of continuous operations at it campus style corporate headquarters in Malabe.

Set on 17 acres of picturesque land in Malabe on the outskirts of Colombo, the current buildings can house up to 400 software professionals. Its Corporate Headquarters and Software Development operations are housed in separate buildings.

The total usable "office space" is around 70,000 sq ft whereas the total built up space amounts to around 110,000 sq ft.

The sporting facility comprise of a recreation centre for sports such as squash, badminton, basketball, and netball and includes a fully equipped gymnasium. The outdoor facilities include a cricket field, tennis courts and a swimming pool.

The accommodation facilities comprise 16 fully equipped rooms for staff "working late" or visitors/trainers from overseas. The accommodation building includes a fully equipped creche for staff with small children.

The creche is manned by a qualified teacher and helps young parents to focus on work with the knowledge that their children are "close by" and in "capable hands".

There is also a cafeteria and "fine dinning" restaurant facilities with meals being served three times a day.

There are also several environmentally friendly water features and rainwater harvesting techniques used throughout the site.

The complex operates on electricity drawn from the national grid. On-site generators supply power to the entire site on a permanent basis in the event of power failures. Underground fuel storage tanks allow the generators to be run for an entire month without the need for additional fuel supplies.

Cutting edge networking connectivity

Voice and data connectivity is provided at the site via a fibre optic line ensuring close to unlimited bandwidth. Designed by Cisco certified network architects, the network carries both voice and data through a single cable using Cisco's AVID technology, which also enables video conferencing.

Fibre and CAT 6 cabling (with redundancy) also connects each of the buildings at the site to each other and the backbone runs on a gigabyte ethernet. This ethernet backbone supports many applications such as voice telephony, Internet access, file transfers and other applications that work simultaneously on a single network.

The network architecture also enables it to dynamically assign priority to sensitive applications (e.g. voice over video conferencing).

The fibre network design is also based on a ring topology. This allows path redundancy, which means that a single point of failure in the network does not effect the smooth functioning in the other parts of the network.

In addition, Cisco Aeronaut wireless networking technology has been used to enable employees to access the network even from outdoor locations on site making the site fully Wi-Fi enabled.

The telephone network at the site is also fully IP (Internet Protocol) enabled with over 100 IP phones connected to the network. And, network architects have integrated a legacy PABX (Public Automated Branch Exchange) to the same network permitting other forms of phone traffic to operate on the same network.