JAO - Joint Allocation Office
JAO.eu is the central auction office for cross-border transmission capacity.
JAO.eu is borned from the merge between CASC.eu and CAO.
Profile
- Capacity Allocation Service Company - European cross border electrical capacity trading platform
- The central auction office for cross-border transmission capacity for Central Western Europe, the borders of Italy, Northern Switzerland and parts of Scandinavia
- JAO facilitates the purchasing and selling of transmission capacity by providing a single auction platform and point of contact
- Auctions run on a daily basis 365 days a year
- Consortium of 24 TSO (Transmission System Operator)
Challenge
- Highly critical industrial infrastructure
- 24/7/365 Availability & Support
- Short intervention time in case of disaster
- Collaboration with more than 10 of customer subcontractors (special applications)
- Over-night migration of existing platform into new environment with guaranty of no data loss
- Complex networking & multiple external connections
- Downtimes would cause several millions of financial losses, damage the corporate global image and could result into European electricity black-out
Solution
- EBRC advised & designed the fully new environment
- Dedicated & mutualised IT infrastructure fully managed by EBRC
- EBRC deployed a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with an integrated managed and fault tolerant telephony system
- Global project management and integration of subcontractors
- The solution provides a secured business continuity strategy
- 24/7/365 Availability, Monitoring & Infrastructure Support
- Very short SLA, intervention times and low RTO/RPO values
- On-Site & Back-Office Support
Benefits
- JAO.eu benefits from a higher security, stability, availability & support agreements within the same financial plan
- Thanks to EBRC Project Management and Service Delivery Standards, JAO.eu was able to concentrate on his business model (Prince2 & ITIL)
- Well organised over-night migration and Go-Live scenario
- Multiple Tier 1 ISP Operators connected to the platform
- Network & Telco improvements thanks EBRC advises
- High Security & compliance standards (ISO27001 & ISO20000)