Let’s face it—Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance industry has changed, but much of the infrastructure underneath it hasn’t.
Today, everything from instant UPI payments to cross-border remittances relies on a network that is expected to be invisible, invincible, and infinitely scalable. Customers won’t forgive a delay. Regulators won’t overlook a lapse. And financial leaders, quite rightly, won’t accept network infrastructure that’s anything less than resilient, compliant, and purpose-built.
Yet here we are—watching some of the most ambitious digital banking transformations in India and across the globe being powered by outdated, one-size-fits-all switching platforms. It’s time that changed.
At HFCL, we didn’t build our C2+/C3+ Network Switches to compete with generic enterprise-grade hardware. We built them because the BFSI industry needs a different kind of switch—a smarter, sharper, compliance-aware network layer that doesn’t just move packets, but enforces policy, preserves continuity, and protects reputation.
Because in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance industry, the cost of a missed transaction isn’t just operational—it’s emotional. It erodes trust.
Our network switches are built on a few non-negotiables we’ve learned from working closely with BFSI leaders:
- Compliance is not a checkbox—it’s architecture. Regulators expect real-time visibility, segmentation, and identity-based access control. Our switches bake in Zero Trust access at the hardware level—802.1X, MAC authentication, dynamic ACLs, and on-the-fly authorization changes that help you pass audits not with workarounds, but with confidence.
- Security must start at the switch. Firewalls won’t protect you if a rogue ATM or unauthorized PoS device finds its way onto the network. Our switching layer validates every user, every device, every time—because identity is the new perimeter.
- Scalability must make sense. There’s no point deploying power-hungry, overbuilt switches in ATM kiosks or small branches. Our modular, tiered architecture ensures that you deploy the right switch in the right place—8-port for edge nodes, 24-port for branch sites, 48-port for data centers—with centralized control and local agility.
Read more about how our Network Switches are reinventing network security for the BFSI Sector.
And here’s what no global OEM will tell you:
You shouldn’t have to pay extra for resilience. Or compliance. Or security.
You shouldn’t be locked into license agreements that punish scale. Or forced into platforms that weren’t designed with the complexities of Indian banking in mind. What you should expect—and demand—is a network switching infrastructure that knows the terrain. One that understands RBI audits. One that was built with NPCI volumes, not Western traffic loads, as a benchmark.
The future of banking won’t be written in apps or fintech sandboxes alone. It will be secured, segmented, and switched—at the infrastructure layer.
And at HFCL, we’re proud to be building that future.
“Because in the era of real-time banking, your network switch isn’t just hardware—it’s the frontline of trust, compliance, and continuity. And it’s time it started acting like it.”