BUSINESS OBJECTIVE: 60 PERCENT TCO REDUCTION, IMPROVED RECORDS SECURITY, EASE OF USE A large U.S. state university operates multiple teaching hospitals that cover numerous medical specialties as well as offering a number of research and remote telemedical treatment programs. A complex, expensive, and capacity-constrained three-tier legacy networking architecture was an increasing source of operational problems for the university’s hard-pressed IT department. The confluence of the university’s state-wide Internet-based network, HIPPA concerns and almost-daily intrusion attempts aimed at patient ID theft, led to the university’s initial interest in deploying an open, Pica8-based disaggregated white box network. Unique to Pica8, the dual control plane CrossFlow TM feature of the powerful

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