Large State University Delivers Near-Limitless Possibilities to Researchers and Students
Large State University Delivers Near-Limitless Possibilities to Researchers and Students
4 Pages1 WWW.EXTREMENETWORKS.COM Case Study: Large State University This large university includes 24 campuses, 17,000 faculty and staff, 100,000 students, a teaching hospital, more than 500,000 active alumni, and an online World Campus. The IT team is central to the university’s scholarly mission. The university also conducts $150 million of federally funded research annually—all of which relies on the university’s network. University departments and colleges use centralized IT support to obtain networking infrastructure and services, such as voice over IP (VoIP), wireless, administrative computing, research computing, and Internet connections. Today, the network includes 4,000 LAN switches, 5,000 wireless access points, and 18,000 VoIP phones. Like many institutions, the university want
