Challenge With more than 30,000 students and a staff of approximately 4400, Comenius University is the largest tertiary education center in Slovakia. The university, located in the Slovak capital Bratislava, is mainly funded with government money because, in common with other Slovakian higher education centers, it does not charge tuition fees to European Union (EU) students. Little money has been available therefore to spend on IT infrastructure, a situation aggravated by the fact that until 2009 a four-year hold was in place on Bratislava universities applying for EU structural funds. As a result, the university’s fast Ethernet network, while based on a core of Cisco® technologies, had a diverse multivendor edge environment that had been built up piece by piece from money genera

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