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Higher Education

Brocade networking solutions enable institutions of higher education to cost-effectively deliver world-class education using innovative technologies that provide new ways of teaching and learning.

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Colleges and universities are demanding more from their networks. They need networks that can deliver innovative technologies and applications to attract leading researchers, enhance instruction, and reduce operating costs. At the same time, they need to meet demands for connectivity, data access, and security. And they need to scale to accommodate the growing number of mobile users, sophisticated network-connected devices, and network traffic.

More than 250 institutions of higher education rely on Brocade networking solutions to tackle these challenges and provide a high-quality learning experience. Brocade offers reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective networking solutions that deliver:

  • Increased network reliability and availability to support an anywhere, anytime communications infrastructure now and in the future
  • Strong end-to-end security to prevent unauthorized access to data
  • The ability to support wired/wireless traffic and unite devices on a single network
  • The ability to isolate different user groups (students, faculty, staff, and research) across the network
  • Improved network capacity and provisioning of separate networks to meet the demands of High-Performance Computing (HPC) required for research
  • A full range of professional services and technical support

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Abstract:

Together, Brocade® and Avaya offer educational institutions the ability to use communications to enrich academic life and differentiate educational programs. With network and IP telephony solutions that drive the convergence of voice, data, and multimedia communications, Brocade and Avaya help to ensure a higher return on investment and the highest quality real-time communications.

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Together, Brocade and McAfee understand that higher education institutions need to maximize every IT dollar, create measurable security programs, and make staff more skilled at resolving complex security threats before problems arise. With a joint Brocade and McAfee network protection solution, educators can cost-effectively protect everything on the network—users, data, and applications—from threats while creating an end-to-end infrastructure to support demanding education environments.

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With a joint infrastructure and IP-based communications solution, Brocade® and ShoreTel deliver a validated, interoperable Unified Communications (UC) solution that scales seamlessly to meet the needs of colleges and universities, without adding cost or complexity to the network.

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Isle of Wight College delivers innovative services to students and staff with a reliable, secure, and high-performance campus-wide wireless network from Brocade.

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This document examines ways to enable both personalized educational trends and the various technological trends that affect—or will soon affect—virtually every school.

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This document is one of a series examining the challenges, the opportunities, and the realities of how technological innovation is affecting the global education community

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This document examines five questions that K-12 school districts can ask to determine if their infrastructure will support their school’s needs three to five years from now.

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This document is one of a series examining the important considerations a school, a school district, or a college or university must take into account as they plan to deploy, extend, or enhance their e-learning capabilities.

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The Brocade® Mobility product family combines Wireless LAN (WLAN) access point and controller-based security services with wireless intrusion prevention to offer a unified suite of security capabilities, which not only deliver a more robust threat defense but also lower the total cost of implementing and maintaining a secure wireless network.

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Technological advances and trends, including improvements in WLAN performance and security, are encouraging IT administrators to consider wireless networks as a core part of every enterprise network. By simplifying wired and wireless deployment through integrated, end-to-end solutions, companies can significantly increase productivity and save costs to achieve unified and robust communications.

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This paper describes how institutions of higher learning can deploy wireless LANs to increase their connectivity options and securely deliver a wide range of applications and services to mobile users throughout their campus networks.