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- Padua Hospital Conducts Infrastructure Check-Up and Calls on Extreme Networks to Boost Network Health
- Padua Hospital was faced with network slowdowns and was often vulnerable to instability caused by traffic spikes and security threats. With a need to service over 5,000 users, the hospital needed a segmented and redundant network to ensure life-saving applications would work to serve its patients' needs 24/7. Padua Hospital...
- Tags: Hospital, Network, High-performance, Extreme Networks, Leadership, Healthcare, Networking, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Extreme Networks Supports Wireless Mobility at Patient Bedside for St. Johannes Hospital
- St. Johannes Hospital in Troisdorf-Sieglar, Germany, with just over 400 staff members, has more than 182 beds and treats approximately 8,800 inpatients and as many outpatients each year. The Hospital Information System HIS was looking to create a virtually paperless hospital operations chain in addition to its existing implementation of...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Extreme Networks, Wireless, Healthcare
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Slovenia's T-2 d.o.o. Uses Extreme Networks to Build Future-Ready Triple Play Platform
- T-2 d.o.o. is Slovenia's most innovative and fastest growing service provider. In order to deliver a new triple play service offering and support the highest-quality telephony and television services available in Slovenia, T-2 needed an alternative to the nation's copper-based infrastructure. After deciding to roll out its own fiber, T-2...
- Tags: Slovenia, Extreme Networks, T-2, Business Services, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Federal University of Sao Paulo Upgrades and Saves With Extreme Networks Gigabit Ethernet Solution
- The Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP was running an obsolete Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI network that was continuously on the brink of crashing. Designed to serve just 200 users and connect only 46 computers, the system could no longer handle the demand generated by its 7,000 users, including...
- Tags: Gigabit Ethernet, Extreme Networks, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Higher Education Network Provides Access to Resources Students Need for Enhanced Academic Experience
- National Institute of Technology, Rourkela NIT is one of the premier national level institutions for technical education in India. NIT needed to create a campus-wide infrastructure to connect more than 40 academic and residential buildings. While some of its resources were connected, such as a few of its workstations and...
- Tags: Education, Microsoft Access, Network, Avaya Inc., Extreme Networks
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Extreme Networks Makes the Grade for Marysville Schools
- The Marysville Exempted Village School District, or Marysville Schools as it is better known to students and staff, is a growing school district located approximately 20 miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio. These Schools had outdated network gear and needed a new infrastructure to support its plans for VoIP, wireless, and...
- Tags: Extreme Networks, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Extreme Networks Brings Lund University Up to Speed
- Lund University needed to upgrade its network to better serve students and manage growth of new applications and services. The University was seeking a network provider to upgrade their network backbone. Lund University upgraded to a robust and available solution from Extreme Networks, supporting its multiple campuses and existing Avaya...
- Tags: Lund University, Extreme Networks, Networking, VOIP, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Leveraging MPLS to Enhance Network Transport Capabilities
- As global internetworking infrastructures continue to evolve to support higher usage levels and the convergence of disparate types of service, network architects must increasingly wrestle with the challenges of efficiently routing/switching heterogeneous traffic across complex network structures. Service providers and enterprise network administrators both need maximum flexibility to de fine...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Enterprise Network, Extreme Networks, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Amman Stock Exchange Invests in a New and Innovative Network
- Amman Stock Exchange ASE wanted a network that was capable of handling a high traffic rate at wire-speed, with minimal network downtime and high availability. The network needed to handle future growth in an easy and non-disruptive manner; as well as meet the demands for disaster recovery. ASE also needed...
- Tags: Network, Stock Exchange, Extreme Networks, Networking
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS)
- The networking industry has relied on the Spanning Tree Protocol STP in large Layer 2 networks to provide a certain level of redundancy. However, STP has proven inadequate to provide the level of resiliency required for real-time and mission critical applications. It is important to note that the entire industry...
- Tags: Layer 2, Network, Extreme Networks, Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2006-11-01
- John C. Lincoln Health Network Revitalizes Infrastructure With Extreme Networks
- John C. Lincoln Health Network needed equipment that would not only support their current needs, but allow their network to exceed what they were doing at the time. They also wanted to add interesting new technology, such as Voice-over-IP VoIP, a Vocera communications system, and wireless network access for various...
- Tags: Extreme Networks, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Telephony, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Extreme Networks Delivers a Healthy High-Performance Infrastructure to UCSF Research Department
- The University of San Francisco's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics trains students, fellows and faculty in methods for studying disease etiology and prevention in general populations, evaluating diagnostic tests and treatment efficacy in clinical settings, and using evidence-based approaches in clinical practice. Of late, the department, with three sites in...
- Tags: Department, High-performance, Extreme Networks, University Of San Francisco, Leadership, Networking, Management
- Case studies 2006-08-01
- California School District Simplifies, Secures and Improves Performance of Infrastructure With Extreme Networks
- Of late, the district needed to upgrade their network performance and add switching, said Director of Technology with Panama-Buena Vista Union School District. Because of budget constraints, top priorities for a new solution included cost-effectiveness, scalability, ease of management, and performance. In addition, the new infrastructure would need to have...
- Tags: Performance, Extreme Networks, California School District, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2006-08-01
- UC Merced Goes Extreme Right From the Start
- UC Merced needed a solution based on open standards. They were looking for a network that would provide them with strong management capabilities so that they could spend less time managing the network and more time focusing on how to make the infrastructure an even more powerful research tool. And...
- Tags: Merced, Extreme Networks, UC Merced, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2006-04-01
- Extreme Networks Delivers High-Performance Infrastructure for Powerful ShoreTel IP Telephony Solution
- IIMAK (International Imaging Materials, Inc.) is North America's leading manufacturer of thermal transfer ribbons. IIMAK needed to upgrade its infrastructure in order to keep up with its financial, administrative, and order fulfillment applications. The previous 3Com infrastructure, built on shared hub architecture, was no longer sufficient and performance and reliability...
- Tags: Telephony, High-performance, IP Telephony, ShoreTel, Extreme Networks, VOIP, Telecommunications, Leadership, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Management
- Case studies 2006-03-01
- Advanced Traffic Management for Carrier Ethernet Networks
- The objective of this white paper is to highlight the requirement for hierarchical rate shaping in advanced carrier Ethernet networks. Differences between traffic shaping and traffic policing are considered along with models for two-tier and three-tier Quality of Service. With service providers deploying a growing number of latency sensitive services,...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Extreme Networks, Carrier, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Extreme Networks Provides Gigabit Ethernet Infrastructure for Innovative Brazilian Giga Project
- CPqD is among the most acknowledged technology centers in the world of telecommunications and information technology. Of late, CPqD and RNP began work on the government-sponsored Giga project in Brazil. The Giga project was an experimental optical network over which data flows via Gigabit Ethernet over DWDM. The network supports...
- Tags: Gigabit Ethernet, Extreme Networks, CPqD, Ethernet, Optical Networking, Networking, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- SCU Turns to Extreme Networks for Performance, Reliability and Manageability Improvements
- Off late, SCU had an outdated network that was increasingly experiencing failures. Most of its existing 3Com equipment was old and difficult to manage, and with its growing traffic loads and the additional applications it planned to deploy, SCU began shopping for new infrastructure equipment. Extreme Networks provided SCU, with...
- Tags: Performance, Extreme Networks, Networking
- Case studies 2005-12-01
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP): A New Standard for Discovering and Managing Converged Network Devices
- Networks must incorporate best-of-breed solutions at every layer of the network, regardless of which vendor chosen. Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP allows enterprises to build a best-of-breed open converged network that can easily accommodate new applications, such as voice, while achieving five 9s availability. The open nature of LLDP forms...
- Tags: Converged Network, Network, Firmware, Avaya Inc., Extreme Networks, Link Layer Discovery Protocol, Networking
- White papers 2005-08-10
- Exploring Alternative Convergence-Ready Solutions from Avaya and Extreme Networks
- End-to-end security, availability and reliability are no longer nice to have, but essential to growing businesses. Avaya and Extreme provide a substantial convergence-ready architecture to support and manage across end-to-end networking layers.
- Tags: Avaya Inc., Extreme Networks, Convergence, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-01
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