Critical Application Availability

Critical Application Availability for Higher Education

Extreme Networks offers colleges and universities superior network availability, a compelling solution for network security, and a groundbreaking wired and wireless architecture that provides meaningful insight and unprecedented network control for critical voice, video and data applications to support the diverse needs of students, faculty and staff.

Extreme Networks provides a number of differentiated capabilities that support colleges’ and universities’ requirements for high network availability. These capabilities focus on reducing the impact of common operational activities, network congestion and equipment failures. To address one of toughest challenges for colleges and universities, Extreme Networks has developed network-wide security solutions, policy-based routing and event driven port provisioning which allow network administrators to know who is accessing the network via which device and from what location. This rich network insight helps ensure compliance with network security policies, protects critical intellectual property and supports high network availability. With Extreme Networks, colleges and universities can securely provide access to information and resources by students, faculty and staff from any wired or wireless connection.

Extreme Networks partners with leading IP telephony solution providers, to deliver quality voice solutions that simplify management, optimize performance and automate network provisioning. As a result of these partnerships, a number of jointly developed enhancements have been delivered to the market for easier management, optimized performance and automated provisioning. By focusing on optimization for voice and on partnerships with leading providers of VoIP solutions, Extreme Networks is well positioned to support the evolving needs for voice in campus environments.

Extreme Networks offers wireless solutions that easily integrate with existing wired networks with minimal disruptions and overhead. There is no need for client software or changes to network configuration or topology. It is extremely easy to install and operate. With the capability to support multiple access types, devices and applications under one single WLAN infrastructure, these solutions provide quality performance to meet the high mobility needs of students, faculty and staff. Extreme Networks provides configuration recommendations, on-site training and proactive monitoring of network performance and utilization to help you fully optimize the powerful performance capabilities of this solution.

The Extreme Advantage

Our solutions allow you to: