Customer Success Story
Delivering on a smart university campus vision with a Juniper infrastructure
Faced with a complex and aging campus network, Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute has embraced a Juniper solution based on open standards. The new network enables more than 21,000 students and staff to “simply get connected,” while paving the way for a new generation of smart campus apps, delivered from the cloud.
Shaanxi Polytechnic Institute is the first degree-awarding, higher-education vocational college in China. The university currently has about 20,000 students and a staff of about 1070, of whom 675 are full-time teachers, including 63 professors and associate professors.
Business Challenge
An aging network needed to make way for the university’s smart campus vision by eliminating network performance bottlenecks, management complexity, and proprietary lock-ins—allowing tens of thousands of mobile users to get connected and paving the way for increased data center virtualization and a new generation of smart campus apps.
Business Solution
Deployment of MX960 routers in the network core delivers not only massive scalability, but also integrated broadband access server functionality that supports agentless network authentication that’s based on open standards. EX Series switches in the campus and data center networks deliver wire-speed performance with simplified network management.
Business Results
Shaanxi Polytechnic now has mobile connectivity for tens of thousands of users across its campus, with a simplified network that takes far less time and effort to administer.
The Products
The EX Series Ethernet Switches are cloud-ready, high-performance access and aggregation/core layer switches designed for enterprise branch, campus, and data center networks. Wired access networks don’t have to be complex—you can reduce risk and cost without compromising performance, quality, and innovation.
With a robust portfolio of SDN-enabled routers, the MX Series provides industry-leading system capacity, density, security, and performance with unparalleled longevity.