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“Having a single point of management for Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders through the Cisco Nexus 5000 enabled us to manage twice the number of devices with the same size team.” – Dennis Crowe, Director of Network Engineering
Apollo Group
• Higher education
• 21,777employees
• +40,000 students
• 200 campuses
• Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona
• Founded in 1973
• Cisco data center customer since 2010
• Theater: Americas
CUSTOMER STATS
CHALLENGE• Ensure high availability of learning and business applications
• Enhance student experience by replacing faulty switches
• Meet future student demand with modular and scalable architecture
WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco Nexus platform provides 10 GigE connectivity needed to
virtualize
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders minimize management points
• vPC feature of Nexus switches eliminate Spanning Tree
BENEFITS• Doubled network size without increasing staff
• Lowered per-port switch costs while increasing ports
• Delivered excellent student experience even during peak times
CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Switches
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
• Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform
• Three data centers