FUTURE PROOFING YOUR CAMPUSHow the digital revolution is changing universities approach to technology

Kelly ScottNetwork and Security Sales Specialist

MEMORY LANE

NETWORKS FOR A PURPOSE

NETWORKS GET IN THE WAY

15 YEARS AGO

5 YEARS AGO

TODAY

NETWORKS BECOME INVISIBLE

5

PROLIFERATION OF DATA & APPLICATIONS

WE ACTIVELY USE A DATA NETWORK EVERY 6 MINUTESOn average, every student will have 4 x devices each in 2014.

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER,2008We had a timely early adopter.

the requirements…A familiar list with a new impetus.

LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP

VLE AS A PRIORITY

DEVICE AGNOSTIC

INHERENT SECURITY Single management system

Wired and wireless, invisible and irrelevant to the CUSTOMER (not the student)

Application visibility

a single, physical network

OPEN APICLOUD READY

Fast, reliable, low-latency

Flexibility, dramatically increased longevity (15 years) and scalability

Dozens of buildings sprawling out from their campus across the city.

Plans to develop attractive

products and services for them – fast.

Much of the technology we needed to use was brand new.

It had to work with all the existing “stuff”

during migration.

It seemed like most of the place was being

rebuilt around us.

We needed UoE as much as they needed us. The team consisted of equal parts “us” and “them”.

Research partners, retailers and

incubator business All with hugely

different requirements from the same network.

reality

THE FUN PARTR&D in the sunshine

WHY IT WORKEDPeople, people and people – theirs and ours

AND STARRINGSupporting cast.

AND HANGERS-ON

THE RESULTWhat we (University of Exeter and Data Integration) achieved An

invisible

networkInherent security,

performance,

availability and

scalability

DR wasn’t a thing

we did, it was a

thing we just hadFlexibility

beyond anything we

had achieved before

SDN readiness by default

– no bottlenec

ks

A platform for automation, virtualisation and moving applications and services

internally and externally, seamlessly

NETWORK AS A SERVIC

E

Predictable costs for

many years to come – the fabled “price per

port”

DECISIONS, DECISIONS

If you DIY, ignore the badge

Simplify – use what you have, where you can

Support open standards: OpenStack, OpenFlow, ONF SDN, API and scripting

Design for your future. What might you need?

Address risk as an end-to-end metric, and be realistic about threats you face

What would I choose, if I were in the market for a network?

WHAT’S THE OUTCOME AT UOE?

The network is expanding, not being replaced

The network is invisible to users and services

UoE is off of the obsolescence train

The network is commodity

The network includes all of the networks – demarcation is moot

Why does any of this matter?

THANK YOU.