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Loughborough University

• Higher education

• 3000 employees

• 16,000 students

• 1500 business community tenants

• Headquartered in United Kingdom

• Cisco data center customer since 2009

• Theater: EMEA

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Maintain strong leadership position

• Provide IT infrastructure commensurate with top student experience status

• Improve sustainability, resilience, and disaster recovery provisions

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco provides ultra high-speed campus network with SUP 2T

engine

• Cisco UCS, together with VMware virtualization and NetApp storage, lays foundation for hybrid private cloud

• Cisco Nexus 1000V Switches provide resources able to meet day-to-day computing needs for next 4-5 years

BENEFITS• Gained flexible and optimized broadband campus infrastructure

offering 1Gbps to desktops

• Deployed agile private cloud with triangular data center architecture

• Improved productivity and efficiency from unified communications

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS B-Series

• Cisco Nexus 1000V, 1010

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 with Supervisor Engine 2T

• Cisco Catalyst 3750-E & 2960S

• Cisco ASA 5585-X firewalls

• VMware

• NetApp

• Partner: Logicalis

• Twin on-campus data centers

• Additional Cisco products: wireless, security, collaboration

“Our time-to-market for spinning up research resources is now measured in hours rather than months. Each new such application adds further value and leverages our investment in the underlying platform.” – Dr. Phil Richards, Director of IT