Education
Benefits
- Ensures quick deployment with little or no training required
- Controls the cost of downtime by managing change with immediate notification of changes
- Saves time by automating problem resolution
- Reduces mean time to repair (MTTR) with proactive expert analysis
Higher Education Means Higher Technology Demands
Thousands of students pay billions of dollars each year to obtain higher education at universities and colleges around the world. And these technology-savvy students expect their school to provide a high-performance network to support both their educational and recreational needs.
Traffic-intensive and time-sensitive applications—such as virtual classrooms, student and faculty and administration email, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools—are now commonplace and must perform flawlessly to meet student and faculty demands. For the IT staffs managing these networks, it's critical to not only ensure high availability and performance of these applications, but also maintain security and compliance around the clock.
Netcordia Solutions Solve the Higher Education Conundrum
To complicate the situation even more, colleges often employ students to work in their IT departments and help with the management of the network infrastructure. Sometimes, well-meaning students—acting with the best of intentions but without appropriate knowledge of the network—make changes in the infrastructure and inadvertently cause additional problems.
Higher education network managers are constantly battling these and other kinds of IT issues. And sadly, these key members of the administrative staff do not always have the proper resources and manpower to ensure that the network operates optimally for those who need it most.
Our educational customers rely on Netcordia solutions for managing networks because they require minimal training and virtually no ongoing management. Our NetMRI platform, in particular, delivers a wealth of proactive information—including performance data and configuration, security, and compliance analyses—all of which is essential to helping solve critical infrastructure problems, from changes management to security and compliance breaches. The network runs at peak efficiency while streamlining operating costs.
University Customers
Our university customers use NetMRI on a regular basis to improve and optimize their networks. For example, Colgate University is using NetMRI to perform a quick network check every morning. The issues identified by NetMRI helps the network team decide what to work on that day. Read more about it on Network World's Network Management Newsletter.
