Following an end-to-end upgrade with Brocade switching infrastructure based on Brocade VCS Fabric technology, Chevalier College, located near Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, now has the benefit of a highly automated, scalable, and resilient network. The upgraded network has enabled the College to increase Wi-Fi capacity by 400 per cent, providing more than 1,100 students access to the College campus network from their own mobile devices for the first time.
The core of the new Chevalier College network utilizes Brocade VCS Fabric technology and Brocade VDX 6720 switches. Usually deployed in cloud data centers, Brocade VDX switches form a high-performance, highly resilient, scalable, and self-managing Ethernet fabric, which, in turn, supports wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backbone connectivity. When the College needs to increase core network capacity, it simply has to connect another Brocade VDX switch into the fabric, delivering almost limitless scalability and reliability.
"In addition to providing cost-effective performance and scalability, the level of intelligence embedded in the fabric makes a significant difference to network operation. This is complemented by the Brocade HyperEdge Architecture supported in Brocade ICX switches to automate network lifecycle management and share services, enabling the College to reduce network complexity and costs," said Gary Denman, Senior Director, Australia and New Zealand, Brocade.
The availability of low-latency 10 GbE capacity and VLAN support has also allowed Chevalier College to deploy over 40 terabytes of network data storage in the form of two Coraid EtherDrive VSX appliances. These use the ATA-over-Ethernet protocol to provide network users with fast virtual disk drives while giving the school advanced data management features such as logical volume management, snapshots, cloning, mirroring, and remote replication.
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