Case Study: Salt River Project
Nexus Data Broker powers data center expansion
Salt River Project (SRP) is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit, community-based water and energy companies, with more than 1 million retail customers. SRP upgraded their four data centers while reducing costs with Cisco Nexus Data Broker.
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Summary
Challenges
- Build a packet brokering platform that is scalable and reliable.
- Reduce the cost per port.
- Achieve hitless change management, continued operation of deployed test access port (TAP) sources and monitoring tools.
Solution
- Implement Cisco’s robust and industry-leading Nexus 9000 and 3000 switching platforms.
- Automate with Cisco Nexus Data Broker Controller and improve ease of use with a single pane of management.
- Implement a flexible and auto-adjusting rule management engine.
- Integrate with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
Results
- Reduces total cost of managing the network.
- Connects multiple data centers together as a packet broker network.
- Provides new ways to trace packets and monitor highly complex multipath networks.
- Increases visibility across all deployments: LAN, WAN, and data center.
What they’re saying
“The key benefits of Cisco Nexus Data Broker are both technical and financial. I can achieve the packet monitoring and analysis needs at a pretty inexpensive cost-per-port as opposed to needing to budget for expensive enterprise purpose-built matrix devices.”
Nick Wade, Network Engineer, Salt River Project
What is the Salt River Project (SRP)?
Industry: Power and utilities
Location: Arizona
Size: 5,000 employees
Website: https://www.srpnet.com/