Learning
Enabling end-user success through training and education.
Consultants
Consultants provides business and technology consulting capabilities well before the systems integration phase.
Digital solutions integrators
DSIs are niche consulting companies with specialized focus on workflows for industries/critical business processes. They specialize in making digital business transformation a reality. They help integrate digital capabilities across all business operations and are experts at driving those conversations with customers in new buying centers and line-of-business.
Global industry partners
GIPs lead Cisco’s market penetration into industry verticals through their RTM by integrating Cisco technologies into their operational technology solution platforms.
Independent hardware vendors
IHVs specialize in hardware-based solutions. The hardware might be combined with Cisco platforms to provide customers with integrated systems or appliance stack. Typically, this is a meet-in-the-channel model.
Independent software vendors
ISVs specialize in developing and selling software solutions. The software might be integrated with Cisco platforms to enable more capabilities for customers, or it could be that Cisco features are part of the ISV application modernization and re-architecting roadmap. Some ISVs are on the Cisco GPL, but most meet in the channel.
IT resellers
IT resellers partner with a resale contract agreement with Cisco to resell Cisco technology and services.
Service providers
SPs specialize in large-scale deployment of communications and technology solutions built on Cisco platforms.
Systems integrators
SIs create complex information systems that may include designing or building a customized architecture or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, packaged and custom software, and communications.
Cisco portfolio for education: What can we help you solve today?
- Build a flexible campus
- Streamline administration
- Create hybrid learning environments
- Facilitate safety and security
- Fuel innovative research
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
- __________
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Build a flexible campus
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Streamline administration
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Create hybrid learning environments
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Facilitate safety and security
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Fuel innovative research
Campus wireless and connectivity
Empower students to connect, create, and share--anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
Case studies
Americas
Montana State UniversitySan Jose State University
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Universidad EAFIT
Asia
University of Santo TomasUniversity of Wollongong
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
City of GothenburgConscia Sverige
Luiss University
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Need for flexible network that can scale up or down based on configuration of spaces and number of students who will be on campus or remote
- More digital curriculum and content being shared online
- Increased number of devices connecting to the network
- Digitization of student services
- Increased reliance on network data and analytics to drive student retention and success
- Digitization of campus communications
- Improved access for visitors, including parents, contractors
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Business needs
- Ensure persistent access to digital content and resources
- Securely enable high quality connectivity for multiple devices
- Ensure good signal coverage across campus
- Reduced network management complexity
- Protect against malicious Wi-Fi behavior
- Ensure high density access in targeted areas (e.g., lecture halls and residence halls)
- Deliver home-like Wi-Fi experience for residential living
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Capabilities
- Secure, high quality connectivity in large spaces, auditoriums, outdoors
- Secure mobile network access anywhere on campus
- Classes and projects can occur anywhere
- Ability to scale residence hall student devices
- Ability for operations to provide device support anywhere
- Enable scalable broadcast video anywhere on campus
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Business outcomes
- Higher student engagement, retention and success with persistent availability of digital content
- Increased student enrollment revenue
- Expansion of campus operations functions and apps, like video and collaboration
- Reduced IT problem resolution time and resources required
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- IT directors
- Administrative services
- Learning technology leaders
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9600 Series Switches Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Catalyst 9400 Series Switches Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Catalyst 9200 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) 400 Series Meraki Switches (MS) 300 Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst 9115 Series Access Points Aironet 4800 Series Access Points Aironet 1815W Access Point Aironet 1500 Series Access Points |
Meraki MR80 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR70 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR50 Series Access Points Meraki MR40 Series Access Points |
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Management |
Cisco DNA Center Cisco DNA Assurance SD-Access |
Meraki Systems Manager |
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SD-WAN |
SD-WAN Software-defined MPLS |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Security |
Duo Stealthwatch |
Meraki MX450 Cloud Managed Security Meraki MX250 Cloud Managed Security |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Mobile experiences and location services
Equip students with online tools to help them navigate their full campus experience more productively.
Case studies
San Jose State UniversityVictoria University
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Expanded use of mobile apps for student engagement and health safety
- Use of mobile data to gain insights into student retention and success
- Increased reliance on campus wayfinding to navigate large campuses, especially as many campuses are being reconfigured
- Use of mobile data to understand campus usage patterns and monitor space capacity and usage
- Ability to monitor distancing and track individual proximity
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Business needs
- Increase student engagement with physical and virtual campus sites and activities
- Understand factors that limit or enhance student engagement and success
- Assist with challenging directions or logistics, especially as campuses evolve through incidents like global pandemics
- Modify maps and directions easily online during campus changes
- Provide feedback to students about potential health contact considerations
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Capabilities
- Leading-edge campus tour experience for prospective students, parents, and alumni
- Campus wayfinding for all students, faculty, and visitors
- Mobile student attendance recording
- Space utilization data to support density monitoring and proximity tracing
- Send alerts to campus personnel when facility designated maximum capacity is exceeded
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Business outcomes
- Increased on-campus student satisfaction and retention
- Better student awareness of what is available on campus
- Easier management and updating of virtual campus maps
- Improved space utilization and monitoring
- Increased student and parent confidence in health and safety of campus spaces
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- Director of IT
- Admin/student services
- Facilities
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9600 Series Switches Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Catalyst 9400 Series Switches Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Catalyst 9200 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) 400 Series Meraki Switches (MS) 300 Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst 9115 Series Access Points Aironet 4800 Series Access Points Aironet 1815W Access Point Aironet 1500 Series Access Points |
Meraki MR80 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR70 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR50 Series Access Points Meraki MR40 Series Access Points |
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Management |
Cisco DNA Center Cisco DNA Assurance |
Meraki Systems Manager |
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Security |
Stealthwatch |
Meraki MX450 Cloud Managed Security Meraki MX250 Cloud Managed Security |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Smart campus and automation
Optimize the campus experience with facilities automation, lighting, energy efficiency, occupancy analytics, and security.
Case studies
San Jose State UniversitySt. Vrain Valley School District
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Crises, like a global pandemic, require campuses to utilize smart technologies to ensure social distancing, proximity tracing, and health safety
- Need to save time and money on campus operations, energy, and labor costs
- Need for modern, efficient academic, administrative, and health services for students, faculty, and staff
- Increased data from explosion of devices and IoT sensors
- Multiple IoT data formats that are difficult to manage
- Need to deliver campus services virtually
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Business needs
- Need to create safe and healthy campuses to encourage the return to school after global crises
- Reduce energy costs, waste, and inefficiencies
- Reduce labor costs and improve service reliability through automation
- Reduce complexity of data sources and sensors and maximize insights these sources provide
- Leverage volume and breadth of data to improve operations
- Drive efficient use of resources
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Capabilities
- Deliver proximity tracing and density monitoring
- Detect and manage building occupancy, temperature, lighting, etc.
- Normalize data storage formats for non-standard sensors and data sources
- Consolidate operations dashboards across multiple functions
- Deliver smart waste management
- Maximize space utilization and offer density monitoring by identifying high and low density classroom and campus space use
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Business outcomes
- Lower operational, energy, and labor costs
- Improved on-campus experience for students, faculty, and staff
- Support collection of standard tuition by returning students to campus
- Optimized resource utilization
- Higher quality and higher volume of data to drive improved services and analytical insights
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- Director of IT
- Head of facilities
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
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Switching |
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Wireless |
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Cameras |
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SD-WAN |
Viptela |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Security |
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Duo Identity Services Engine (ISE) TrustSec Umbrella |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
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Compute |
Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) Edge Intelligence Fog/edge compute on IOS XE Hyperflex Integrated Services Router (ISR) 4000 + Unified Computing Servers (UCS) E-Series Unified Computing Servers (UCS) C-Series |
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Collaboration |
Webex Teams Webex Room Kit Series Webex Board Series Webex Control Hub |
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Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet |
|
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Residential living
Optimize the campus residential experience with individual, home-like access for each student.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- High student expectations due to high tuition rates
- Student expectations of a home wireless experience
- Increased use of residential wireless applications to monitor student engagement and success
- Many student devices use plug-and-play access, challenging in campus networks
- Competition from private living residences
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Business needs
- Ease transition for students from home to university life
- Retain students in residence hall contracts to increase revenue
- Provide advantages over private residences
- Reduce complexity of residence hall network operational support
- Address increasing wireless bandwidth demand from students
- Provide low-latency wired solution for increasing student gaming demand
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Capabilities
- Student self-service mobile app for onboarding
- App allows for onboarding of student devices to their “home” network
- Network access only for personal devices, reducing shared visibility and increasing security
- Student invites friend(s) to personal network
- Operational visibility to student network devices
- Utilize strategic advantage of network architecture
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Business outcomes
- Better student residential experience, better residential retention
- Better student academic outcomes with better wireless experience
- Lower operational staff load from fewer trouble tickets
- Higher wireless throughput and device load support
- Reduce nefarious access to personal shared devices
- Higher residential revenue from increased occupancy rates
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- Director of IT
- Director of residential housing
- Residence hall advisor
- Provost, chief academic officer
- Director of facilities
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Management |
Cisco DNA Center Cisco DNA Assurance Cisco DNA Premier or Cisco DNA Advantage software |
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Wireless controller |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
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Identity services |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst 9115 Series Access Points Aironet 4800 Series Access Points Aironet 1815W Access Point |
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Switching (access) |
Catalyst 9300 Series Switches (future) |
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Student Mobile App |
Cisco UDN cloud service |
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Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet user-defined network APIs |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Flexible and scalable data center
Harness the insights of your data to create a more efficient and effective operation.
Case study
University of North Carolina at CharlotteBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Rapid acceleration of digital technologies
- Explosion of new applications housed in containers, virtualized environments, and clouds
- Creation of massive data sets
- Need to constrain costs in highly budget-sensitive environments
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Business needs
- Manage thousands of policies across containerized, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Policies need to follow applications wherever they reside
- More efficiently troubleshoot and fix issues
- Pass policy and compliance audits
- Reduce and manage security risk
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Capabilities
- Scalable and agile application and data architecture
- Capture the intent from the network, gaining a better understanding of network and application usage
- Automate, enforce, and ensure intent across data center network
- Ensure continuous, formal verifications, insights, and corrective actions
- Proactively pinpoint deviations from intended behaviors and recommend remediation
- Prevent outages before they occur
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Business outcomes
- Shorter resolution time
- Quickly fix issues
- Pass audits more easily
- Reduce risk of human error-induced network failures
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- CISO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Fabric spine nodes |
Nexus 9364C Switch Nexus 9336PQ Switch Nexus 9332C Switch |
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Fabric leaf nodes |
Nexus 93128TX Switch Nexus 93120TX Switch Nexus 9396TX Switch Nexus 9396PX Switch Nexus 9372TX Switch Nexus 9372PX Switch Nexus 9372TX-E Switch Nexus 9372PX-E Switch Nexus 9332PQ Switch |
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Border leaf nodes |
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| DCI nodes |
Nexus 7700 Switches Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000-(X|HX) |
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Fabric compute |
Unified Computing Servers (UCS) Hyperflex Storage and Compute |
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SAN fabric |
MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches |
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Application experience |
Tetration Platform Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) AppDynamics |
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Intent-based networking |
Network Assurance Engine |
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Data center management |
Unified Computing Servers (UCS) Director Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) |
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Security |
Duo Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Stealthwatch Umbrella |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Administrative collaboration and remote working
Boost your administrators’ productivity and enable them to work from anywhere with digital collaboration tools.
Case studies
Curtin UniversityLone Star College
Shawnee Mission School District 512
University of Portsmouth
University of Santo Tomas
Victoria Department of Education and Training
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Ability to flexibly and securely work onsite or remotely
- Need to maintain continuous campus operations
- Need for collaboration across campus leadership
- Ability to rapidly respond to crises
- Meet evolving compliance requirements
- Need for flexible professional development delivery, video broadcasts, and use of technology in teaching and learning
- Challenge of bringing dispersed staff together onsite or remotely
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Business needs
- Consistent, secure access to work resources both onsite and virtually
- Improve regularity, access and efficiency of meetings
- Improve attendance and engagement at meetings
- Reduce travel time to critical meetings, and remove the need for regular travel
- Improve cross-departmental collaboration and alignment
- Improve compliance metrics through better tracking
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Capabilities
- Conduct live video calls with any number of participants from any device
- Record meetings for review and for missed participants
- Continue discussion after meeting in secure, private messaging spaces
- Conduct large-scale video broadcasts (including global)
- Broadcast messages across customized digital signage
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Business outcomes
- Better communications and collaboration across administrative leaders
- Better administrative decision making across teams
- Streamlined staff training
- Improved meeting attendance
- Elimination of travel time and need to travel to meetings
- Validated compliance metrics
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provosts
- CIO
- CBO
- CFO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
|
Webex Meetings |
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Webex Teams |
|
Webex Room Kit Series |
|
Webex Board Series |
|
Webex Desk Series |
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Webex Share |
|
Meeting Server |
|
Hosted Collaboration Service (HCS) Unified Communications Manager Unified Communications Manager Cloud |
|
7800/8800 Series IP Phones |
|
Headset 700 Series Headset 500 Series |
|
Webex Edge (optional) |
|
Hosted Collaboration Service (HCS) |
|
Webex Calling |
|
Webex Integrations |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Adaptive student engagement services
Gain student behavior insights that can focus resources upon timely intervention and the reduction of drop-out rates.
Case studies
California Baptist UniversityLone Star College
Luiss University
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Low student engagement and course attendance – difficult for students to pay attention online, may not have Internet or device access
- Need to flexibly delivery any student service onsite or virtually
- Increased student drop-out rate
- Need to attract and retain students to ensure consistent revenue stream
- Need to reach and engage non-traditional learners and students with special needs onsite and virtually
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Business needs
- Deliver student services without interruption
- Increase persistent, personalized student engagement both onsite and virtually
- Deliver timely interventions for students at risk
- Reduce drop-out rate
- Increase graduation rates
- Expand potential pool to students with some college experience but no degree
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Capabilities
- Virtual delivery of counseling, academic advising, health, financial aid and other services
- Track student attendance by course/section
- Provide engagement score and trends per student
- Provide student engagement: mobile app with live interactions
- Prioritized alerts for faculty advisors
- Track engagement: in-person and distance learning activities
- Behavioral analytics to predict student outcomes
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Business outcomes
- Increased student engagement, retention and success
- Increased institutional revenue
- Improved institutional reputation and standing
- Improved efficiency of staff resources
- Increased student participation in campus activities
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- CFO
- Student services leaders
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces or Wireless LAN Controller configured for syslog + Meraki Location Analytics |
|
| Collaboration |
Webex Education Connector (for LMS) Webex Teams |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9600 Series Switches Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Catalyst 9400 Series Switches Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Catalyst 9200 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) 400 Series Meraki Switches (MS) 300 Series |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst 9115 Series Access Points Aironet 4800 Series Access Points Aironet 1815W Access Point |
Meraki MR80 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR70 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR50 Series Access Points Meraki MR40 Series Access Points |
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Management |
Cisco DNA Center (optional) Cisco DNA Assurance (optional) |
Systems Manager |
|
Security |
Stealthwatch |
Meraki MX450 Cloud Managed Security Meraki MX250 Cloud Managed Security |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Hybrid learning spaces
Expand teaching and learning both virtually and across physical campus and classroom locations.
Case studies
Americas
Babson CollegeCalifornia Baptist University
Lone Star College
Shawnee Mission School District 512
St. Vrain Valley School District
Montana State University
Troy City Schools
Asia
Curtin UniversityRepublic Polytechnic
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Need to create flexible learning spaces both on and off campus
- An uncertain environment requires a flexible approach to teaching and learning, onsite or remote
- Ability to deliver personalized learning
- Flagging enrollments leading to loss of revenue
- Lower class attendance leading to drop in student engagement and success
- Faculty burn-out due to repeated virtual lectures
- Need to improve institutional brand and reputation
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Business needs
- Ability to deliver learning uninterrupted
- Reduce drop-out rate
- Increase quality of learning both on campus and online
- Improved student engagement through flipped and blended learning
- Ability for students and faculty to collaborate/interact outside of the physical classroom
- Ability for students to watch and absorb lectures at their own pace
- Enable faculty to record and store lectures
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Capabilities
- Enable flexible delivery of classes both onsite and virtually
- Create innovative physical and virtual environments to better engage students
- Pre-record lectures
- View professor videos from inside LMS
- Schedule professor office hours from inside LMS
- Leverage outside expert resources
- Conduct virtual office hours and tutoring sessions
- Use integrated digital whiteboard on campus or remotely
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Business outcomes
- Improved brand with a solid strategy for quality and continuity of learning
- Increased student engagement, retention and success
- Increased institutional revenue
- Higher student graduation rates
- Increased faculty retention
- More efficient use of faculty
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Deans/provost
- Chief academic officer
- CFO
- CIO/CTO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
|
Webex Meetings |
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Webex Teams |
|
Webex Education Connector (for LMS) |
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Webex Room Kit Series |
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Webex Board Series |
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Webex Desk Series |
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SpeakerTrack, PresenterTrack |
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Webex Share |
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Hosted Collaboration Service (HCS) Unified Communications Manager Unified Communications Manager Cloud |
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7800/8800 Series IP Phones |
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Webex Edge (optional) |
|
Stealthwatch |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Secure distance learning
Give students unlimited access to educational resources, no matter where they are.
Case studies
Americas
Babson CollegeCalifornia Baptist University
Lone Star College
Montana State University
Northland Pioneer College
Shawnee Mission School District 512
Asia
Curtin UniversityOpen Access College
Victoria Department of Education and Training
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Luiss UniversityROC ter AA
University of Camerino
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Need to continuously deliver learning when campus is closed or in hybrid mode
- Increase student engagement, retention and success
- Continuous learning for students who cannot get to campus, or who don’t feel safe going to campus
- Expand program and course offerings to drive revenue by reaching new and different audiences
- Reduce costs of delivering courses
- Need to find new sources of revenue, especially if they don’t or can’t open their physical campuses
- Improve institutional brand and reputation
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Business needs
- Keep students enrolled in courses
- Improve graduation rates
- Maintain and expand enrollments and revenue
- Leverage existing faculty expertise across more students
- Reduce or eliminate travel time to and from campus
- Keep students and faculty safe by delivering courses remotely
- Drive new revenue by increasing potential pool of students
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Capabilities
- Scale live online courses from one to thousands
- Provide interactive chat, Q&A, and whiteboard during class
- View dozens of live students simultaneously
- Extend large lecture hall to remote lecture halls
- Record and archive course lectures
- Schedule teacher or professor office hours from inside LMS
- Archive recordings and online chat with files inside LMS
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Business outcomes
- Attract students that may be attending other colleges/universities
- Increased student enrollment and revenue
- Higher student engagement and satisfaction
- Lower instruction cost per student
- Reduced inter-campus transportation
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Deans/provost
- Chief academic officer
- CFO
- CIO
Technical overview
Enable Secure Distance Learning Demo
See how schools and universities can seamlessly enable secure distance learning within a learning management system.
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
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Webex Meetings |
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Webex Teams |
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Webex Education Connector (for LMS) |
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Webex Room Kit Series |
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Webex Board Series |
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Webex Desk Series |
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SpeakerTrack, PresenterTrack |
|
Webex Edge (optional) |
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Umbrella |
|
Duo |
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Cloudlock |
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Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500-X Series with Firepower Services |
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AnyConnect VPN |
|
Stealthwatch |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Faculty professional development
Support faculty initiatives and career development with new ways to meet, learn, and collaborate.
Case studies
Hdemy GroupROC ter AA
University of Camerino
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Faculty need training to adapt course delivery for distance or hybrid learning
- Students have changing instructional needs
- Difficulty allocating full, separate days for professional development
- Need to attract and retain top faculty
- Need to make professional development persistent and ongoing rather than one-off and infrequent
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Business needs
- Help teachers use technology virtually and in the classroom
- Improve faculty collaboration and best-practice sharing
- Improve faculty proficiency
- Increase quality of teaching and learning
- Develop metrics around faculty development
- Adhere to faculty compliance and professional development requirements
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Capabilities
- Create and deliver online content and training for faculty
- Deliver faculty collaboration platform that delivers persistent development opportunities
- Report completion of participation
- Enable meetings with remote faculty
- Invite guest professional development lecturers
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Business outcomes
- Increased faculty engagement and proficiency in delivering courses virtually
- Improved faculty hiring and retention
- Better student engagement and success
- Increased faculty satisfaction
- Reduced travel cost and continued development, regardless of where the faculty resides
- Better organizational compliance
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Stakeholders
- Directors of education technology
- Chancellor
- President
- Dean/provost
- CBO
- CFO
- CIO
- CTO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
|
Webex Meetings |
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Webex Teams |
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Webex Education Connector (for LMS) |
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Webex Room Kit Series |
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Webex Board Series |
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Webex Desk Series |
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SpeakerTrack, PresenterTrack |
|
Webex Share |
|
7800/8800 Series IP Phones |
|
Webex Edge (optional) |
|
Stealthwatch |
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
Network, endpoint, and web security
Create a safe and secure learning environment by blocking cyberthreats that try to access your network--on campus or off.
Case studies
Americas
Lewisville School DistrictShawnee Mission School District 512
Los Rios Community College District
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Asia
Victoria UniversityVictoria University of Wellington
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Brunel University LondonConvitto Nazionale Umberto Primo
Cyprus University of Technology
The White Horse Federation
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Large increase in number of students and remote workers, including faculty and staff, connecting to the network
- Increase in cyber-crime and cyber-bullying
- Bad actors steal university data with coordinated attacks
- Colleges and universities required by law to protect student personal data
- University research data highly valuable
- Reputational damage and potential ransom payments caused by security breaches
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Business needs
- Effectively and efficiently deploy, manage, secure, and maintain university-owned devices and BYOD environment for students, faculty, and staff
- Protect university research data while allowing inter-campus projects
- Protect personal student data
- Protect core school or university administrative assets
- Reduce institutional risk of loss
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Capabilities
- Allow student, faculty, and staff BYOD to be on-boarded effectively
- Detect network traffic anomalies
- Detect malicious behavior from encrypted transmissions without compromising security
- Defend highly sensitive administrative or research devices
- Enable new threat detection quickly
- Extend data protections and monitoring to any campus services, anywhere
-
Business outcomes
- Reduce campus legal issues due to information theft, online crime, etc.
- Increased student availability and use of learning technology in the classroom and remotely
- Reduced institutional risk of loss
- Reduced ransomware threat
- Protected university reputation
- Increased government/corporate research funding opportunities
- Reduced campus legal issues due to information theft
- Reduce risk of network downtime
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- Deans
- CIO
- CFO
- CISO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
|
Umbrella |
|
Umbrella Investigate (secure web gateway) |
|
Cloudlock |
|
Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500-X Series with Firepower Services |
|
Firepower Series |
|
Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) |
|
Firepower Management Center |
|
AnyConnect VPN |
|
Stealthwatch, Stealthwatch Cloud |
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Duo |
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Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints |
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Security Connector (CSC) for iOS |
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Email Security for Office 365 |
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Virtual Solutions: Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv), Next-Generation Firewall Virtual (NGFWv) |
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Meraki MX Cloud Managed Security Portfolio |
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Meraki Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) |
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For remote teleworkers: • Meraki MX68 • Meraki Z1 teleworker gateway • Integrated Services Router (ISR) 800 Series |
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Identity and access control
Protect data, research, and intellectual property by only providing access to those who are authorized.
Case studies
Brunel University LondonUniversidad EAFIT
University of Wollongong
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Increased numbers of remote students and workers connecting to the network
- Many different campus constituents with different access requirements
- BYOD highly prevalent
- Potential data loss due to improper access
- Need for users to access data/information that is theirs
- Complex access policies that must be enforced
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Business needs
- Correctly identify individuals and device types
- Define and enforce access policies that match the individual and/or device
- Reduce compromised accounts
- Provide appropriate access to defined individuals when they need it
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Capabilities
- Identify many different types of devices and users
- Match individual identity to policy enforcement
- Enable guest access with strict access policy
- Secure remote researcher/administrator data access
- Recognize compromised faculty/researcher accounts quickly
- Utilize cross-institution identity support through InCommon and Internet2 NET+
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Business outcomes
- Reduction in data/information loss
- Increased visibility into cloud storage services
- Reduced number of accounts compromised
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Stakeholders
- Directors of education technology
- Chancellor
- President
- CIO
- CISO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
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Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Duo |
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AnyConnect VPN |
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Stealthwatch, Stealthwatch Cloud |
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Umbrella Roaming |
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Secure access |
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Cloudlock |
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Meraki Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) |
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Partner success stories
Video surveillance and physical security
Protect your students and staff with video surveillance IP cameras and analytics that monitor campus activity, analyze health concern patterns, and detect threats faster.
Case studies
Reading School DistrictSt Mary Star of the Sea College
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Campus safety continues to be an imperative, including during pandemic
- Need to ensure safety on campuses that are being populated
- Students do not engage or stay on campus when they feel unsafe
- Support health concern measures
- On-campus residential housing has 24x7 security responsibility
- Campuses are usually open, physical environments
- Budget constraint on additional security staffing
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Business needs
- Increase student safety and wellness
- Reduce campus violence and crime
- Protect residential housing environments
- Enable sense of openness across campus
- Notify broadly during emergency situations
- Provide feedback to students about potential health contact considerations
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Capabilities
- Locate and identify video evidence on-demand
- Utilize video analytics or location services to support health concern measures
- Analyze secure locations, such as residential housing
- Notify all constituencies quickly and effectively during emergencies on all platforms
- Broadcast emergency information on digital signage
- Integrate live communication with local law enforcement
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Business outcomes
- Help keep transmission rates down during a health crisis, such as pandemic
- Reduced campus crime
- Students, staff, and guests feel safer
- Increased evidence for criminal prosecution
- Increased security capability with more focused security staff
- More responsive and effective internal/external emergency communications
- Increased student and parent confidence in health and safety of campus spaces
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Stakeholders
- CFO
- President
- Chancellor
- Provost
- CIO
- CISO
- Campus safety officers
- Local law enforcement
- Campus health office
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Catalyst 9130 Series Access Points Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Catalyst 9115 Series Access Points Aironet 4800 Series Access Points Aironet 1815W Access Point Aironet 1500 Series Access Points |
Meraki MR80 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR70 Series Outdoor Access Points Meraki MR50 Series Access Points Meraki MR40 Series Access Points |
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Management |
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Meraki Systems Manager |
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Security |
Stealthwatch |
Meraki MX450 Cloud Managed Security Meraki MX250 Cloud Managed Security |
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Video surveillance |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
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Collaboration |
Webex Teams Webex Control Hub |
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Partnerships overview
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Remote research and collaboration
Support innovation in research with seamless collaboration and access to computing resources.
Case study
Montana State UniversityUniversity of Granada
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Need for research to flexibly continue either on-campus or remotely
- Research initiatives and funding continue to be at the heart of four-year research institutions
- Institutions and researchers are often dispersed across multiple buildings, campuses, and disparate institutions
- Researches need to connect with one another in a simple, seamless, and secure way
- Institutions pride and differentiate themselves on level of research funding and connection and collaboration with other research institutions
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Business needs
- Ability to attract highly-regarded researchers
- Need for researchers who can garner funding for research projects
- Need for secure communications and collaboration between researchers and research institutions
- Best-in-class research environments, which include leading-edge communications and collaboration capabilities
- Reach researchers in remote or rural locations
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Capabilities
- Ability for researchers to connect with one another--anytime, anywhere, on any device--over both voice and video
- Tools that enable researchers to collaborate on documents, whiteboard concepts, and carry on persistent communications
- Secure sharing of content, meeting recordings, and conversations between researchers
- Instantly communicate with one another and bring other researchers and experts to projects
- Communicate with research grant funders and participating corporations
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Business outcomes
- Better connections between researchers
- Expanded research opportunities
- Faster research results
- Reduced risk in sharing sensitive, confidential information
- Expanded reach of research collaboration and communications
- Increased diversity of thought through sharing across diverse researchers and stakeholders
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- Deans of schools with research projects
- Principal investigators
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
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Webex Meetings |
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Webex Teams |
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Webex Education Connector (for LMS) |
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Webex Room Kit Series |
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Webex Board Series |
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Webex Desk Series |
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SpeakerTrack, PresenterTrack |
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Webex Share |
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7800/8800 Series IP Phones |
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Webex Edge (optional) |
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Stealthwatch |
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Umbrella |
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Duo |
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Cloudlock |
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Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) |
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AnyConnect VPN |
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Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints |
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For remote teleworkers: • Meraki MX68 • Meraki Z1 teleworker gateway • Integrated Services Router (ISR) 900 Series |
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High-performance computing
Power groundbreaking research with high-performance computing that can analyze vast quantities of data across fields.
Case studies
Clemson University Bioinformatics LabRWTH Aachen University
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Research grants/funding tied to campus research reputation
- Research reputation tied to research professors and their expertise/experience
- Most research environments require a strong computational element
- Push/pull between research computation needs versus university enterprise networks shared with IT
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Business needs
- Attract research funding/grants through leading-edge computational environment
- Attract top-level researchers through campus computational excellence
- Ensure security of research networks
- Easily provision and manage research networks
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Capabilities
- Deploy compute cluster environments with centralized and departmental resources
- Get high density, low latency, and power efficiency from computational switching infrastructure
- Scale storage through programmable storage networking
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Business outcomes
- Increased research grant funding
- New leading-edge research professors hired
- Increased computational facilities build-out
- Increased research papers produced and new discoveries
- Streamline provisioning and management of research network
- Save time and money converging research and enterprise networks
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Research chairs
- Principal investigators
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
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Unified Computing Servers (UCS) C-Series |
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Unified Computing Servers (UCS) Director |
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Unified Computing Servers (UCS) Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders |
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HyperFlex HX-Series Hybrid Nodes |
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HyperFlex HX-Series NVMe Nodes |
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Nexus 9000 Series Switches |
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Nexus 7000 Series Switches |
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Nexus 3000 Series Switches |
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MDS Multilayer Fabric Switches |
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MDS Multilayer Directors |
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Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) |
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Virtual GPU with accelerated graphics |
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Research cloud security
Protect research and intellectual property with fast, continuous threat detection embedded across the entire network.
Case study
Brunel University LondonBusiness overview
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Industry drivers
- Demand for high-profile research programs that drive revenue and institutional prestige
- Demand for research dollars to fund programs
- High profile research projects that require protection of high volume, sensitive data
- Fear of cyber attack that damages and/or exposes sensitive data and intellectual property
- Research collaboration across institutions, organizations, and locations creates security vulnerabilities
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Business needs
- Secure environments that protect sensitive research data and intellectual property
- Proactive, advance warning intervention systems to stop cyber attacks before they occur
- Security both inside and outside the network to detect and remediate vulnerabilities created by multi-organization, collaborative research partnerships
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Capabilities
- Immediate threat detection and prevention
- Threat remediation
- Data protection
- Collaboration security
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Business outcomes
- Faster, more secure research results
- Improved safety and security of research results and intellectual property
- Improved institutional reputation
- Increased research dollars
- Improved research faculty recruitment and retention
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Stakeholders
- President
- Academic deans
- Heads of research
- CIO
- CSO
Technical overview
Cisco products
| Component |
|---|
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Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Duo |
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AnyConnect VPN |
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Umbrella Roaming |
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Secure access |
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Cloudlock |
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Stealthwatch |
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Tetration Platform |
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