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Vancouver Community College Replaces Nortel and Cisco With Enterasys Solutions as IT Network Model
ANDOVER, MA, Jan 19, 2010 (Marketwire via COMTEX) --
Enterasys, the network infrastructure
and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications Group, today
announced that Vancouver Community College has completed its deployment of
Enterasys network solutions in a new, 60,000 square-foot health sciences
educational facility on the college's main campus. Through Enterasys'
cost-effective solutions, Vancouver Community College's IT staff has
achieved network stability and comprehensive network visibility that
empowers faculty and students to access the College's applications, with
additional plans to scale this deployment across the entire campus.
"Prior to the deployment of the Enterasys solution, our IT infrastructure
consisted of Nortel core devices and Cisco edge switches that were growing
increasingly difficult and costly to manage," said Ben Guanzon, director of
IT for Vancouver Community College. "The network was impeding the ability
to reliably deliver applications to our staff and students."
Guanzon and his team evaluated a number of leading network vendors and
ultimately chose Enterasys based on a variety of features, including
network manageability, interoperability with existing wireless access
points, support for VoIP telephony, security and quality of post-sale
service and technical support. Guanzon said that overall network management
capability and support offered by his Enterasys team were "untouchable" by
other leading vendors.
Guanzon said the Enterasys solution has empowered his team to significantly
increase operational efficiency in the new building. "Our Enterasys network
has allowed us to completely reverse the previous ratio of spending 80
percent of our daily routine responding to network problems and 20 percent
on new projects. Now, we are far more proactive and focus on planning and
implementing new projects rather than reacting to complaints or switch
failures."
The college's network installation, including the replacement of more than
130 network switches, was completed "on time and on budget," according to
Guanzon -- and consists of Enterasys C-Series switches
that connect and prioritize traffic for all IT services, including
building-wide VoIP telephony, streaming video for the nursing training labs
and wireless access points for student and faculty mobility.
"Before Enterasys, adding a new switch to the network was a logistical
nightmare. Now, it takes minutes," he said. "We have been consistently
impressed with the time, money and resources we've saved in the day-to-day
management of the network since going with Enterasys."
About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
Siemens Enterprise Communications Group is a premier provider of end-to-end
enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and
security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify
communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration
experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables
organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through
easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments,
delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's
OpenPath(R) commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and
cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores
Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group companies
include Siemens Enterprise Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks.
For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications Group or
Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com
SOURCE: Enterasys
Barry Cioe
Enterasys Networks
+1 978 684 1525
bcioe@enterasys.com
Michelle Barry
BridgeView Marketing
+1 603 570 7533
michelle@bridgeviewmarketing.com
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