Challenge

Bowling Green State University's (BGSU) mission is to provide educational experiences that enhance the lives of students. To further its primary goal of making technology a part of nearly every classroom experience, the university wanted to establish a new data center at a co-location facility and use software-defined networking (SDN) to streamline application delivery and support.

The Solution

By converging the management of network and application services, SDN delivers speed and agility. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) provides a comprehensive SDN architecture with policy-based automation that follows the application, no matter where it is stored or accessed. Cisco UCS and Nexus provide performance and high availability.

Outcomes

With a powerful SDN architecture as the hub of its co-location strategy, BGSU has the freedom to evolve and use technology as a key enabler for the university to provide unique learning experiences. IT now has a better, faster way to accommodate requests from faculty for new applications and services, as well as an architecture that will allow it to be more efficient and offer better, more consistent security. New teaching and business applications can be deployed in minutes, improving education and productivity. Students, faculty, and staff all benefit from improved service quality.