USE CASE CITY ADMINISTRATION STORDIS GmbH // Rosenwiesstr. 17 // 70567 Stuttgart // Deutschland // T: +49 (0)711 34 21 58 0 // E:
[email protected] // www.stordis.com STORDIS Limited // 18A Ley Court, Barnett Way // Gloucester GLA 3RT // UK // T: +44(0)1452 698 181 // E:
[email protected] USE CASE CITY ADMINISTRATION 1. Overview Customer Profile “Open Networking is the best choice for public institutions. The city of Dorsten is located in West Germany in the Ruhr Disaggregated solutions are versatile, flexible, scalable, and area/Münsterland (North Rhine-Westphalia) and is home to besides allowing independence from proprietary vendors, they nearly 80,000 inhabitants. are significantly more cost-efficient than traditional solutions.” Waldemar Scheck Head of Sales and Technology at STORDIS Institution Industry Location Public Government City of Dorsten, Administration Germany Hardware Software Traditional approach Disaggregated approach 43x Edgecore Networks Switch Cumulus Linux = = 6x Core Switch Switch OS closed & high costs flexible & cost-efficient STORDIS GmbH // Rosenwiesstr. 17 // 70567 Stuttgart // Deutschland // T: +49 (0) 711 34 21 58 0 // E:
[email protected] // www.stordis.com STORDIS Limited // 18A Ley Court, Barnett Way // Gloucester GLA 3RT // UK // T: +44 (0) 1452 937 373 // E:
[email protected] USE CASE CITY ADMINISTRATION 2. The Challenge “The planned reorganization of the administration network The network environment includes raised the question of how to handle the increasing costs for 49 switches, 6 of which function as license upgrades and training courses in the future, which core switches are difficult to estimate in advance. Although there was only one vendor involved, the management of the many different CLIs had become a problem of lacking resources.