Case Study

Zhengzhou University boosts security and speed

Objective HPE Networking extends reach and reliability Design a campus-wide wired and wireless network to attract and retain doctoral and of campus communications graduate students

Approach Engaged with HPE to connect and integrate multiple campus locations while unifying and simplifying network management

IT Matters • Simplifies management with single- pane-of-glass view of network health • Accommodates 70,000 Internet connections daily to students, faculty and staff • Integrates with existing IPv4 networks while paving the way for IPv6

Business Matters • Meets technical requirements of national Project 211 status for doctoral student training • Extends connectivity beyond Offering 11 major areas of Challenge the classroom to outdoor and common areas study to a large graduate Triple the expertise • Boosts network availability and reliability and doctoral student Formed from the merger of three higher by eliminating single points of failure learning institutions in the summer of population, Zhengzhou 2000, Zhengzhou University represents University represents an an integration of science, engineering, medicine, history, philosophy, literature, integration of science, economics, and law. With 11 disciplines in engineering, medicine, total, the university’s offerings have made it a premier destination of advanced learning history, philosophy, in China’s Henan Province. literature, economics and Not content to offer its educational expertise law. It upgraded its wired on just a regional level, Zhengzhou University and wireless networking has also forged international alliances to benefit its students. At present, the with Hewlett Packard university has exchange relationships with Enterprise to simplify 84 institutions in more than 30 countries, including the U.S., Great Britain, France, network management Japan, Russia, and Canada. while boosting performance and security profiles. Case study Industry Page 2 Zhengzhou Higher Education University

“HPE Networking equipment offers us the ability to simplify our network structure while improving our authentication management, our security profile and our performance levels.” – Gao Jinfeng, IT director, Zhengzhou University

In addition, the university is the only “We knew we had to strengthen the reach institution in the Henan Province to and reliability of our network,” recalls Gao achieve Project 211 status—an honor Jinfeng, IT director at Zhengzhou University. that only six percent of China’s universities “We wanted to move to a redundant core receive. Project 211 schools train most of the architecture that would help us simplify country’s graduate and doctoral students management and improve performance and they receive special government funding of aggregation layer devices.” for improvements. IT staff at the university auditioned technology To retain and benefit these high-achieving from industry-leading vendors to assess the students, IT leaders at the university knew capabilities available to them, and decided that they needed to upgrade their legacy offerings from Hewlett Packard Enterprise would networking environment. With a wide range best meet their current and future needs. of gear from varying vendors, mismatched management tools and software platforms, the network was difficult to manage. Solution The result was a network plagued by performance bottlenecks with poor IPv6 Power at the core and beyond support and no wireless coverage. To deliver a flexible network core that would meet Project 211 guidelines and As wireless technology improved and Internet boost performance, Zhengzhou University access speeds accelerated, IT leaders at deployed a combination of HPE 9500 and the university realized a network upgrade HPE 7500 Switch Series in the core that offer could benefit students and teachers while high availability and eliminate single points of supporting the mission of building an failure. With hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6 increasingly prominent regional university. support built in, the university was able to The university wanted to design a wireless achieve the dual- stack network it needed network that was accessible to students, to make the transition to IPv6. faculty, staff and campus guests and that would deliver ubiquitous coverage in outdoor areas in addition to classrooms and administration buildings. Case study Industry Zhengzhou Higher Education University

Customer at a glance Benefit Today, students and teachers are benefitting from the university’s network upgrade in Hardware tangible ways. Even before they attend their • HPE 9500 Switch Series Unified management “HPE Networking equipment offers us the first class, students can securely enroll for • HPE 7500 Switch Series ability to simplify our network structure while courses online. Once enrolled, they are able • HPE F5000 Firewall Standalone Chassis improving our authentication management, to use the network to collaborate with our security profile and our performance classmates, whether through instant Software • HPE Intelligent Management Center levels,” Jinfeng explains. messaging or through Web-based (IMC) Enterprise Software Platform applications that include the ability to use audio and video. • HPE Wireless Services Manager With the HPE F5000 Firewall Standalone Software module for IMC Chassis delivering high-bandwidth performance from the campus core to the The network also gives Internet access to remote locations, long-time performance approximately 70,000 students, teachers bottlenecks have been eliminated. With and staff daily, regardless of whether these built-in protection against denial-of-service are wired or wireless connections. Using the attacks and hacking attempts, the university Wireless Services Manager Software module has found speed without sacrificing security. for HPE IMC, the university IT team can The HPE F5000 Firewall Standalone Chassis manage wireless device configuration, appliances also bring email attachment topology and performance as easily as it filtering, application bandwidth management manages its wired network environment. and audio/video IP multicast capabilities to university administrators. The total HPE Networking solution has delivered on its promise of boosting The team at Zhengzhou University has gained services, speeds and security while another feature with its HPE Networking simplifying network management. deployment: simplicity. The Intelligent Management Center (IMC) consolidates “Tens of thousands of students, teachers, management of all of its various network and faculty rely on our HPE network every elements in a single-pane-of-glass view, day of the week,” concludes Jinfeng. allowing network administrators greater “Because the IMC management platform visibility of the health of the entire network. is so simple and user-friendly, we are able to realize the total integration of our wired and “Unified management of network resources wireless networks.” through the IMC platform is an effective solution to reduce the complexities of Learn more at managing alarms, performance, topology, hpe.com/networking assets, quality of service, traffic analysis, and security,” says Jinfeng.

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