Case Study: Montana State University achieves secure, unified, high-performance networking and collaboration with Webex by Cisco

Montana State University - Customer Case Study

Montana State University, a top public research university investing over $130 million annually in research, faced a costly and fragile IT environment: two parallel, aging networks that strained staff and budget, couldn’t support high-bandwidth research collaboration, and caused failed data transfers and denial-of-service errors that compromised performance and security.

MSU deployed Cisco Digital Network Architecture with Software-Defined Access plus Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches, Webex, and Unified Communications Manager, unifying multiple physical architectures into one manageable network. The upgrade delivered role-based access and end-to-end visibility, improved network performance campus-wide, and expanded collaboration tools for students and researchers.

Montana State University

Jerry Sheehan

VP, Chief Information Officer