Case Study: City of Elgin achieves 24/7 resiliency, 10 Gigabit performance and self‑healing redundancy with Extreme Networks

Around-the-Clock Resiliency, Uptime and Performance Demands

The City of Elgin needed to replace more than 65 aging Cisco switches and upgrade its core from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit to eliminate a single point of failure and deliver redundancy, resiliency, uptime and speed. After an RFP process the City of Elgin selected Extreme Networks, which proposed a Summit-based solution (including Summit X650 Top-of-Rack and Summit X460 stackable switches) running ExtremeXOS.

Extreme Networks supplied more than 40 Summit switches, configured them with SummitStack and Ridgeline management, and completed the cutover with only about 20–30 minutes of planned downtime. The new Extreme Networks deployment delivered a 10 Gigabit core and 1 Gigabit to desktops, lowered bandwidth utilization from roughly 60–70% to 15–20%, enabled iSCSI SAN disaster-recovery capability with redundant access to city data, and provided the self‑healing, QoS-enabled reliability the City of Elgin required.

City of Elgin

Jeff Massey

Director of Information Technology Services