Case Study: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff achieves a secure, high-performance, cost-saving campus network with Extreme Networks

Extreme Enables University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to Have “One of the Top Networks” in the State of Arkansas System

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an 1890 Land-Grant HBCU with about 2,500 students and 800 faculty/staff, faced rising BYOD and mobility demands, security and bandwidth pressures, and a two-person IT team working with a tight budget. To modernize and reduce operating costs they selected Extreme Networks to replace their aging Cisco infrastructure, deploying Extreme’s wired and wireless portfolio including S-Series switches, C-Series, IdentiFi Wireless, OneFabric Control Center, NetSight, Network Access Control and Mobile IAM.

Working with implementation partner IK Electric, Extreme Networks delivered an integrated solution—S-Series CoreFlow core, Mobile IAM, NAC, NetSight management and IdentiFi wireless under the OneFabric dashboard—providing centralized policy, device visibility and automated management. The Extreme Networks deployment produced a high-performance, secure and highly available network with minimal downtime, reduced maintenance costs (limited lifetime warranty and fewer EOL-driven upgrades), increased IT productivity (the two-person team now manages the campus centrally with fewer complaints) and even supported the university’s first supercomputer, delivering clear ROI and improved user experience.

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Willette Totten

Director of Technical Service