Case Study: Indiana Department of Transportation achieves safer, smoother traffic monitoring with Extreme Networks' Fabric Connect

Hoosier Highways Flow More Safely, Smoothly With Video

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) operates a statewide network of roughly 350 cameras to monitor urban interstates, but a sprawling, undocumented network with frequent multicast/PIM problems led to intermittent video outages that hindered traffic monitoring and response. To simplify multicast complexity and add redundancy, INDOT chose Extreme Networks and deployed Extreme Fabric Connect (along with VSP 8400 and ERS 4000/3000 series) to stabilize video delivery and improve manageability.

Extreme Networks implemented Extreme Fabric Connect across INDOT’s sites, providing redundant shortest-path routing, faster provisioning and remote connectivity that enabled a flawless daytime flash cutover of 28 locations at once. The new fabric reduced troubleshooting (engineers previously spent 20–30% of their week on PIM issues), cut multihour/manday fixes to minutes for device stand-up, eliminated many call-outs, immediately improved capacity after cutover, and freed staff to focus on proactive tasks while enabling planned camera expansion for safer, smoother highways.

Indiana Department of Transportation

Ben Fischer

Network Engineer