Case Study: Imperial College London achieves secure, high-performance, IPv6-ready campus mobility with Extreme Networks

Imperial College London Takes on the Future with Large-scale Network Upgrade Featuring Mobility, Security and IPv6

Imperial College London, serving more than 20,000 students and staff across seven campuses and teaching hospitals, needed a large-scale network upgrade to support mobility, IPv6, converged voice/video, PoE devices and to centralize edge management for better security and visibility. After a formal public tender the college selected Extreme Networks, deploying ExtremeXOS® and Summit X450/X250 switches to modernize its campus network.

Extreme Networks delivered a centrally managed, carrier-class converged Ethernet edge—deploying more than 1,000 Summit switches running ExtremeXOS—to provide secure wired and wireless access, IPv4/IPv6 support and centralized policy enforcement. The upgrade delivered measurable capacity and performance gains (48.8–97.6 Gbps switch fabric, 65.5–72.6 Mpps forwarding, 40 Gbps stacking), predictable service for ~20,000 users, simplified operations and reduced IT effort while maintaining high availability and automated threat detection.

Imperial College London

Matthew Williams

Head of Networks and Infrastructure