Case Study: Government of Northwest Territories achieves streamlined, secure network management with Extreme Networks

Large Canadian Territory Achieves Network Optimization for Almost a Decade and Counting

The Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT), which serves 33 largely remote communities and manages networks in over 500 government buildings, schools and hospitals with a 10-person network IT team, needed to increase agility, minimize complexity, run separate virtualized networks over a common infrastructure, simplify configuration and management, and improve resident-facing services. As an existing customer since 2000, GNWT turned to Extreme Networks and deployed ExtremeAnalytics, ExtremeControl, Extreme Fabric Connect, ExtremeWireless and Extreme Management Center to meet these challenges.

Extreme Networks implemented a fabric-based solution that provided dynamic VLANs and port assignments, network access control, single‑pane management and analytics across GNWT’s footprint. The deployment reduced manual configuration, sped troubleshooting with application‑level traffic insight (which helped justify Internet upgrades during COVID), simplified turn-up of remote infrastructure, enabled multicast patient monitoring and public Wi‑Fi, and delivered strong segmentation to isolate government, school and hospital traffic—boosting productivity for GNWT’s small IT team and improving resident services.

Government of Northwest Territories

Terrel Hobbs

Enterprise Network Architect