Case Study: Nazareth College achieves reliable, high-performance campus Wi-Fi and unified wired/wireless management with Extreme Networks

Unified, Resilient, Easy-to-Manage Network for a Bright Future

Nazareth College, a suburban Rochester liberal-arts school serving 3,700 students, faculty and staff across 30 buildings and 11 residence halls, faced increasing BYOD and bandwidth demands that strained its legacy wireless and wired network. To deliver a unified, easy-to-manage, future-ready infrastructure, Nazareth selected Extreme Networks and deployed a homogenous solution including ExtremeSwitching, ExtremeWireless, ExtremeManagement, ExtremeControl and ExtremeAnalytics along with an 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless rollout.

Extreme Networks implemented a campus-wide upgrade—moving to 10G uplinks, resilient designs with no single point of failure and 40G+ throughput in most areas—so IT can view and manage wired and wireless from a single pane of glass. The Extreme Networks deployment now reliably supports 8,500 unique devices, delivers faster, more predictable connectivity, eliminates frequent firefighting, and gives students seamless roaming and a “Wi‑Fi that works like a utility.”

Nazareth College

Vince Anderson

Director of Enterprise and Network Solutions