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“Having a single point of management for Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders through the Cisco Nexus 5000 enabled us to manage twice the number of devices with the same size team.” – Dennis Crowe, Director of Network Engineering

Apollo Group

• Higher education

• 21,777employees

• +40,000 students

• 200 campuses

• Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona

• Founded in 1973

• Cisco data center customer since 2010

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Ensure high availability of learning and business applications

• Enhance student experience by replacing faulty switches

• Meet future student demand with modular and scalable architecture

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco Nexus platform provides 10 GigE connectivity needed to

virtualize

• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders minimize management points

• vPC feature of Nexus switches eliminate Spanning Tree

BENEFITS• Doubled network size without increasing staff

• Lowered per-port switch costs while increasing ports

• Delivered excellent student experience even during peak times

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Switches

• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches

• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders

• Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform

• Three data centers