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Enterasys Helps College of the Canyons Graduate to Secure Network Connectivity
Nation's Fastest Growing Community College Deploys Secure IT Infrastructure to Support Growth
| Source: Enterasys
ANDOVER, MA--(Marketwire - January 19, 2009) - Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks
Company™, today announced that College of the Canyons has selected
Enterasys to provide secure connectivity for more than 3,000 wired and
wireless devices serving more than 24,000 students, faculty and staff
across multiple campus buildings.
Located in Valencia, California, College of the Canyons was recently named
the fastest-growing community college in the nation and has expanded
offerings to include a Small Business Development Center and High
Technology Business Incubator, among other new
technology-based course offerings. To support the increased bandwidth and
security needs brought on by the expansion, the College made the decision
to implement 10GbE network connectivity throughout all campus locations.
"We selected Enterasys solutions to meet our IT goals because they took
the time to understand our exact requirements without applying a lot of
pressure; and the products were proven to interoperate very well with our
existing vendors, including Fortinet and Adtran," said James Temple,
director of Information Technology at College of the Canyons. "Enterasys
has also been instrumental in our campus wireless project, which has
enabled us to offer students and teachers secure wireless network access in
every classroom. Our goal was to have reliable, always-on connectivity for
students, faculty and staff, regardless of their location. Enterasys
products were simple to implement and worked immediately out of the box.
We didn't have to think about it
-- it just worked!"
Enterasys' Matrix® N-Series flow-based switches facilitate the
requirements of the expanded curriculum, serving as the core of the
College's network and securely connecting students and faculty to on-line
resources such as Blackboard Enterprise servers, course registration and
document imaging. Users receive additional protection from hackers with
Enterasys' NAC solution that ensures only known users on our wireless
network have access to the College's servers while quarantining suspicious
network connectivity attempts. Temple and his staff of four network support
personnel are able to manage the entire network using Enterasys'
NetSight® Management Suite to ensure they can proactively address
problems before a student or instructor calls the helpdesk.
Temple says that Enterasys' unmatched service and support have proved to be
just as valuable as the products themselves. "I got a call one Saturday
that half our network was down," he recalled. "I resigned myself to the
fact that we would probably have to wait until Monday to get it resolved.
An Enterasys support professional showed up onsite to help, no questions
asked, and within three hours the network was up and running again. There
was no finger-pointing or blame games like some of the other vendors play.
In today's education world, nothing works without the network. Enterasys
understands this, and goes above and beyond to make sure our network is
running reliably at top performance."
About Enterasys Networks
Enterasys is part of Siemens Enterprise Communications, a joint venture
between the private equity firm The Gores Group and Siemens AG. Enterasys
delivers Secure Networks™ that ensure the confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of IT services and the business users that rely on them
-- without sacrificing performance. Thousands of enterprises, government
agencies and educational institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide
rely on our convergence, compliance and connectivity solutions to deliver
business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control of individual user
and application priority and security. The company's culture is centered on
the principle, "There is nothing more important than our customers."
Enterasys' standards-based, open-architecture approach to network security
offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business
benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about
Enterasys' award winning, policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless
products, security software and services is available at www.enterasys.com.
About Siemens Enterprise Communications
Siemens Enterprise Communications is a joint venture between the private
equity firm The Gores Group and Siemens AG. The joint venture incorporates
Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG, its worldwide affiliates
and the businesses of Enterasys Networks and SER Solutions, creating a new
leader in enterprise communications
-- strong in unified communications, contact centers and secure networks.
More than 14,000 employees worldwide follow an Open Communications
approach, providing enterprise communications and data networking solutions
for enterprises of all sizes. This enables business processes to be more
productive, faster and more secure within any network or information
technology infrastructure. In fiscal 2007, Siemens Enterprise
Communications generated revenues of approximately 3.2 billion Euros. For
more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications, please visit
www.siemens.com/open.