Integrator
Integrators build solutions that solve business problems using their unique expertise.
Provider
Providers deliver as-a-service and managed solutions with flexible consumption options, powered by Cisco.
Developer
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Advisor
Advisors provide expert market and business consulting services.
Learning
Learning partners enable end-user success through training and education.
Consultants
Consultants provides business and technology consulting capabilities well before the systems integration phase.
Digital solutions integrators
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Global industry partners
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Independent hardware vendors
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IT resellers
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Service providers
SPs specialize in large-scale deployment of communications and technology solutions built on Cisco platforms.
Systems integrators
SIs create complex information systems that may include designing or building a customized architecture or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, packaged and custom software, and communications.
Cisco portfolio for education: What can we help you solve today?
Student experiences
Faculty and staff experiences
Intelligent campus
Cybersecurity
Research infrastructure
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
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Student experiences
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Faculty and staff experiences
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Intelligent campus
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Cybersecurity
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Research infrastructure
Hybrid learning
Expand teaching and learning both virtually and across physical campus and classroom locations, and support more sustainable outcomes.
The Future of Education
See how Cisco delivers the most inclusive hybrid learning experience via our hardware and software solutions.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Need to create flexible learning and service spaces both on and off campus
- Shift towards flexible delivery of teaching and learning
- Ability to deliver personalized learning
- Decreasing enrollments are leading to loss of revenue
- Lower class attendance leading to drop in student engagement and success
- Faculty burn-out due to repeated virtual lectures
- Need to improve institutional brand and reputation
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
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Business needs
- Ability to deliver uninterrupted learning
- Reduce drop-out rate
- Increase quality of learning both on campus and online
- Improved student engagement
- Ability to deliver learning in a more timely, effective manner
- Personalized support for students to watch and absorb lectures at their own pace
- Ability for faculty to record and store lectures
- Simple-to-use technology for an intuitive instructor user experience
- Support more sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Enable flexible delivery of learning both on campus and virtually
- Create innovative physical and virtual environments to better engage students
- Pre-record lectures
- Ability to deliver services remotely or on campus
- View educator videos from inside LMS
- Schedule office hours from inside LMS
- Conduct virtual office hours and tutoring sessions
- Use integrated digital whiteboard on campus or remotely
- Consistent, simple technology experience whether in class or virtual
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Business outcomes
- Improved institutional brand with a solid strategy for quality and continuity of learning
- Increased student engagement, retention, and success
- Increased institutional revenue
- Higher student graduation rates
- Increased faculty retention
- More efficient use of faculty
- Flexibility for changing student needs
- Reduced student and staff travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel-related emissions
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Deans/provost
- Chief academic officer
- CFO
- CIO/CTO
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
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Wireless |
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Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Umbrella Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
7800/8800 Series IP Phones Cisco Board Series Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Kit Series Unified Communications Manager Webex Webex Calling Webex Edge (optional) Webex Education Connector (for LMS) |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Support Services for Collaboration |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Full-Stack Observability: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring |
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Full-Stack Observability: Hybrid Application Monitoring |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Multicloud Foundational Services |
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Pop-Up Site Advise and Implement Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Student support services
Deliver a range of student services, including health counseling, financial services, and academic advising in a hybrid mode.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Increasing numbers of students who require multiple services
- Student expectations of personalized, flexible, and reliable services
- Insufficient use of services due to lack of access and limited, on-site delivery models
- Increased focus on student health and wellbeing
- High student drop-out rate
- Need to attract and retain students
- Need to reach and engage non-traditional learners and students with special needs--on site and virtually
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Business needs
- Deliver multiple services at scale and without disruption
- Deliver services faster and on-demand
- Increase persistent, personalized student engagement, both on site and virtually
- Deliver timely interventions for students at risk
- Reduce drop-out rate
- Increase graduation rates
- Expand potential pool to students with some college experience but no degree
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Capabilities
- Hybrid delivery of counseling, academic advising, health, financial aid, and other services
- Track student attendance by course/section
- Provide engagement score and trends on a student-by-student basis
- Provide student engagement via mobile app with live interactions
- Prioritized alerts for faculty advisors
- Track engagement for in-person and distance learning activities
- Behavioral analytics to predict student outcomes
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Business outcomes
- Increased student engagement, retention, and success
- Faster resolution of student challenges
- Ability to address student health and wellbeing more easily and effectively
- Increased institutional revenue
- Improved institutional reputation and standing
- Improved efficiency of staff resources
- Increased student participation in campus activities
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- CFO
- Head of student affairs
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
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Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex Webex Calling Webex Edge |
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Contact center |
Cisco Contact Center Webex Contact Center Webex Connect |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Duo Cisco Umbrella Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
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Management |
Catalyst Center |
Meraki Dashboard |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces Catalyst Wireless Controller Meraki Location Analytics |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Support Services for Collaboration |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Full-Stack Observability: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring |
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Quick Start Services for Cisco Spaces, Webex, and Virtual Telehealth |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Esports and entertainment
Give students access to the technology they need to join one of the fastest-growing professional sports in the world.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Massive growth in esports audience: 600 million global viewers
- Need from university and upper grade schools to engage students with modern technologies
- Decreased university revenue means an increase in looking for funding from other sources
- Movement of the network to the cloud
- Rise of school esports leagues to make students competitive at university level
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Business needs
- Field of play: have a quality network “field” for esports team play
- Lowest latency experience for game players, broadcasting, media, and fans
- Simplified, structured, and protected ecosystem
- Reliability of network for students, whether competing on campus or practicing in the dorms
- Reduced overhead cost of secure connectivity
- Collaborative tools for students to connect and prepare with a coach
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Capabilities
- Up to 200% raw performance improvements from Cisco servers
- Next-generation infrastructure to deliver the lowest latency and highest quality
- Esports UDP processed securely and with priority when needed
- Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service for monitoring data and configuration, and connecting servers
- Architecture optimization mixing on-premise, hybrid, and cloud
- Team communication anywhere, on any device
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Business outcomes
- Increase student recruitment and enrollment
- Improve student life experience: drive retention and engagement
- Spark new industry jobs for students and create new academic programs
- Increase revenue from competitive wins and alumni donations
- Elevate event space to be a world class tournament venue
- Give differentiation for students applying to higher education
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- Director of IT
- Student life leader
- Athletics department
- Esports club president
- Faculty
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Security Special offers above |
Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Network Analytics |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
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Management |
Catalyst Center |
Meraki Dashboard |
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Data center |
Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series |
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Orchestration and automation |
Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service |
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Analytics |
AppDynamics |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
Cisco Room Kit Series Webex |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Full-Stack Observability: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Pop-Up Site Advise and Implement Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Personalized residential experiences
Optimize the campus residential experience with individual, home-like access for each student.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- High student expectations due to high tuition rates
- Student expectations of a home wireless experience
- Increased use of residential wireless applications to monitor student engagement and success
- Many student devices use plug-and-play access, challenging in campus networks
- Competition from private living residences
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Business needs
- Ease transition for students from home to university life
- Retain students in residence hall contracts to increase revenue
- Provide advantages over private residences
- Reduce complexity of residence hall network operational support
- Address increasing wireless bandwidth demand from students
- Provide low-latency wired solution for increasing student gaming demand
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Capabilities
- Student self-service mobile app for onboarding
- App allows for onboarding of student devices to their “home” network
- Network access only for personal devices, reducing shared visibility and increasing security
- Student invites friend(s) to personal network
- Operational visibility to student network devices
- Utilize strategic advantage of network architecture
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Business outcomes
- Better student residential experience, better residential retention
- Better student academic outcomes with better wireless experience
- Lower operational staff load from fewer trouble tickets
- Higher wireless throughput and device load support
- Reduce nefarious access to personal shared devices
- Higher residential revenue from increased occupancy rates
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- Director of IT
- Director of residential housing
- Residence hall advisor
- Provost, chief academic officer
- Director of facilities
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Switching (access) |
Catalyst 9300 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Management |
Catalyst Center Catalyst Premier or Catalyst Advantage software User Defined Network Plus |
Meraki Dashboard Wi-Fi Personal Network (WPN) Onboarding portal |
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Identity services |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
Meraki Dashboard |
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Security Special offers above |
Secure Network Analytics |
Meraki MX Security and SD-WAN Portfolio |
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Student mobile app |
Cisco User Defined Network Plus |
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Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet user-defined network APIs |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Full-Stack Observability: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Pop-Up Site Advise and Implement Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Communications
Boost your educator and staff communications, productivity, and ability to work from anywhere.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Growing expectation for worker flexibility
- Legacy communications systems difficult to maintain
- Increasing operational costs
- Increase in number of communication channels
- Increasing number of emergency service compliance requirements
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Business needs
- Ability to flexibly and securely work on-site or remotely
- Need to maintain continuous campus communications
- Reduce and streamline the number of communications applications
- Need to easily communicate with community constituents
- Communications platform that complies with emergency service requirements
- Keep educators, staff, and student community connected, despite location
- Need for professional development and training via hybrid models
- Secure documentation of voice, video, and text communications
- Secure access to work resources both on-site and virtually
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Capabilities
- Secure voice, video, and text communications
- Simplified experience that allows business and personal phone numbers on a single device
- Business and personal charges on single device kept separate
- Conduct live video calls with any number of participants from any device
- Record meetings for review and for missed participants
- Continue discussion after meeting in secure, private messaging spaces
- Conduct large-scale video broadcasts--locally and globally
- Broadcast messages across customized digital signage
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Business outcomes
- Increased recruitment and retention of qualified faculty and staff
- Better communications and collaboration across administrative leaders and education community
- Better administrative decision making across teams
- Streamlined staff training
- Elimination of travel time and need to travel to meetings
- Reduced staff travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel related emissions
- Validated compliance metrics
- Improve regularity, access, and efficiency of meetings
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provosts
- CIO
- CBO
- CFO
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
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Switching |
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Wireless |
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SD-WAN |
Catalyst SD-WAN |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Management and operations |
Catalyst Center |
Meraki Dashboard |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Umbrella Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Client Secure Remote Access |
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Application performance |
AppDynamics |
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Calling |
Unified Communications Manager Webex Calling |
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Contact center |
Webex Connect |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
7800/8800 Series IP Phones Cisco Headset 900, 700, 500 Series Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Kit Series Unified Communications Manager Webex Webex Edge (optional) |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Hybrid teaching and professional development
Support faculty initiatives and career development with new ways to meet, learn, and collaborate.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Faculty and staff need pedagogical and technical support to transition to hybrid learning and services
- Students require flexible learning and services options
- Difficulty allocating full, separate days for professional development
- Need to attract and retain top faculty
- Need to make professional development persistent and ongoing rather than one-off and infrequent
- Global transition of faculty and staff to hybrid work
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
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Business needs
- Help faculty use technology virtually and in the classroom
- Improve faculty collaboration and best-practice sharing
- Improve faculty proficiency with hybrid learning
- Increase quality of teaching and learning
- Develop metrics around faculty development
- Adhere to faculty compliance and professional development requirements
- Support more sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Create and deliver online content and training for faculty
- Deliver faculty collaboration platform that offers persistent development opportunities
- Report completion of participation
- Enable meetings with remote faculty
- Invite guest professional development lecturers
- Hands-free, secure, assisted reality-based collaboration with features to get connected with students and other researchers from anywhere
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Business outcomes
- Increased faculty engagement and proficiency in delivering courses virtually
- Improved faculty hiring and retention
- Better student engagement and success
- Increased faculty satisfaction
- Reduced travel cost and continued development, regardless of where the faculty resides
- Better organizational compliance
- Reduced faculty and staff travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel-related emissions
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Stakeholders
- Directors of education technology
- Chancellor
- President
- Dean/provost
- CBO
- CFO
- CIO
- CTO
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
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Switching |
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Wireless |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
7800/8800 Series IP Phones Cisco Headset 900, 700, 500 Series Cisco Board Series Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Kit Series Webex Webex Calling Webex Edge (optional) Webex Education Connector (for LMS) Webex Expert on Demand |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Full-Stack Observability: Hybrid Application Monitoring |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Campus network and wireless
Empower students, faculty, and staff to connect anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Shift to hybrid learning and work
- Increased use of digital resources
- Increased number of devices connecting to the network
- Digitization of student services
- Increased reliance on network data and analytics to drive student retention and success
- Digitization of campus communications
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Business needs
- Persistent access to digital content and resources
- High-quality connectivity for multiple devices
- Ability to access digital learning and services anywhere on campus
- Reduced network management complexity
- Protection against malicious Wi-Fi behavior
- Home-like Wi-Fi experience in residential facilities
- Wi-Fi access for visitors
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Capabilities
- Scalable, flexible network that can accommodate shifts in remote and on-campus access
- Secure, high-quality connectivity in large spaces, auditoriums, and outdoors
- Remote IT support for student devices
- Flexible delivery of learning
- Scalable broadcast video anywhere on campus
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Business outcomes
- Higher student engagement, retention and success with persistent availability of digital content
- Increased student enrollment revenue
- Expansion of campus operations functions and apps, like video and collaboration
- Reduced IT problem resolution time and resources required
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- IT directors
- Administrative services
- Learning technology leaders
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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SD-WAN |
SD-WAN Software-defined MPLS |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Security Special offers above |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Management Center Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX Security and SD-WAN Portfolio |
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Analytics |
ThousandEyes |
Meraki Insight |
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Management |
Catalyst Center SD-Access |
Meraki Dashboard |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Community broadband and equitable access
- Overview
- Business overview
- Products and services
- __________
Ensure that all students have access to high-quality, reliable, and secure connectivity.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Lack of affordable, reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity for all students
- Increased reliance on connectivity for learning and services
- Government focus on ensuring connectivity for all students
- New capabilities via broadband and mobile technologies that will expand the use and reliance on mobile devices for teaching and learning
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Business needs
- Affordable, accessible, easy, and secure connectivity for all students
- Secure connectivity that is easy for IT to manage
- Need for sufficient bandwidth for students to access online learning and service applications
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Capabilities
- Higher bandwidth over the same wide-area optical plant
- Lower energy consumption, reducing cost and environmental impact
- Increased high-speed application performance and scalability
- Flexible, open management platform across multiple systems
- Connect students to school network for learning access
- Optimize network software capabilities to reduce ongoing cost, while increasing performance to any size/scale
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Business outcomes
- Deliver student access to learning--anytime, anywhere, from any device
- Extend school or university network to where students live--affordably and with secure access to learning resources
- Enable faculty members to access school resources from anywhere
- Create a cost-efficient solution for better network access
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- Chief academic officer
- Superintendent
- Principal
- Education technology lead
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points |
Meraki MR Outdoor Access Points Meraki Dashboard |
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WAN radio networking |
Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) |
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WAN management |
Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul FM‑MONITOR |
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WAN cloud management |
Cisco Private 5G as a Service |
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Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 500 Series |
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Switching |
Catalyst IE3300 Rugged Series Switches |
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Optical networking |
Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 1000 Series |
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Data center |
Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series |
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Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Umbrella Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Management Center Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
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Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet user-defined network APIs |
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Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Smart and sustainable buildings
Optimize the campus experience with facilities automation, lighting and energy efficiency, environmental control, and occupancy analytics to cut costs and support more sustainable outcomes.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Stakeholders’ sustainability goals
- Cost pressures
- Increased public funding for sustainability initiatives
- Student expectations of a modern, digital, and sustainable campus experience
- Need to save time and money on campus operations, energy, and labor costs
- Need for modern and efficient academic, administrative, and health services for students, faculty, and staff
- Increased data from explosion of devices and IoT sensors
- Multiple wiring systems for data and power, and IoT data formats that are difficult to manage
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
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Business needs
- Reduce energy costs, waste, and inefficiencies
- Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Support energy monitoring with sensors and data collection systems
- Reduce labor costs and improve service reliability through automation
- Reduce complexity of data sources and sensors and maximize insights these sources provide
- Leverage volume and breadth of data to improve operations
- Drive efficient use of resources
- Collect data to analyze student learning and success
- Need to redesign campuses to accommodate students who will be on-campus and remote
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Capabilities
- Deliver proximity tracing and density monitoring
- Detect and manage building occupancy, temperature, lighting, etc.
- Normalize data storage formats for non-standard sensors and data sources
- Consolidate operations dashboards across multiple functions
- Deliver smart waste management
- Maximize space utilization and monitor density by identifying high- and low-density classroom and campus space use
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) can support reduction in energy consumption
- Automate and optimize energy resource usage
- Smart buildings and renewable energy integration
- Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure
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Business outcomes
- Lower operational, energy, and labor costs
- Improved on-campus experience for students, faculty, and staff
- Support collection of standard tuition by returning students to campus
- Optimized resource utilization
- Higher quality and higher volume of data to drive improved services and analytical insights
- Support sustainability goals related to energy consumption, water usage, and waste
- Balance energy needs by integrating on-site renewable energy
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Director of IT
- Head of facilities
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
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Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
|
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Cameras |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
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Sensors |
Meraki MT Sensors |
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SD-WAN |
Catalyst SD-WAN |
Meraki SD-WAN |
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Management |
Cisco Edge Intelligence |
Meraki Dashboard |
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Compute |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) E-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Docker containers in switches and access points |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Umbrella Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
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Collaboration Special offers above |
Cisco Board Series Cisco Room Kit Series Cisco Room Navigator Webex Webex Control Hub |
|
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Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet |
|
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
|
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Pop-Up Site Advise and Implement Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Hybrid cloud management
Harness the insights of your data to create more efficient and effective campus operations.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Rapid acceleration of digital technologies
- Explosion of new applications housed in containers, virtualized environments, and clouds
- Creation of massive data sets
- Need to constrain costs in highly budget-sensitive environments
- Shift toward new SaaS and IaaS models across the industry
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Business needs
- Manage thousands of policies across a containerized, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Policies need to follow applications wherever they reside
- More efficiently troubleshoot and fix issues
- Pass policy and compliance audits
- Reduce and manage security risk
- See the full stack of available data
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Capabilities
- Scalable and agile application and data architecture
- Capture the intent from the network, gaining a better understanding of network and application usage
- Automate, enforce, and ensure intent across data center network
- Ensure continuous, formal verifications, insights, and corrective actions
- Proactively pinpoint deviations from intended behaviors and recommend remediation
- Prevent outages before they occur
- Unified, proactive visibility into app experiences
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Business outcomes
- Shorter resolution time
- Quickly fix issues
- Pass audits more easily
- Reduce risk of human error-induced network failures
- Make decisions based upon actionable insights
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- CISO
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Infrastructure domain | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Security edge |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Catalyst SD-WAN Secure Firewall |
Meraki MX Security and SD-WAN Portfolio |
|
Transport spine Transport spine/leaf Transport leaf |
Nexus 9500 Series Modular Switches Nexus 9300 Series Switches (40/100/400GE) Nexus 9300 Series Switches (1/10/25GE Fiber) Nexus 9x00 Series Switches (1/10GBaseT) |
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Data center compute |
Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) X-Series |
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Data center storage |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Unified Computing System (UCS) S-Series |
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Data center fabric |
MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Interconnects |
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Orchestration and automation |
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Cisco Container Platform |
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Analytics |
AppDynamics ThousandEyes Secure Workload |
|
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
|
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Cloud Advisory Services for Multicloud |
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Full-Stack Observability: Hybrid Application Monitoring |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
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Multicloud Foundational Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Physical safety
Protect students and staff with video surveillance IP cameras and analytics that monitor campus activity, analyze health concern patterns, and detect threats faster.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Campus safety continues to be an imperative
- Students do not engage or stay on campus when they feel unsafe
- Support health concern measures
- On-campus residential housing has 24x7 security responsibility
- Campuses are open, physical environments
- Budget constraint on additional security staffing
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Business needs
- Increase student safety and wellness
- Reduce campus violence and crime
- Protect residential housing environments
- Enable sense of openness across campus
- Notify broadly during emergency situations
- Provide feedback to students about potential safety considerations
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Capabilities
- Locate and identify video evidence on-demand
- Utilize video analytics or location services to support safety concern measures
- Analyze secure locations, such as residential housing
- Notify all constituencies quickly and effectively during emergencies on all platforms
- Broadcast emergency information on digital signage
- Integrate live communication with local law enforcement
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Business outcomes
- Reduced campus crime
- Students, staff, and guests feel safer
- Increased evidence for criminal prosecution
- Increased security capability with more focused security staff
- More responsive and effective internal/external emergency communications
- Increased student and parent confidence in safety of campus spaces
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Stakeholders
- CFO
- President
- Chancellor
- Provost
- CIO
- CISO
- Campus safety officers
- Local law enforcement
- Campus health office
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
|
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Security Special offers above |
Secure Network Analytics |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
Meraki Location Analytics |
|
Management |
|
Meraki Dashboard |
|
Video surveillance |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
|
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Cisco Board Series Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Series Unified Communications Manager Webex Webex Control Hub |
|
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Integration services |
DevNet |
|
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Network, endpoint, and web security
Ensure the physical and virtual safety of students, faculty, staff, and data.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Large increase in number of students and remote workers, including faculty and staff, connecting to the network
- Increase in cyber-crime and cyber-bullying
- Increased security risks due to growing use of shadow and non-compliant technology
- Bad actors steal university data with coordinated attacks
- Colleges and universities required by law to protect student personal data
- University research data highly valuable
- Reputational damage and potential ransom payments caused by security breaches
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Business needs
- Effectively and efficiently deploy, manage, secure, and maintain university-owned devices and BYOD environment for students, faculty, and staff
- Protect university research data while allowing inter-campus projects
- Protect personal student data
- Protect core school or university administrative assets
- Reduce institutional risk of loss
- Ensure security compliance for sensitive research
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Capabilities
- Allow student, faculty, and staff BYOD to be onboarded effectively
- Detect network traffic anomalies
- Detect malicious behavior from encrypted transmissions without compromising security
- Defend highly sensitive administrative or research devices
- Enable new threat detection quickly
- Extend data protections and monitoring to any campus services, anywhere
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Business outcomes
- Fewer campus legal issues due to information theft, online crime, etc.
- Increased student availability and use of learning technology in the classroom and remotely
- Reduced institutional risk of loss
- Reduced ransomware threat
- Protected university reputation
- Protect research programs funded by national/federal funding with security compliance
- Reduced campus legal issues due to information theft
- Reduce risk of down time
- Reduced energy usage due to virtualization efficiency
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- Dean
- CIO
- CFO
- CISO
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
|
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Security Cloud Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Cloud Analytics Secure Email Secure Endpoint Secure Endpoint for iOS Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
|
Remote telework |
Meraki Z4 teleworker gateway |
|
|
Management |
Meraki Systems Manager |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Cybersecurity Management Program Assessment |
|
|
Full-Stack Observability: Application Security |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Identity and access control
Protect data, research, and intellectual property by only providing access to those who are authorized.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Increased numbers of remote students and workers connecting to the network
- Increased number of network vulnerability points as remote work and learning increases
- Many different campus constituents with different access requirements
- BYOD highly prevalent
- Potential data loss due to improper access
- Need for users to access data/information that is theirs
- Complex access policies that must be enforced
-
Business needs
- Correctly identify individuals and device types
- Define and enforce access policies that match the individual and/or device
- Reduce compromised accounts
- Provide appropriate access to defined individuals when they need it
- Ensure security compliance for sensitive research
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Capabilities
- Identify many different types of devices and users
- Match individual identity to policy enforcement
- Enable guest access with strict access policy
- Secure remote researcher/administrator data access
- Recognize compromised faculty/researcher accounts quickly
- Utilize cross-institution identity support through InCommon and Internet2 NET+
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Business outcomes
- Reduction in data/information loss
- Increased visibility into cloud storage services
- Reduced number of accounts compromised
- Protect research programs funded by national/federal funding with security compliance
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Stakeholders
- Directors of education technology
- Chancellor
- President
- CIO
- CISO
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
Meraki Switches (MS) Series |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points |
Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Cloud Analytics Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
|
Remote telework |
Meraki Z4 teleworker gateway |
|
|
Management |
Meraki Systems Manager |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Cybersecurity Management Program Assessment |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Education cloud security
Protect research and intellectual property with fast, continuous threat detection embedded across the entire network.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Demand for high-profile research programs that drive revenue and institutional prestige
- Demand for research dollars to fund programs
- High profile research projects that require protection of high-volume, sensitive data
- Fear of cyber attack that damages and/or exposes sensitive data and intellectual property
- Research collaboration across institutions, organizations, and locations creates security vulnerabilities
-
Business needs
- Secure environments that protect sensitive research data and intellectual property
- Proactive, advance warning intervention systems to stop cyber attacks before they occur
- Security both inside and outside the network to detect and remediate vulnerabilities created by multi-organization, collaborative research partnerships
-
Capabilities
- Immediate threat detection and prevention
- Threat remediation
- Data protection
- Collaboration security
-
Business outcomes
- Faster, more secure research results
- Improved safety and security of research results and intellectual property
- Improved institutional reputation
- Increased research dollars
- Improved research faculty recruitment and retention
- Protect research programs funded by national or federal funding
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Stakeholders
- President
- Academic deans
- Heads of research
- CIO
- CSO
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
|
|
Switching |
|
|
|
Wireless |
|
|
|
Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access Secure Workload |
Meraki MX450 Security and SD-WAN Appliance Meraki MX250 Security and SD-WAN Appliance |
|
Network analytics |
Secure Workload (Tetration) |
|
|
Remote telework |
Meraki Z4 teleworker gateway |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Cybersecurity Management Program Assessment |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Research and education networks
Connect and manage campuses together into a single network at high speeds across city, regional, national, and international locations.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Accelerating data transfer needs
- University research requires intense collaboration between researchers
- Growing security concerns for academic research
- Increased government and corporate investment to solve global problems
- Accelerated movement of campus resources to the cloud
- New, complex data-analysis and modeling software requires more bandwidth and speed
-
Business needs
- Support the data-intensive research
- Connect, automate, and secure tools and processes
- Provide more wide-area bandwidth at a consistent or lower cost
- Save time and cost through automated configuration, coordination, and management
- Reduce total cost of ownership and power consumption of IT services
- Reduce network management complexity while increasing programmability
-
Capabilities
- Higher bandwidth over the same wide-area optical plant
- Lower energy consumption, reducing cost and environmental impact
- Increase high-speed application performance and scalability
- Flexible, open management platform across multiple systems
- Implement an edge-to-edge service layer, connecting disparate multidomain networks
- Enable a software-driven infrastructure with portals and APIs for automation and orchestration
-
Business outcomes
- Increased research funding opportunities
- Stronger institutional reputation for innovation
- Lower in-house network operations expense
- Increased number of simultaneous applications between campuses, institutions, or school buildings
- Offset cost/energy savings into other initiatives
-
Stakeholders
- President
- CIO
- Deans of schools with research departments
- Head of research
- Principle investigator
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 500 Series |
|
Switching |
|
|
Wireless |
|
|
Optical networking |
Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 1000 Series |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service |
|
Network orchestration |
Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) |
|
Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Umbrella Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access |
|
WAN cloud management |
Cisco Private 5G as a Service |
|
Developer and application ecosystem |
DevNet user-defined network APIs |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Full-Stack Observability: Hybrid Application Monitoring |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Secure data and intellectual property
Protect proprietary, valuable institutional research data and intellectual property.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Valuable research intellectual property being stolen from campuses, sometimes by nation actors
- High value of current and future research grant revenue
- Large increase in number of remote workers, including faculty and staff, connecting to research resources
- Increase in cyber crime targeting universities
- Increased security risks due to growing use of shadow and non-compliant technology
- Bad actors steal university data with coordinated attacks
-
Business needs
- Secure infrastructure that enables implementation of security policy for differentiated access to resources
- Effectively and efficiently deploy, manage, secure, and maintain university-owned devices, as well as a secure BYOD environment for students, faculty, and staff
- Protect university research data while allowing inter-campus and industry projects
- Collaboration between institutions and industry with no risk of loss
- Reduce institutional risk of loss
- Ensure security compliance for sensitive research
-
Capabilities
- Allow students, faculty, and staff to gain BYOD access to resources in accordance with policy through appropriate segmentation
- Automated deployment and validation of policy onto infrastructure
- Defend highly sensitive administrative or research devices
- Enable new threat detection and alerting of infrastructure vulnerabilities
- Secure remote researcher/research collaborator access to data
- Recognize compromised researcher accounts quickly
- Secure and encrypt collaboration and exchange of intellectual property between institutions
-
Business outcomes
- Reduced institutional risk of loss
- Reduced operational time to ensure policy compliance through automation
- Protected university reputation and brand
- Protect research programs funded by national/federal funding with security compliance
- Reduced campus legal issues due to information theft
- Greater collaboration between institutions and industry
-
Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Provost
- Dean
- CIO
- CFO
- CISO
- VP of Research
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform |
|
Switching |
Catalyst 9000 Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
|
Identity services |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
|
Security Special offers above |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Security Cloud Cisco Umbrella Cloudlock Secure Endpoint Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics Secure Remote Access Secure Workload (Tetration) |
|
Management |
Catalyst Center SD-Access |
|
Remote telework |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Smart Net Total Care |
|
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Cybersecurity Management Program Assessment |
|
|
Full-Stack Observability: Application Security |
|
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right education solutions for your school size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Remote research and collaboration
Support research innovation with seamless, secure, and sustainable collaboration and access to computing resources.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Need for research to continue either on campus or remotely
- Institutions and researchers are often dispersed across multiple buildings, campuses, and disparate institutions
- Growing security concerns for academic research
- Increased government and corporate investment in university research to solve global problems
- Accelerated movement of campus resources to the cloud
- Institutions pride and differentiate themselves on level of research funding and connection and collaboration with other research institutions
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
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Business needs
- Ability to attract highly-regarded researchers who can garner funding for research projects
- Need for secure communications and collaboration between researchers and research institutions
- Require best-in-class research environments, which include leading-edge communications and collaboration capabilities
- Reach researchers in remote or rural locations
- Researchers need to connect with one another in a simple, seamless, and secure way
- Support more sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Ability for researchers to connect with one another--anytime, anywhere, on any device--over both voice and video
- Tools that enable researchers to collaborate on documents and whiteboard concepts while persistently communicating
- Securely share content, meeting recordings, and conversations between researchers
- Instantly communicate with one another and bring other researchers and experts to projects
- Communicate with research grant funders and participating corporations
- Hands-free, secure, assisted reality-based collaboration with features to get connected with students and other researchers from anywhere
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Business outcomes
- Better connections between researchers
- Expanded research opportunities
- Faster research results
- Reduced risk in sharing sensitive, confidential information
- Expanded reach of research collaboration and communications
- Increased diversity of thought through sharing across diverse researchers and stakeholders
- Reduced student, staff, and faculty travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel-related emissions
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Stakeholders
- CIO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Deans of schools with research projects
- Head of research
- Principal investigator
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Free trials and special offers
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Meraki Z4 teleworker gateway |
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7800/8800 Series IP Phones Cisco Headset 900, 700, 500 Series Cisco Board Series Cisco Desk Series Cisco Room Kit Series Unified Communications Manager Webex Webex Calling Webex Edge (optional) |
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Research computing
Power groundbreaking research that can analyze vast quantities of data across fields.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Research grants and funding tied to campus research reputation
- Research environments require a strong computational element
- Push/pull between research computation needs versus university enterprise networks shared with IT
- Growing security concerns for academic research
- Increased government and corporate investment in university research to solve global problems
- Intersection of high-performance computing and AI
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Business needs
- Attract research funding and grants through leading-edge computational environment
- Attract top-level researchers through campus computational excellence
- Ensure security of research networks
- Easily provision and manage research networks
- Integrate research compute environment with cloud services
- Ensure security compliance for sensitive research
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Capabilities
- Deploy compute cluster environments with centralized and departmental resources
- Get high density, low latency, and power efficiency from computational switching infrastructure
- Scale storage through programmable storage networking
- Massive 400G network bandwidth
- Connect seamlessly to cloud compute/storage service providers
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Business outcomes
- Accelerate the pace of scientific innovation
- Increased research grant funding
- New leading-edge research professors hired
- Increased computational facilities build-out
- Increased research papers produced and new discoveries
- Streamline provisioning and management of research network
- Save time and money converging research and enterprise networks
- Protect research programs funded by national/federal funding with security compliance
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Stakeholders
- Chancellor
- President
- Research chairs
- Principal investigator
Products and services
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Nexus Switches Portfolio MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Interconnects Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Extenders |
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Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Cisco Container Platform Catalyst 8000V Edge Software |
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Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Secure Network Analytics |
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MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) |
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Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners—whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished—entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
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