Aerohive, Brocade to offer network solutions in US varsity

NEW DELHI: Aerohive Networks and Brocade will provide wired and wireless solutions for Springhill Medical Center and Cumberland University.

Springhill Medical Center, a full-service hospital in Alabama, selected Aerohive and Brocade solutions to replace its outdated switch infrastructure, support its Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and Allscripts Sunrise platform, and to anticipate the increasing demands of emerging healthcare technologies.

The new network promises to deliver high availability 10 to 40 GbE for critical healthcare applications, while also providing rapid ROI with 30% savings on equipment and significantly reduced maintenance costs. The solutions together also provide unprecedented visibility into network traffic and dramatically simplified network management.

Organizations like Springhill Medical Center and Cumberland University are seeing phenomenal growth in their Wi-Fi infrastructure needs, driven by the rapid adoption of smartphones, tablets, and wireless devices. At the same time, Wi-Fi technology advances, such as 802.11ac with Gigabit Wi-Fi speeds, put severe demand on wired networks, this has led to a shift to wired networks with scalability to grow with enterprises’ changing Wi-Fi needs.

Cumberland University, a private university in Tennessee, needed to replace its network core and edge to support an upgraded wireless network while also delivering high resiliency, performance, and flexibility for future needs.

"We were amazed at the configuration and management simplicity of the combined Brocade-Aerohive network solution compared to our old equipment,” said Troy Hopkins, Technical Services Manager, Springhill Medical Center. “Not only do we save time, but also we don’t need specialized experts just to manage the network.”

"The physical classroom that we all know is quickly extending to the cloud so naturally, our students expect convenient access to courseware and learning resources when and where they choose. The Brocade-Aerohive stack allows us to reliably deliver a virtual classroom to students in ways we could not with our legacy infrastructure,” said William Lambert, Director of Information Technology, Cumberland University. “Brocade's stacking technologies and Aerohive's decentralized approach to wireless network management provide us with the flexibility and scalability we need to keep pace with the growing array of connected devices, streaming video, and other applications that put increasing pressure on our bandwidth resources.”

“Open standards and support for vendor-neutral protocols are essential attributes of the New IP,” said Jason Nolet, Senior Vice-President, Switching, Routing and Analytics Products Group, Brocade. “Brocade and Aerohive are providing enterprises with mobility solutions based on open standards to realize immediate savings and enable greater network agility.”