Cisco CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0 Information Guide
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Customer Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name: St. Jo
hn’s University
Industry: Higher Education
Location: Queens, NY
Number of Students: 21,000
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
● Offer reliable, high-performance wired and
wireless access from everywhere on campus
● Support simultaneous use of multiple devices
● Help enable innovation through
● Help enable innovation through
videoconferencing and multimedia
NETWORK SOLUTION
● Cisco Unified Access solution, with integrated
management for wired and wireless networks
BUSINESS RESULTS
● Delivered reliable, high-performance coverage
everywhere on campus
● Supported ongoing bring-your-own-device
trend
● Allowed classes to be taught through
videoconferencing
University Innovates with New Wireless Network
Cisco wireless network helps St John’s University meet demand for BYOD access and
provide new classroom capabilities.
provide new classroom capabilities.
Business Challenge
St. John’s University is a private Vincentian Catholic university with
more than 21,000 full- and part-time students at six locations: Rome,
Paris, and four campuses in New York. The University offers an
education that is both rooted in tradition and focused on progress: in
2003, it began giving a laptop computer to every incoming student
and each faculty member. This bold move underscored the
institution’s commitment to providing its students full access to state-
institution’s commitment to providing its students full access to state-
of-the-art educational tools, to optimize their learning experience and
prepare them to succeed in the outside w
orld. St. John’s also wired
the entire campus, with one wired connection per student in each of
the dorm rooms, and implemented a wireless network with
autonomous access points (APs).
“We were ahead of the times,” says Joseph Tufano, VP and CIO of
St. John
’s University. “But times have changed. You see it
everywhere: for example, if you go to a basketball game on campus,
and there’s a timeout, everybody is using their mobile devices.” With
and there’s a timeout, everybody is using their mobile devices.” With
the advent of smartphones and tablets, students and faculty are
bringing in their own devices, on average two or three each, and
often using more than one of them at once. The University needs to
meet rising expectations of high-speed wireless access to support
this bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, from everywhere on th
e St. John’s four New York locations: Queens,
Staten Island, Manhattan, and Oakdale.