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Virtual service networks in a campus network: Learn from these use cases

The three major FlexCampus virtual service network (VSN) building blocks include: VSNA, FlexCampus Unified Controller and OpenFlow. Here, let’s take a closer look at how these innovative technologies can be applied in the real world. I purposely chose the two uses cases below because these trends are already in play and are ascending quickly in many businesses and higher education institutions.

Businesses of all sizes need to ensure they are spending wisely as they strive to increase their revenues and keep customers satisfied. However, with much of the low-hanging fruit of business efficiency harvested over the last several years, SMBs must find new ways to maintain―and grow―revenues while holding down cost.  We look at five ways to use technology to drive efficiencies in the coming year.

By Steve Brar, Global Product Marketing Manager, HP Networking

It has been a little over a week now since HP announced commercial support for OpenFlow on a wide-range of products in its switching portfolio. I wanted to share some highlights from the announcement as well as real-life deployment scenarios that were presented by HP and our customers. Here’s a quick look at the OpenFlow announcement event—and a look ahead at what’s coming next.

By Dean Snyder, Global Product Strategy, HP Networking  

Is your campus LAN edge experiencing one or more of the following BYOD concerns: rapid wireless growth, security breaches, challenges delivering consistent services, administrative time/costs spent managing the infrastructure is spiraling out of control. If any of these challenges sound familiar, now may be the right time to learn more about HP FlexCampus VSN architecture.

By Carol Shottes, Converged Infrastructure Marketing Manager, HP  

If you had a communications network that hadn’t been updated in a decade and a data center with servers and storage systems that were aging and underperforming, where would you expect an IT director to first make improvements?  I would have said, “in the data center.” And I would have been wrong.  Roxbury Community College’s first priority was to improve the user experience by providing high-speed Internet access for students and teachers.  I was excited to learn about RCC’s approach because it demonstrates the importance of the network as the foundation of a converged infrastructure.