One of Chinas oldest, most prestigious, and selective universities, SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (SJTU), has deployed a brand new 10 Gbps community spine spanning its 5 campuses to accommodate the continued progress of knowledge visitors from tutorial and administrative methods. The new spine, which runs on highly effective switching routers from Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD), has enabled the college to scale back prices and streamline administration by migrating functions that beforehand ran over separate networks onto a single infrastructure. The Brocade resolution additionally paves the way in which for SJTU to pursue its pursuits in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), each at a tutorial degree and as a strategy to help digital campus service innovation.
Founded by imperial edict in 1896, SJTU grew to become famend for nurturing Chinas high engineers and scientists and, by the Nineteen Thirties, was known as the “Eastern MIT.” Since the late Nineteen Seventies, SJTU has grown considerably and now additionally encompasses training in enterprise, legislation, medication, life science, and social sciences. Today it has a scholar inhabitants of just about 40,000 — greater than half of whom are learning for post-graduates levels — and a college of greater than 1,900 professors and affiliate professors, together with 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
“We operate a large and complex network that has to reliably deliver services to tens of thousands of wired and wireless devices across our campuses,” stated Rui Xie, director of Network Information at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “Weve been using Brocade MLX Series routers in our backbone for the last nine years and theyve proved to be very robust, so when it came time to select a new generation of infrastructure we looked at Brocade first. The Brocade MLXe routers we recently deployed have enabled us to cut network management costs by 50 percent while increasing core network performance 10 times. They provide us with a solid pathway, based on open standards, into the world of SDN.”
Brocade community engineers labored with SJTU to plot an answer that meet its wants, primarily based round BROCADE MLXE CORE ROUTERS. The routers are constructed with a state-of-the-art, sixth-generation community processor-based structure and terabit-scale change materials that allow the college to run the spine at 10 Gbps — with the potential to help 40 and 100 Gbps wire-speed interfaces if and when they’re wanted. The routers additionally present a wealthy set of high-performance Layer 2/3, IPv4, IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), wire-speed encryption, and SDN options. MPLS is being utilized by SJTU to section the spine into digital networks that accommodate totally different software streams, together with campus CCTV and the YiKaTong good card entry system that beforehand ran on bodily separate networks.
“Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of the pinnacles of higher education in China and is extremely strong in IT-related fields, so were naturally proud that it has reaffirmed its confidence in Brocades technology by deploying Brocade MLXe routers to support its next-generation backbone,” stated Eric Yu, vp for Greater China, Brocade. “The university has a great deal of interest in SDN, both from an administrative and academic perspective, and were expecting to see a lot of SDN-enabled innovation come out of there in the next few years.”
The BROCADE MLX SERIES permits SDN by supporting the OpenFlow 1.3 protocol that enables communication between an OpenFlow-enabled router and an OpenFlow SDN controller such because the Brocade SDN Controller, which is predicated on the LINUX FOUNDATIONS OPENDAYLIGHT PROJECT. The Brocade gadgets help OpenFlow Hybrid Port Mode, which permits SJTU to concurrently deploy conventional routing with OpenFlow on the identical port. This distinctive functionality supplies a practical path to SDN by supporting the mixing of OpenFlow into present networks, enabling programmatic management supplied by SDN for particular flows whereas the remaining visitors is routed as earlier than.
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