H3C Campus Network Solution for Vocational Education

Challenges of campus network for vocational education

1. Popularization of the wireless campus network

The wireless network has become the basic facility for the informationization construction of vocational education. The fact that a single user has multiple terminals and the popularity of IPv6 construction bring increasing pressure on the table entries of the traditional Layer 3 gateway and wireless controller gateway. Moreover, the authentication and roaming experience under multi-vendor wireless construction needs to be improved.

2. Demands of fine-grained user management

The explosive growth of Internet access traffic has brought great pressure on the egress bandwidth. The problem cannot be solved by only increasing the egress bandwidth. A more accurate control policy is required for the speed limit billing.

3. Challenges of IoT client management

Water meters, electricity meters, printers, all-purpose cards, video cameras, and other dumb terminals cannot be dynamically authenticated through 1x or portal. Calling machines and self-service terminals cannot be dynamically authenticated despite their intelligent systems. The authentication-free method is not secure, and the binding of IP and MAC addresses needs a great workload.

4. Demands for flexible scheduling of IT resources

The basic informationization construction of vocational education has been completed, but the systems of educational administration, student work, office, finance, and other applications are hosted in the equipment room of the information center. The data center needs to be reconstructed with the driving forces of services and technologies.

H3C campus network solution for vocational education

1. H3C BRAS campus network solution

The BRAS wired and wireless integration solution can implement the unified access authentication management of campus network users and simplify the application of networking. In addition, the solution can provide multiple user access authentication methods and support multiple access methods. The flat campus network has drawn on the experience of similar scenarios of operators and brought in the BRAS device as the core product of the solution. This solves the three major problems of insufficient table entries, rough management, and complicated O&M. This solution is an ideal solution for the campus network transformation and construction project for vocational education.

2. Campus cloud data center

The H3C UIS Hyper-Converged all-in-one product is H3C’s next-generation cloud data center infrastructure for vocational education. It is pre-installed with the industry-leading UIS Hyper-Converged 6.5 software and integrates computing, storage, network, security, O&M and monitoring, and cloud platform to achieve out-of-the-box. A cloud computing environment can be built in 30 minutes with a simplified hardware architecture platform consisting of only servers and switches and a software-defined data center (SDDC) resource pool. Physical hardware and virtualized computing, storage, and network resources can be monitored and managed in a unified manner, so that services can be quickly and flexibly deployed and managed through a simple interface, greatly reducing TCO. This makes UIS an outstanding cloud computing infrastructure platform for vocational education.

3. Cloudnet solution

The Cloudnet platform is a cloud network platform that provides free use for vocational education, which solves the problem that the private network management system is too expensive and complicated. It is ready to use upon login without installation. The Cloudnet platform has managed hundreds of thousands of network devices so far.

Cloudnet is a cloud management enterprise network solution based on the Cloudnet platform that uniformly manages the wireless and wired products of the vocational education network. It can solve the pain points of the construction and O&M of the vocational education campus network through the cloud-based network architecture.

Solution highlights

• Large table entries, good authentication experience, various authentication billing features, and fine-grained management of dumb terminals.

• Convergence with simplicity, high security, six one-click operations, simplified application, unique split-brain prevention mechanism, and stable services.

• Simple deployment and no configuration for launch, minimalist O&M and deprofessionalization management, open API, and value-added application

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