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Impact Challenges Why Cisco? Solution Customer Stats

William Paterson University

• Industry: Education

• Students: 11,500

• Faculty/Staff: 1,150

• Location: Wayne, NJ

• Five colleges include Arts and Communication, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, and the Cotsakos College of Business.

• Founded in 1855.

• Facilitates secure manual registration by users if not 802.1X compliant.

• Eliminates server crashes, for 100 percent uptime.

• Reduces staff troubleshooting time by 10 percent.

• Streamlines security policy-setting, enabling complex rules to be grouped together in sets due to design improvements.

• Allows policy rules to be easily upgraded.

• Unable to define policy re how 802.1X-compatible and non-compatible devices accessed network due to design limitation, increasing network risk.

• Had issues with profiling that would cause server crashes when enabled.

• Experienced influx of wireless devices brought on campus by students, faculty, and staff, requiring secure network access and increasing load, complexity, and staff support needed.

• Transitioned to Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 1.2 to facilitate consistent, secure wireless network access by students bringing range of devices on campus, broadening reach of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy.

• Cisco ISE 1.2 Cisco NAC

• Cisco AnyConnect®

• Cisco ASA 5585 Firewalls with Cisco IPS SSP 10 Sensors

• Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers 5500

“With the converged Cisco solution, we can now centralize monitoring and management for all our resources and provide better support and services to users without increasing IT staff.” — Brian C. Young, Infrastructure Manager, Adena Health System

“Our goal is to get as

many people on our network as quick ly,

securely, and reliably as

possible without our

involvement. ISE 1.2 enables us to do that.” -- Rob Tavoularis, Netw ork

Administrator, William

Paterson University