Project objective
Design, install and support a university campus network that ensures students and staff are secure, whilst allowing visibility and scalability as demands for growth change with more students likely to be onboarded year on year. The network should not allow any unauthenticated users, needed to incorporate the Eduroam platform and could provide secure site-to-site VPN tunnels to third party vendors as part of day to day operations
Cisco Meraki & Identity Services Engine
The solution provided was based on a full-stack Cisco Meraki solution alongside a an on-premise Cisco ISE server and two HyperV services for Active Directory, Eduroam and Door control services in a HA deployment.
The core infrastructure switches utilised a stack-technology, with access switch providing end user LAN connectivity. Access policies on LAN ports were authenticated via an ISE policy using Microsoft Active Directory for staff authentication. Wireless authentication was done through Cisco ISE for staff and student authentications using group policies with access-lists to secure access.
The internet edge was secured with a MX HA deployment with site-to-site VPNs to MS Azure and other third parties.
Cameras were deployed inside and outside of the communications room with sensors deployed inside the comms room for temperate, door and water abnormalities
Why Re-solution?
- Highly skilled and qualified engineers with a proven track record
- Experienced Cisco and Cisco Meraki partner specialising in Network and Security Services
- Customer success and delivering business outcomes
- No job too small approach with all customers
- Competitive professional and managed services offerings
THE RESULTS
The network is highly secure and scalable, every single network connection is authenticated. IPS and URL filtering is enabled on the Firewall appliance. Automated Alerts are enabled ensuring that the Re-solution support team can act proactively. Weekly network reports are sent highlighting network performance. All tickets are dealt with in a timely manner with change requests going through a customer approval process
99.999%
Network Uptime
100%
Customer Satisfaction
<1%
SLA Breaches
Re-solution – The Partner for us.
“TEDI-London partners with multiple vendors to support the campus environment on a day-to-day basis. Our relationship with Re-solution has only been a positive one.
They are experts in what they do and allow us to focus on dayto-day activities rather than worry about the performance or security of the network. When problems do arise, they always engage and respond swiftly.
I would highly recommend Re-solution as a support partner”
Sandi Leonties
Head of Technology
TEDI-London
