Secure Networking for Higher Education
Extend university life from the physical campus to the virtual world
Can your university meet the needs of today’s anywhere, anytime students?
Higher education has gone digital. Students now expect access to lectures, labs, services, and other resources 24×7, across campus and around the world. To position your institution as a digital leader, you’ve got to deliver secure networking and high-quality experiences at scale—or risk being seen as old-school.
Staying Relevant to Modern Higher Education
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive disruption to educational systems globally and was a wakeup call to modernize how students learn and access resources. For university IT, this meant making a fundamental shift from on-campus networking to supporting a distributed network across the globe.
Legacy school infrastructure is failing to make the grade
IP Connectivity
As more devices flood the campus, from students and faculty to visiting college sports fans, IPv4 exhaustion has become an urgent crisis
Application Availability
From remote learning to digital life, students demand better connected experiences
Surging Cyber Threats
As DDoS attacks and ransomware proliferate, universities are typically poorly defended—and frequently targeted
Extend University Expertise
The digital transformation of higher education is expanding opportunities for students on campus and around the world. By upgrading networks to support more connections and traffic, providing secure networking and compliance, and maintaining availability wherever and however students connect, universities can help build a foundation for success for their institution and students alike.
Ensuring Capacity
at Scale
- Large-scale remote access has redefined the requirements for university networking
- IP address pools must be augmented as connections and traffic increase
- Cost-effective IPv6 migration will be essential to ensure business continuity and support growth
Protecting Data, Applications, and Students
- Security investments must take higher priority as DDoS attacks and ransomware rise
- TLS/SSL encryption and TLS/SSL inspection are needed to ensure student privacy and regulatory compliance
- Automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and threat intelligence will help universities protect their expanding attack surface
Delivering More While Spending Less
- As technology costs rise, universities must optimize spending to keep tuition affordable
- Procurement is only the beginning—to control operating costs, IT should prioritize simplicity, integration, and manageability
- A well-managed technology roadmap will help universities meet their requirements within their budget over time
Enabling a Modern Digital Institution
- Today’s students demand broader, more flexible opportunities for on-campus, on-demand, and remote learning
- As on-campus enrollment declines, remote and overseas learning programs open new revenue opportunities for universities
- By offering a full range of online services, from medical facilities to research to entertainment, banking, and retail, universities can compete more effectively
“A10 went above and beyond to provide York University with scalable network infrastructure that not only handles the dramatic increase in demand, but also met our budget requirements. All-inclusive licensing and quick implementation made A10’s solution the optimal choice for us.”
Eriks Rugelis
Manager, UIT Network Development, York University
Meeting the needs of students, faculty, and staff—on-campus and on-demand
More than just a convenience, connectivity has become a mainstay of daily life for students and a baseline competitive requirement for universities. For university information technology teams, this means making a fundamental shift from on-campus networking to supporting a distributed network across the globe.
Critical Core Network Solutions for Higher Education
Thunder Carrier Grade Networking (CGN)
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Carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) - IPv4 to IPv6 migration
- Advanced logging features
- Global management and analytics
- Tier 1 market-proven technology
Thunder Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
- Advanced server load balancing & Global server load balancing
- Multi-tenant software
- Any cloud deployment
- Application performance acceleration
- Web and DNS protection
Thunder Threat Protection System (TPS)
- DDoS attack detection and mitigation
- Zero Day automated protection
- Management and analytics
- DDoS theat intelligence
- Tier 1 market-proven technology
Thunder TLS/SSL inspection (SSLi)
- Full network traffic visibility and traffic steering
- Data loss prevention
- Full-proxy control
- Compliance and security
- Analytics & management
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