City of Milwaukee Optimize Critical Services with Agile and Resilient Network
Cities rely on resilient networks to support essential services and keep operations running smoothly. This customer story highlights how the City of Milwaukee strengthened mission-critical connectivity and simplified network management using Extreme Fabric Connect. Read the story to see how the city improved resilience and enabled faster deployment of network services across its infrastructure.
What network challenges did the City of Milwaukee face?
The City of Milwaukee needed to unify existing packet and circuit-switched networks into a single environment to reduce complexity and convergence times. They also aimed to enhance network resiliency, reduce provisioning time and effort, and streamline network configuration and management.
How has Extreme Networks impacted the city's IT infrastructure?
Since becoming Extreme Networks' first Fabric Connect customer in 2011, the City of Milwaukee has expanded its network without needing to add additional IT resources. The simplicity of Extreme's Fabric Connect technology has allowed for enhanced mission-critical services, improved security for emergency services, and the ability to quickly extend network connectivity for urgent needs, such as COVID-19 test sites.
What benefits has the city experienced from the new network?
The city has seen increased operational efficiency, as the simplified network allows for growth and expansion of services without additional resources. Hyper-segmentation keeps network traffic separated for various local agencies, optimizing service delivery and security. Additionally, major incidents like fiber cuts have become non-issues, ensuring consistent connectivity and network services.
City of Milwaukee Optimize Critical Services with Agile and Resilient Network
published by Aavex Technology Corporation
Aavex Technology Corporation has been a leading Managed Security and Service Provider since 2002.
Business First • Security Focused• Effortless IT
We take a business first, security focused approach to providing our IT services. Aavex Technology Corporation specializes in wide range of services, including tailored IT services, hardware procurement, Cloud migration services, employee on-boarding and off-boarding checklists, network and IT infrastructure monitoring, Voice over IP and solutions for small and medium businesses and their owners in the Chicagoland area. We are committed to providing each one of our clients the highest level of quality service and support. Our unique IT team is incredibly friendly and can help you every step of the way in growing your business.
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Our approach uses our expertise to assess your IT infrastructure as it relates to your data assets and compares it to standards and processes, we have in place. Our standards will produce recommendations that result in a stable environment. The outcome is data assets that are kept confidential, unchanged, and available to your organization when you need it. Our helpdesk and on-site services will deliver the excellent support when you need it.
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