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.
Solution
- MS – Meraki Switches
- MR – Meraki Access Points
- MV – Meraki Cameras
- MT – Meraki Sensors
- Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- On Prem – Active Directory (AD)
- On Prem – Eduroam
The solution provided was based on a full-stack Cisco Meraki deployment alongside an on-premise Cisco ISE server and two HyperV services for Active Directory, Eduroam and Door control services in a highly availalable deployment.
Core 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 proved track record
- Dedicated Cisco and Cisco Meraki partner specialising in Network and Security services
- Customer experience driving excellence
- No job too small approach with all customers
- Competitive professional and managed services offerings
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.
- 99.97% Network Uptime
- 100% Customer Satisfaction
- <1% SLA Breaches
Feedback
“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 day- to-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 – Head of Technology