
Universidad de Extremadura
The Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solution was the perfect answer for the University’s needs. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise could combine the same equipment for both data center and network.
- Country: Spain
- Industry: Education
- Solution: Data Center
Universidad de Extremadura is a public university founded in 1973. The university consists of 19 centers organized across 4 campuses.
It has approximately 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students, with a further 8,000 students taking PhD courses, specific degrees or continuous improvement courses.
It employs 1,900 teachers and more than 1,000 administrative, technical and services staff.

Challenges
- To install a network based on simplicity, resiliency and automated management, that would provide improved user experience across its 4 campuses.
- To provide storage and virtualization backup between the campuses of Badajoz and Caceres.
- To improve the daily activities of all people on campus.
Results
Technical benefits
- Universidad de Extremadura now has storage replication between 2 campuses that are 100 kilometers apart.
- The University has enhanced visibility and control over virtual machines.
- The ability to split user and data center traffic between campuses, using Shortest Path Bridging (SPB).
Financial benefits
- Important cost savings have been made because the solution consolidates the data and storage infrastructure by using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology.
End user
- Students have better remote access to the resources around the campus, improving their learning environment.
- The students, faculty and employees are provided with better access to storage and applications.
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Universidad de Extremadura's Success Story
This short case study describes how Universidad de Extremadura has made important cost savings thanks to data and storage consolidation.