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NEC secures five-year data deal with University of New England |
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UNE win marks largest NSW data deal for NEC
Release Date : Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007
News Source : Will Clarke
Melbourne – NEC today announced it has secured its largest data deal in NSW by securing a multi-million dollar deal with the University of New England.
The five-year deal will see NEC working with vendors Enterasys, Fortinet and Barracuda, along with specialist security distributor WhiteGold Solutions, to provide the university with an integrated solution which comprises of a new and complete data infrastructure in the core and edge, the latest wireless technology, Internet security and email anti spam capabilities, as well as the latest carrier-grade firewall technology.
The deal with the university is the largest wireless deal for networking company Enterasys and the largest wireless roll out for NEC.
The solution will see NEC as the lead technology partner providing 24x7 support to the university through its Network Operations Centre, systems design, integration and professional services. Enterasys will supply the university’s network requirements, with Fortinet providing Internet security and firewall solutions and Barracuda the email anti-spam and anti-virus appliances.
The new solution will enable the university to identify rogue devices anywhere in the network and once identified, the device can be locked away in a secure VLAN with minimal network accessibility, removing the threat of network infections from these devices.
According to Gordon Smith, Principal IT officer at the university, NEC and its partners were chosen as the companies collectively provided a depth of product, experience and knowledge about the university’s various IT requirements. “NEC and Enterasys in particular worked closely with us to provide the best solution and product mix to meet our current and future needs,” said Smith.
NEC’s role-based approach to infrastructure management has a particular emphasis on ease-of-use for the administration of additions, moves and changes. The solution also allows for interoperability capabilities across the selected technologies, using standards based rather than proprietary protocols. It also allows the university to build multi-level anti spam detection via email.
NEC Executive General Manager, Business Solutions Group, National Sales and Marketing Rocco Arico says that the company delivered a best-practice approach with regard to technology. “One of the things that we did which led us to be chosen was the fact that we did not position ourselves as experts across technology fields but rather having an expert team with specific expertise in their respective areas, hence our strategic partnering with leading companies such as Enterasys and Whitegold,” said Arico.
As part of the solution, Enterasys will be providing the university with over 350 data switches and 300 access points across the campus.
“Our solution delivers Network Admission Control (NAC) to ensure only the right users have access to the right information from the right place at the right time. UNE is one of the first Australian universities to implement this type of technology that provides firewall-like visibility and control on every wired and wireless connection throughout the entire network,” said Enterasys’ sales director, John Gonzalez.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Will Clarke
NEC Australia Pty Ltd
Tel: +61 (0)3 9271 4172
Mob: + 61 400 676 244
Email: will.clarke@nec.com.au
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Red Agency
Tel: +61 (0)3 9670 8350
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Email: michelle.bong@redagency.com.au
About NEC Australia
A leader in the development of broadband and mobile communications technologies, NEC Australia’s expertise has propelled the company to the forefront of new era in communications. NEC Australia is a leading provider of end-to-end voice, data and video solutions for business and government. NEC Australia utilises its expertise in IP telephony, contact centres and managed services, and its strong partnerships with leading companies to provide innovative and affordable business solutions.
Through the provision of new technologies such as plasma displays, data projectors and high-speed broadband connections, NEC Australia continues to drive innovation into the office and the home. NEC Australia’s commitment to innovation and continued expansion into export markets remains unrivalled. NEC is home to Australia’s largest ICT Research and Development facility. As well as undertaking leading R&D in DSL technologies and 3G mobile terminals, NEC Australia’s broadband business, Nextep broadband delivers business grade DSL services for SMEs, corporates and governments. For more information about NEC Australia, visit our website at http://www.nec.com.au/.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialised needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. For additional information, please visit the NEC home page at: http://www.nec.com/
About the University of New England
The University of New England, located in northern NSW half way between Brisbane and Sydney, is Australia’s first regional university.
With over 50 years of achieving outstanding results in teaching, learning and research, UNE now teaches over 18,000 students by both on-campus and distance education. It has built an international standing in areas such as rural science, agricultural economics, educational administration, linguistics and archaeology. This standing is backed by the range of Cooperative Research Centres based on campus.
As Australia’s longest continual provider of distance education, teaching over 15,000 of its students by distance, UNE specialises in providing flexible learning options for students without compromising the teacher contact the university is famous for.
Students studying on campus have access to state-of-the-art facilities, easy access to staff, sporting facilities the envy of its city counterparts and one of the largest traditional residential college systems in the country.
This year’s Good Universities Guide ranks UNE as having the maximum five stars for: Teaching Quality, Graduate Satisfaction, Overall Graduate Rating, Entry Flexibility and Indigenous Participation.
About Enterasys Networks
Enterasys Networks—the Secure Networks Company—is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys’ unique Secure Networks solutions secure any network to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and performance of IT services and the business users that rely on them. Thousands of leading companies, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 70 countries rely on Secure Networks solutions to maintain business continuity and protect vital information. The company's culture is centered on the principle "There is nothing more important than our customers."
Delivering on that commitment, Secure Networks provides granular, policy-based command and control of individual user, application, device, port and flow performance, and security. Enterasys’ architectural approach to network security offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about Enterasys’ award-winning policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless products, security software, and services is available at http://www.enterasys.com/.
All company and brand names used in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners
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