© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1 “Having a single point of management for Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders through the Cisco Nexus 5000 enabled us to manage twice the number of devices with the same size team.” – Dennis Crowe, Director of Network Engineering Apollo Group • Higher education • 21,777employees • +40,000 students • 200 campuses • Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona • Founded in 1973 • Cisco data center customer since 2010 • Theater: Americas CUSTOMER STATS CHALLENGE • Ensure high availability of learning and business applications • Enhance student experience by replacing faulty switches • Meet future student demand with modular and scalable architecture WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS • Cisco Nexus platform provides 10 GigE connectivity needed to virtualize • Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders minimize management points • vPC feature of Nexus switches eliminate Spanning Tree BENEFITS • Doubled network size without increasing staff • Lowered per-port switch costs while increasing ports • Delivered excellent student experience even during peak times CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT • Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches • Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches • Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders • Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform • Three data centers