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CCAT Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s reputation and reasonably-priced, customized solution met CCAT’s interoperability and feature requirements.

Country: United States Of America
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Founded in 2004 and headquartered in East Hartford, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 公司. (CCAT) is a nonprofit organization that advances innovation in IT strategies, 应用技术, 能源解决方案, career development and STEM education.

CCAT delivers a full-range of enterprise-grade IT services including co-location, 举办, and applications services (VoIP, video) to hundreds of municipalities, 学校, 公共图书馆, 政府机构, 和非营利组织.

CCAT appreciated the guidance received from the Alcatel-Lucent presales engineers who helped to design the solution.

这个解决方案很有效. It ticked all the right boxes for us: performance, reliability, simplicity and price. Our job is to deliver high-quality, dependable IT services that improve operations for our customers. And the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solution is doing just that. We’re very satisfied with the results.

Dan Salazar, Director of IT, CCAT

Challenges

CCAT wanted an interoperable enterprise-class infrastructure to provide services, including Voice Over IP (VoIP), 举办 and video streaming to 26 towns using Connecticut’s high-speed fiber optic Nutmeg Network.
As CCAT enables important services and functions, 比如警察派遣, it required a robust and redundant solution and disaster recovery to ensure business continuity.
As a nonprofit, CCAT needed a budget-conscious solution without compromising on quality.

Results

技术的好处

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN Switch solution provides storage convergence through Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) thanks to support for lossless Ethernet.
The solution is highly available due to the virtual chassis and a rapid failover to the alternate data center.
Future growth can be accommodated by extending the virtual chassis with very high capacity switches.

经济利益

The solution requires very little maintenance, enabling CCAT to focus manpower and financial resources on its primary mission: offering IT services at the best possible price.

用户体验优势

The towns have access to enterprise-grade, reliable IT services and backups at unbeatable cost.
Disaster recovery is included, giving users peace of mind.