Organization Background
Based in Silicon Valley, this well-known firewall/VPN solutions provider has
an enormous worldwide presence with offices stretching from Europe to the
South Pacific. This company sells its products directly and through domestic
and international VARs, OEMs and other distributors. The corporate headquarters
was relocating and expanding into a larger campus. They needed a new switching
infrastructure that would support hundreds of connections, gigabit Ethernet
speeds, provide fault tolerance and wire speed routing.
Problems
Relocate and modernize corporate headquarters
network
Provide gigabit infrastructure for testing
and development labs
Segment all corporate divisions into different
VLANS
Technology Utilized
Extreme Networks Summit 48 switches
Extreme Networks BlackDiamond switches
Netscreen firewalls
Cisco routers
Solution
Redundant internet backbone
Distributed VLANS
Gigabit test tab isolated from corporate network
Gigabit interconnects to each department
Redundant default gateways
OSPF routing
Result
Highly redundant
Fault tolerant
High speed infrastructure for test lab and
corporate network
