A K-12 school system in eastern Pennsylvania had hired Plurilock to upgrade their core network infrastructure. They had chosen Juniper Networks to replace their aging Cisco solution, aiming to improve redundancy and throughput with 10Gb and 40Gb connections across their 9 school buildings and primary datacenter.
THE Challenge
Challenge
The K-12 school system needed to replace their Cisco network with Juniper Networks equipment, but lacked the expertise and primary IT person who managed the previous infrastructure. Limited network documentation added to the complexity. The deployment had to occur during maintenance windows with minimal downtime.
Results
Reviewed existing Cisco network
Documented existing network, including rack layouts, Visio diagrams, and IP schemas
Designed spine-and-leaf datacenter architecture with BGP overlay and OSPF underlay
Designed highly redundant core with 2 x 10Gb lags to each aggregation switch
Built out entire switching environment in Plurilock’s lab
Supplied team of engineers to implement and install switches during spring break
Implemented core and datacenter environments over weekend break
Solutions
Results
Deployment of a highly redundant solution in both core and aggregation layers, with increased throughput to meet district’s needs
Modern spine-and-leaf architecture implemented in datacenter in preparation for future redundant datacenter building goal
Complete documentation of the entire network environment Plurilock managed the entire project from initial design to completion and support, providing one point of contact for the duration of the project
Plurilock managed the entire project from initial design to completion and support, providing one point of contact for the duration of the project
