University of Granada Uses Cisco Technology to Accelerate Teaching and Investigative Capacity

Cisco CSCO +0.24% has announced that the University of Granada (Spain) has renovated its network infrastructure with the Cisco Catalyst(R) 6500 Series Switches. The upgrade incorporates higher-capacity processors and 40 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet connectivity cards in order to establish aggregated links and obtain a connection to the 160 Gbps nucleus of the network backbone. The university thus becomes the first academic organisation in the world to reach this capacity using Cisco Catalyst switches.

Thanks to this capacity — up to 16 times as great as that of most other Spanish universities — the University of Granada’s researchers, students and personnel are able to access the teaching and research resources at maximum speed, making it easier for researchers to work uninterruptedly with centres located within and outside Spain. Offering new services with high bandwidth consumption but minimum latency, the network has been designed to take into account the requirements of high availability, fault tolerance and highly secure access to data, greatly optimizing reaction to contingencies.

The University of Granada comprises 70 buildings spread over eight campuses (five in Granada, one in Ceuta, another in Melilla and one virtual wireless one) interconnected by 2,000 kilometres of its own fibre optic cable. With approximately 85,000 users consisting of students and personnel, it is the third biggest university in Spain and the first to locate the network at the centre of its new development; in 2005 it had already migrated to ATM connectivity with 10 Gbps links, again based on Cisco Catalyst switches, and was the first Spanish university with wireless coverage for all its campuses.

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