Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering wanted to build a communications network equal to the college's ambition to educate a new breed of engineering students by emphasizing an interactive curriculum, interdisciplinary design, entrepreneurship, creativity and advanced communications skills. This network was to be created from a blank slate, deployed to greet Olin's inaugural class and to grow as the college continued to elaborate its mission. A converged, end-to-end IP network, serving the entire campus and well beyond. Olin College has deployed Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches (formerly known as Passport Multiservice Switches), the Communications Server 1000 (formerly known as Succession 1000), the Multimedia Communication Server 5100 and a Nortel VPN Router solution (formerly known as Contivity VPN).
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