St. Petersburg College was founded in 1927, as a private, non-profit community college in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. St. Petersburg College wanted transition from legacy ATM technology to Gigabit Ethernet for greater capacity and flexibility. The challenge was to assure high reliability and availability for data, voice, and video applications and deploy state-of-the-art networking technology in new building for teaching information technology courses and providing IT services to county agencies. The company deployed Cisco Metro Ethernet solution, including Cisco Catalyst 3550 Metro switches and Cisco IP Communications solution, including Cisco Call Manager, Cisco VG248 voice gateway, and Cisco Unity Unified Messaging.
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