Infrastructure Achievements
CMHS infrastructure upgrade
As per United Arab Emirates University’s plan to continue with infrastructure upgrades in phases keeping in view the advancement in networking technology and the introduction of features such as internet of things (IoT), 4th generation access protocols, cloud applications, we have completed the upgradation of College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS). CMHS is the first and highest ranked medical school in the United Arab Emirates comprising of research labs, simulation training centers, evaluation & assessment centers as well as a large number of classrooms. This upgrade enables the infrastructure to meet the exorbitant bandwidth demands and to satisfy the requirement for ever-present internet connectivity providing a switching backhaul of 40 Gbps, highly resilient, non-blocking state-of-the-art infrastructure. The upshot of this change would be a higher bandwidth for the end user by reducing the bandwidth contention ratio and oversubscription on the uplink.
For the campus, Catalyst 9500 40 Gbps switch form the distribution layer while the Multi-gigabit Catalyst-9300 constitutes the access layer. The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is the first 100/40-Gbps switch purpose built for the enterprise campus. It was recently recognized as CRN's 2017 Overall Network Product of the Year. Designed for security, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the cloud, Catalyst 9500 fixed-core switches are high-density building blocks for a next-generation, intent-based network.
Similarly, The Cisco Catalyst-9300 Series is the next generation of enterprise-class stackable Ethernet and Multigigabit Ethernet access and aggregation layer switches that provide support for un-encrypted traffic analysis. Cisco’s new Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) powers the switch and enables uniform wired-wireless policy enforcement, application visibility, flexibility and application.
We have also migrated the CMHS IP telephony infrastructure from legacy Avaya system to our centralized Cisco IP telephony setup. We have hence managed to integrate Avaya IP phone users with the rest of UAE University’s IP phone users in terms of direct extension calling, Voicemail, Cisco Jabber softphone, image provisioning, etc.
We have installed Cisco 8841 high end IP phone models in CMHS providing rich features to end users.
