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Arizona State Savings & Credit Union: Bank of the Future Exists Today

Overview Arizona State Savings & Credit Union (AZSTCU) has 117,000 members, 330 employees, and $880 million in assets. AZSTCU faced multiple challenges. AZSTCU needed a strong foundation: a fully converged end-to-end network that would also allow employees to do a better job of serving members. AZSTCU implemented a Catalyst 6509 LAN switch, along with two 6608 blades enabling voice over the public switched telephone network with Cisco 7206 routers, the most widely deployed router for enterprises, provide a wide range of connectivity options.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2005	Downloads	305
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Network Design, Switching

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