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Providing an Engaged Learning Experience Any Time, Anywhere

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Overview The Dubai Men's College Company wanted to enable one of the Middle East's leading educational institutions to offer next-generation services to staff and students across a fully converged, secure network that would support its current range of elearning initiatives and provide scalability for future requirements. Four Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches 8600 (formerly known as Passport 8600) were installed to provide the college with the secure, resilient and fully converged network it wanted. This allows for current networking needs to be accommodated, as well as giving scope to expand in the future.

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Publisher	Nortel Networks	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Ethernet, Switching

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