Campus Network Solution

With the development and application of new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, and mobile Internet, the information construction in higher education is currently undergoing a transition from traditional campuses to digital campuses. Apart from basic requirements of traditional campus networks, such as sufficient bandwidth resources and comprehensive wired and wireless coverage, there are also high demands for flexible service expansion, convenient user authorization, IoT automation control, and intelligent operation and maintenance in the creation of a ubiquitous digital campus network

Challenges in Traditional Campus Networks

Highlights of H3C's Higher Education Campus Network Solution:

1. Unified Management for Multiple Campuses and Services

H3C provides intelligent adaptive networking solutions for school businesses, simplifying campus network management:

1） One Network for All Services

One physical network supports various university services, such as teaching, research, administration, finance, and accommodation, achieved through the use of slice technology.

2） Unified Management for Multiple Campuses

Interconnecting the core networks of multiple campuses, H3C enables centralized control through an SDN controller for the egress network

2. Unified User Experiences, Convenient Cross-campus Work and Teaching

Based on SDN and VXLAN technologies, H3C's solution allows for the easy creation of customized virtual networks for different services, such as dedicated virtual networks for office use, teaching, and campus card services. This decouples network functionality from physical locations, enabling faculty and students to access the network from anywhere using the same IP address. The corresponding network segment access rights, authentication, and billing policies can dynamically follow the location changes. This solves network issues caused by campus relocations and personnel movements, and reduces the workload for network administration.

3. Automated Identification and Control of Dumb Terminals

H3C's Higher Education Campus Network Solution enables access control for different service subnets, allowing only approved dumb terminals like IP phones, cameras, and digital electric meters to connect to the network. With a reliable automated sorting engine, it proactively identifies terminal vendors, models, operating systems, and versions. Terminals are automatically categorized and isolated based on predefined rules upon network access.

After admission, relevant information such as IP, MAC address, device vendor, access location, and last online time is displayed, facilitating easy management for teachers and greatly reducing terminal security risks.

Dumb Terminals Lifecycle Management

4. Intelligent Network Operation and Optimization

H3C AD-Campus offers rich AI-based state and anomaly detection, including authentication process, DHCP process, gateway connectivity, DNS server connectivity, web browsing experience, etc. It presents historical network status and tracks exceptional events, enabling quick restoration of fault scenarios. Real-time optimization of network service quality is achieved from the perspectives of network operation, faculty and students’ connectivity experience, and application service quality.

Reference Cases

Shandong University's Qingdao campus encountered numerous challenges during the digital transformation of campus network:

1) As the number of services increases, network operations and maintenance become more complex.

2) A large number of new devices onboarding, insufficient maintenance personnel

3) Massive dumb-terminals and IoT devices, difficult to control

By utilizing the H3C Higher Education Campus Network Solution, the Qingdao campus has established a secure, flexible, and intelligent campus network， which ensures the secure and stable service operations as well as the swift deployment of new services. Furthermore, through the H3C intelligent network operation solution, the Qingdao campus has successfully achieved "easy configuration, simplified management, and streamlined maintenance" network operation