e-Learning at New York Law School: Continuous with Radware LinkProof

• 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件

• 教育

• 商业运营

• 远程协作
• 远程控制

• 系统集成

New York Law School (NYLS), one of the oldest and most respected institutions in the United States, needed to ensure Internet connectivity to its highly demanding community of 1500 students and faculty in order to provide them the best possible Quality of Experience (QoE) in accessing their e-Learning application, web servers and hosted student email service. Network disruptions and connection failures were the reason that New York Law School became interested in implementing Radware's LinkProof solution. The School's course management system (Blackboard) is hosted and when the single link failed in the past, students could not see the teacher and the teacher could not teach. There was also a need for more robust Data Center infrastructure to allow for more hosting and future bandwidth growth. The School wanted more flexibility in negotiating with service providers to achieve lower costs and higher SLA commitments.

Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the School’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The School is noted for its eight academic centers: Center on Business Law & Policy, Center on Financial Services Law, Center for International Law, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center for Real Estate Studies, Institute for Information Law & Policy, and Justice Action Center. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1,500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program and its four advanced degree programs in financial services law, real estate, tax, and mental disability law studies.

NYLS chose Radware's LinkProof to load balance both inbound and outbound Internet traffic. By deploying two LinkProofs, the School guarantees that its e-learning system is continuously up and available, even if one of the links fails. The solution also guarantees 24*7 uptime for its web servers and hosted student email services. In addition, the current configuration allows for hosting of new applications in the future, as the need arises. NYLS has deployed two LinkProof 50 devices in active-standby configuration, along with active-active link configuration. This upgrades their Data Center connectivity solution from a single WAN link to multiple WAN links for high availability WAN links with transparent link switching. Radware's LinkProof multi-WAN load balancer allows the School to divert network traffic issues by circumventing network bottlenecks that are often caused by service-provider outages, or a mismanagement of users' bandwidth consumption. Additionally, LinkProof adds an 'on demand' feature, which plays a key role in allowing the School's IT administrators to add, manage and load balance multiple Internet service provider connections, in response to growing student, faculty and administration bandwidth needs.

• All members of the NYLS community and campus have benefited from improved connectivity.
• The School's IT department reports higher customer satisfaction and upgraded Data Center infrastructure for future growth, along with increased network security.
• More than two years after deploying LinkProof, New York Law School has significantly reduced its management overhead and has been able to streamline the configuration of its network protocols for further cost savings.