Established in 2004, Cyprus University of Technology was created to fulfill a unique role for undergraduate and post-graduate students in the region. It was designed to offer degrees not available from the University of Cyprus or other higher education institutions, in the fields of engineering and technology, communication and media studies, geotechnical sciences, and many more.
Based in Limassol, the second largest city in Cyprus, the university consists of six faculties and a Language Center. It has no central campus but extends across 45 buildings throughout the city center. Technology plays a key role in bringing these disparate sites together.
This decentralized approach makes it challenging for the university's small IT team to connect and manage technology at multiple sites. When its technology was nearing end of life, the university turned to Logicom Solutions and its partner Cisco to help it plan and deploy the technology it needed to give students, faculty, and staff secure access to the services they need.
The Cisco CX team played a key role in providing a custom-designed solution to meet the university's requirements. Working closely with Logicom Solutions Ltd engineers, the team assisted the university in developing and articulating its requirements and building a technology solution to meet its requirements.
At the heart of the solution is a Cisco network infrastructure, featuring Cisco Catalyst switching solutions that provide connectivity to the university's fiber backbone. Cisco Meraki wireless access points provide cloud-managed support for connectivity to students and faculty, regardless of location.
Security is essential to the solution, because the university retains a large volume of private information about students and employees.
To provide the secure, granular access control the university required, Cisco and Logicom Solutions Ltd recommended Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). Cisco ISE now offers a dynamic, automated approach to policy enforcement, enabling IT to know who, what, where, and how endpoints and devices are connecting.
Cisco ISE works hand in hand with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) next-generation firewalls, which provide advanced threat protection before, during, and after attacks.
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