The document discusses how Extreme Networks products like BYOD/Mobile IAM, NAC, NetSight, Purview, and IdentiFi can help higher education institutions address issues like hiring and retaining qualified IT staff, optimizing technology use in teaching and learning, developing sustainable IT funding models, improving student outcomes, demonstrating the business value of IT, increasing the IT organization's capacity for managing change, providing user support in new environments, developing an adaptable enterprise architecture, creating mobile/cloud/digital security policies, and balancing security and openness. The products provide analytics, flexible network management, a rock-solid learning environment, and optimal balance between tight security and flexibility.

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2. Hiring and retaining
qualified staff, and
updating the knowledge
and skills of existing
technology staff
BYOD/Mobile IAM,
NAC, NetSight, and
Purview improve
the overall user
experience for the
technology staff.
Extreme Networks
makes it easier for
the staff to manage
the network, which
helps retain staff.
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3. Optimizing the use
of technology in
teaching and learning
in collaboration with
academic leadership,
including understanding
the appropriate level of
technology to use
Purview provides
direct feedback
on technology
usage and success;
tracks who is using
what application
when. IdentiFi
wireless network
infrastructure
provides a rock-
solid digital learning
environment.
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4. Developing IT funding
models that sustain
core service, support
innovation, and facilitate
growth
Extreme Networks
provides a high-
productivity,
low-operating
expense network
infrastructure that
maximizes the
return on your
budget.
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5. Purview analytics
and Mobile IAM
make it easier
to individualize
education and
better understand
and learn from the
patterns of the top
students.
Improving student
outcomes through an
institutional approach
that strategically
leverages technology
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6. Demonstrating the
business value of
information technology
and how technology
and the IT organization
can help the institution
achieve its goals
Involves IT
communicating
with the rest of
the organization.
Purview provides
the basis for
IT dashboards
connecting the use
of technology to
student outcomes.
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7. Increasing the IT
organization’s capacity
for managing change,
despite differing
community needs,
priorities, and abilities
Extreme Networks
offers flexible
network control
allowing the
organization to
manage access on
the network based
on parameters
including user,
device type,
location, and time
of day, rather than
simple ON/OFF
policy for all.
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8. Providing user support
in the new normal —
mobile, online education,
cloud, and BYOD
environments
IdentiFi Wireless
with NetSight,
Mobile IAM, and
Purview provide the
means to securely
manage device
proliferation for high
density wireless
connectivity.
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9. Developing an
enterprise IT
architecture that can
respond to changing
conditions and new
opportunities
Extreme Networks
builds on the
OneFabric
architecture, which
provides a unified
vision across the
entire wired and
wireless network.
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10. Developing mobile,
cloud, and digital
security policies that
work for most of the
institutional community
Mobile IAM with
NetSight provides
flexible policy
management that
integrates with
LDAP and Active
Directory.
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11. Balancing agility,
openness, and security
Mobile IAM,
Purview, and SDN
integration with
firewalls provide
ideal balance
between tight
security and
verification. With
the flexibility to
easily implement a
range of policies to
fit divergent needs.
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12. http://www.extremenetworks.com/higher-education
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