Citizens of the City of Casselberry Depend on High-Performance Brocade Network Infrastructure
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 20, 2010 - Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that the City of Casselberry, Fla., recently completed a comprehensive network infrastructure upgrade, replacing its legacy Cisco network with Brocade. The City of Casselberry selected Brocade because of Brocade solutions’ proven reliability and lower total cost of ownership, when compared to others. The new Brocade infrastructure enables the city to reliably develop, deploy and maintain a variety of advance services, including IP-based emergency response services and public works communications. It also provides the future-readiness to protect the City’s investments while supporting anticipated capacity and user number growth as well as emerging technologies.
As one of the fastest growing areas of Greater Orlando, the City of Casselberry needed to completely upgrade its network , as the The city’s existing Cisco infrastructure could not scale to meet its widely varied requirements. The city needed an extremely stable and reliable network that municipal operations could depend on to support mission-critical and life-saving operations.
Brocade FastIron SX 800 switches now sit at the core of the network, connecting 13 locations through a wide area network (WAN). The City of Casselberry operates a fiber-optic network that traverses its territory with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) loops. The FastIron SX Series gives the city a scalable, secure, low-latency and fault-tolerant infrastructure for cost-effective deployment of Voice over IP (VoIP), wireless and high-capacity data services.
Public works, police, fire and other departments in Casselberry depend on the network for wired and wireless communications, asset tracking and status reporting. The collection of service-specific networks previously required to enable all of these services has now been almost completely converged onto IP, simplifying application deployment, management and maintenance.
For example, because the City of Casselberry’s water plants are unstaffed overnight, the city needed to be confident that their systems could support remote notifications—a strict federal requirement. The Brocade solution was able to provide the city’s networking team with the reliability to support remote notification and non-stop network operations.
“Reliability was the driving factor in our decision to go with Brocade,” said Chris Corvaia, network manager for the City of Casselberry. “We needed the assurance that our network delivered the reliability the police and fire departments depend on to provide the services our community relies on. Brocade was able to give us more.”
“Brocade had a better offering for us. We realized that Brocade solutions had superior functionality and provided a faster response time for us on the network than Cisco’s equipment. It became clear at that point that Brocade was the ideal choice,” said Corvaia.
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