Shanghai University Cloud Data Center Network Upgrade Solution

With the rapid development of information technology, universities' demands for data processing and storage in education, scientific research, and management are increasingly growing, including the sharing of educational resources, online and remote education, data sharing, and collaboration. Therefore, the construction of a cloud data center network has become an important measure for universities to enhance their level of informatization.

Customer Background

As the era of informatization arrives, the existing network of a certain university in Shanghai can no longer meet the needs of educational resource sharing, online and remote education, and the school's website defense system is weak. The school's website and other platforms are easily attacked by hackers and other malicious individuals, leading to serious consequences such as information leakage. Therefore, it is necessary to build a cloud data center for network upgrade.

Importance of Network Upgrade

• Enhancing Educational Resource Sharing: Building a cloud data center can centrally store and manage various resources, including electronic textbooks, courseware, teaching videos, etc. Students and teachers can access these resources anytime and anywhere, promoting personalized learning and innovation in teaching models.
• Promoting the Implementation of Remote Teaching: The construction of a cloud data center provides strong support for the online learning platform, allowing students to learn courses at any time through the platform, ensuring the learning progress and the quality and effectiveness of online education.
• Supporting the Development of Scientific Research: In the scientific research work of the school, a large amount of data processing and complex calculations are often required. The construction of a cloud data center network can provide researchers with high-performance data resources, improving their research and innovation capabilities.
• Promoting the Construction of an Intelligent Campus: With a cloud data center, it helps universities achieve intelligent management, including intelligent access control systems, campus card systems, intelligent monitoring systems, etc., enhancing the campus experience and sense of security for teachers and students.

Challenges Faced

• Complex Network Architecture Design: To build an efficient and reliable cloud data center network, it is necessary to consider the redundancy, scalability, and high availability of the network to ensure that the data center can support the growing needs, which requires a reasonable network architecture design to meet the above requirements.
• Network Compatibility and Integration: When building a cloud data center, the school needs to consider the existing information systems and application software, including compatibility and integration to ensure seamless connection between the cloud data center and technology and platforms.
• Data Security Issues: The school's data center stores a large amount of important information such as student information, scientific research data, and financial data. Once leaked, the consequences would be unimaginable. The construction of the cloud data center must adopt advanced encryption technology and access mechanisms to ensure its security.

Solution

In this university network construction, to meet the needs of horizontal business integration in the campus network, we have chosen the S10500X product as the core switch, which supports IRF2 (second-generation intelligent flexible architecture) technology, has good reliability, distribution, and easy management, and is a professional H3C product that supports 4-box virtualization of the core switch.

Additionally, we have adopted two devices for redundancy design in the network structure, which can fully ensure the reliability of the network. In terms of security, we have used H3C's F5000 series products for protection, which has leading business throughput and packet forwarding rate in the industry, and also has strong security protection functions.

In addition, this network construction includes security devices such as web behavior management, anti-DDoS, and traffic probes, which can greatly enhance the security of the network.

Product Recommendations

The preferred solution for the university in Shanghai to achieve network upgrade and local area network construction is as follows:

• Routers: SR6602-I *2 units
• Core Switches: S10508X * 2 units
• Export Firewalls: F5060 * 2 units
• Boundary Firewalls: F5000-AI-15 * 2 units
• Access Switches: S5130S-HI-G series * 30 units
• Wireless APs: WA6338-HI * 120 units
• DDoS Defense: SecPath AFC2000-G * 2 units
• Web Behavior Management: ACG1000-AK255 * 2 units

All the above products are selected from the H3C brand.

Product Name	Model	Product Picture	Quantity	Brand
Core Switch	S10508X		2	H3C
Router	SR6602-I		2	H3C
Export Firewall	F5060		2	H3C
Boundary Firewall	F5000-AI-15		2	H3C
Access Switch	S5130S-HI-G series		30	H3C
Wireless AP	WA6338-HI		120	H3C
DDoS Defense	SecPath AFC2000-G		2	H3C
Web Behavior Management	ACG1000-AK255		2	H3C

Project Highlights

The construction of a cloud data center network in universities is of great significance in enhancing the sharing of educational resources, promoting scientific and technological innovation, improving management efficiency, strengthening information security, and reducing operational costs. Through the construction of a cloud data center network, universities can better cope with the challenges of the information age, improve the level of education and scientific research, and promote their own sustainable development. The cloud data center network is not only the infrastructure of university informatization construction but also an important support for achieving modernization of education and scientific and technological innovation.