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SPECTRUM Integrity Manages TeraGrid Connection, Others At Purdue

Aprisma Management Technologies Inc, a Gores Technology Group Company, announced that Purdue University has deployed Aprisma's SPECTRUM Integrity to manage its campus-wide network. Supporting more than 69,000 students system-wide, 38,500 main campus students and 5,000 faculty and staff, SPECTRUM is the primary fault isolation and reporting platform for Purdue University's nearly 2,800 networked devices. Wide area network connections at speeds up to 10 Gb per second link the university's regional campuses with commodity Internet, Internet2, TeraGrid and Purdue's main campus initiative known as "BoilerNet," using Cisco and Juniper routers. Academic classrooms and residence halls contain more than 1,000 wireless devices.

"SPECTRUM's fault isolation and root cause analysis technology have proven to be valuable tools," declared Gary Stair, manager of network operations. "Since deploying SPECTRUM, we have been able to take a proactive step to driving stability, responsiveness, and uptime of university IT services. Growth projections, asset utilization reports, response time analysis, and service quality trending from SPECTRUM are helping us exceed our users' expectations. This kind of technology helps position Purdue as a recognized leader in the engineering and technical sciences fields."

SPECTRUM's OneClick graphical interface delivers one convenient view to the university's network operations center (NOC). NOC technicians can view application servers, network topology, devices and alarms at a glance. Purdue's NOC plans to incorporate Aprisma's integration with the Remedy Action Request System (ARS) to automate escalation procedures and enable prioritized responses based on impacted services, applications, departments or users.

"We count on SPECTRUM to support our network operations," Stair explained. "We conducted a year-long extensive analysis of leading vendors, and concluded that Aprisma and SPECTRUM deliver the viability, scalability, innovation, and breadth of supported vendors and technologies that we were seeking."