Scottish Police College Secures World Class Law Enforcement Training Network with Enterasys
The Scottish Police College provides about 75 percent of all law enforcement training in the country, including specialist training for detectives and traffic officers. All of Scotland’s current 14,500 police officers are graduates of the College and an estimated 1,500 new police recruits will enter the College’s prestigious program in the coming year.
With an IT staff composed of two part-time employees, the Scottish Police College recognized the need to maintain a modern, secure network that would scale with the diverse uses and requirements of the increasing number of students, faculty and guests, while keeping management requirements uncomplicated. The College also required a solution that would be affordable and fall within the constraints of their public sector budget and provide interoperability with existing vendor equipment, including Nokia Check Point firewalls.
The students and faculty required an always-available connection to help with their research, studying and communications, while the staff required constant network security. To fulfill both needs, the Scottish Police College looked to Enterasys’ easy-to-use NetSight® management platform to optimize network service quality for the College’s network consisting of 400 networked devices on its campus grounds (spread across 75 acres), while improving the institution’s data reliability and security for its more than 800 on-campus students, faculty and staff, as well as for the recently launched distance learning program.
“Enterasys gives us the reliability and proactive protection we require, with a simple and intuitive at-a-glance status snapshot that allows our small team to have granular visibility and control over who and what is on the network,” said Derek Scott, head of the IT department at the Scottish Police College. “Our network is transparent to our users—all they know is, they plug in and it works. Enterasys has the built-in security, cost-effectiveness, ease of management, reliability and performance qualities that public sector organizations like ours need to succeed.”
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