Campus networks develop quickly and are carrying more diversified services. As smart mobile terminals are popularized in campuses, users need to access campus networks during moving and wireless data traffic increases rapidly. Cloud computing development requires real-time service monitoring and service virtualization. Campus networks also need to carry high definition (HD) video services and social networking services (SNSs). These service requirements are challenging current network deployment. To meet these challenges, Huawei introduces the agility concept to campus networks based on the software-defined networking (SDN) architecture. Huawei agile campus network solutions help build high-performance core networks and highly efficient wireless access networks and enable networks to be more agile for services.
On agile networks, flexible and fast agile switches replace traditional switches. For example, administrators can flexibly and fast configure, manage, and maintain devices. They do not need to modify configurations for devices one by one to change a service or take a long time to locate a network fault. Users can flexibly and fast access an agile network and enjoy the same network experience at any locations using any access mode.
An agile campus network for a university is taken as an example in the following sections to describe how agile networks improve the network services for campus users.