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Solution detailsCase study — Networking
A campus network that survives 9,000 devices at 9 a.m.
Eleven buildings, 6,400 students and a network that fell over every morning. A fibre backbone, 214 Wi-Fi 6 access points and a single controller replaced fourteen years of accumulated switches — and the helpdesk stopped being a Wi-Fi helpdesk.
- Customer
- Thar Institute of Technology
- Location
- Jodhpur, Rajasthan
- Practice
- Networking
Customer overview
Customer
Thar Institute of Technology
Before
Challenges they faced
What was holding the business back when they came to us.
One flat broadcast domain across eleven buildings; a single loop took down the campus.
No documentation of the physical plant — copper runs of unknown length and age.
Wireless coverage from 60 consumer-grade access points on overlapping channels.
Examination halls needed guaranteed connectivity for online assessment windows.
Hostel traffic and academic traffic shared the same path and the same policy.
Cabling had to be pulled during a live academic term, without cancelling classes.
What we did
The solution we provided
How we answered those challenges, in short.
A three-tier design: a redundant 10G fibre core in the administration block, per-building distribution switches on OM4 fibre, and PoE+ access switches feeding Wi-Fi 6 access points. Traffic is segmented by class — academic, hostel, administration, guest, IoT and CCTV — so a hostel torrent cannot touch an examination hall. A network management platform discovers the topology continuously, which is how the campus finally got its map.
- Ruckus Wi-Fi 6
- Motadata NMS
- Digisol switching
- CommScope fibre
Delivery
How it was implemented
The phases the rollout actually ran through.
Phase 2
Fibre backbone
OM4 fibre trenched and blown between the eleven buildings, with a second diverse path to the academic blocks that carry the examination halls.
Phase 5
Monitoring and handover
Topology discovery, port-level alerting and a set of dashboards the institute’s own team drives, with escalation into CREADENT for anything structural.
Phase 4
Wireless roll-out
214 Wi-Fi 6 access points mounted and tuned, with automatic channel and power planning from a single controller.
Phase 3
Segmentation and switching
Distribution and access switches staged and configured off site, then swapped in building by building during evening windows.
Phase 1
Survey and predictive design
Physical survey of every building plus a predictive RF model per floor, validated against live spectrum measurements in the two worst-served hostels.
Delivered
Solutions procured from us
What this customer runs on today.
Network Solutions
Structured cabling, switching, routing and campus Wi-Fi designed to survive growth.
Solution detailsNetwork Management
Monitoring, alerting and change control so faults are found before users call.
Solution detailsAfter
Business impact
What changed once the solution was live.
91%Fewer Wi-Fi tickets
9000+Peak concurrent devices
214Wi-Fi 6 access points
11Buildings on one fabric
Online assessments run without a contingency plan for the network falling over.
The five-person IT team spends its time on projects rather than chasing loops.
Hostel traffic can be shaped without touching academic policy.
Adding the next building is a documented, costed exercise instead of an improvisation.
Guest and event Wi-Fi can be issued in minutes without opening the academic network.
Insurance and accreditation reviews are answered from the monitoring platform.
A note from the customer
For years the honest answer to "is the Wi-Fi down?" was "probably". Now we get an alert naming the switch and the port before a student has finished typing the complaint.
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A campus network that survives 9,000 devices at 9 a.m.
Eleven buildings, 6,400 students and a network that fell over every morning. A fibre backbone, 214 Wi-Fi 6 access points and a single controller replaced fourteen years of accumulated switches — and the helpdesk stopped being a Wi-Fi helpdesk.
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