NGN Network Standard - Designed to improve stability, resiliency, and maintainability

December 8, 2022

The newly released Campus Network Infrastructure and Overlay Fabric Standard sets down the core design principles, design patterns, and shared practices of the Next Generation Network (NGN). This modernization effort ensures reliable and secure data transmission essential to current and future faculty research, particularly in the growing areas of science and engineering. The foundational security model supports faculty research practices from open collaboration with low-risk data to secure investigation using strong protection of high-risk data.

“This standard is the refinement of the initial network design to one that best serves Yale’s needs,” says Dan Massameno, ITS Director of Network & Cloud Architecture. Improvements based on real-world implementation experience are now documented in the new standard to ensure success with ongoing maintenance and expansion.

NGN has transformed the physical network from multiple networks into a single platform for data transmission. Physical modernization improves resiliency and performance. Virtualization through the overlay fabric advances security, configurability, and maintainability. It empowers the service team to virtually partition the network to meet the unique requirements of specific University capabilities.

This modern approach, documented in the network standard, simplifies the physical network and delivers many operational advantages through virtualization. “It will improve stability, resiliency, and maintainability,” says Tim Sheets, the ITS Director of Network Services. We can all agree this is a big win for IT service delivery.

Check out the Campus Network Infrastructure and Overlay Fabric Standard and other IT Architecture Standards that support high-quality service delivery.

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