John Chambers was fond of these types of contracts and was fond of saying, "Councils and Governments".
He used to get governments to buy Cisco Routers...
And then Switches..
And then Services...
And then Wireless...
And then Security...
And VPN...
And WebEx...
And on and on, ad nauseam.
BOY OBOY was John the BEST.
I guess those days are over?
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/aruba-bumps-cisco-from-the-pentagon/2020/10/
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Aruba Bumps Cisco From the Pentagon
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Tobias Mann | Editor
10 hours ago
Aruba Networks swept the last remaining vestiges of Cisco’s switching gear from the Pentagon building as part of a Department of Defence modernization effort announced today.
The deal will see Aruba deploy its Edge Services Platform (ESP) architecture to automate the network, eliminating time consuming and often tedious processes such as port mapping and initial switch configuration. Aruba ESP is targeted at campuses, data centers, branches, and remote workers, but it only supports Aruba’s access points (APs), switches, and SD-WAN gateways.
The vendor’s Access Switches will replace existing Cisco switching gear that has reached end of life. The deployment will include more than 150,000 wired ports, distributed across the 6.5 million-square-foot facility. Alongside wired infrastructure, the DoD plans to deploy 3,000 additional Aruba APs to further extend wireless access throughout the campus.
While Aruba ESP can be operated in the cloud, on-site, or as a managed service through one of Aruba’s partners, the DoD will be using Aruba’s ClearPass Policy Manager to orchestrate the networking overhaul. Initially the platform will be used to manage Aruba’s switches to secure access controls across the network. However, Aruba notes that the DoD could extend these controls to its APs, unifying both wired and wireless networks.