Normalized claim
Student access scale: 4,000 students
"can scale from 40 to over 4,000 students without impacting performance"
Alibaba Cloud CEN enables University of Auckland to improve access to online teaching systems
Use case typeAccessible learningUpdated Jan 1, 2022
During COVID-era travel restrictions, the University of Auckland needed to reengage international students and improve access to its online teaching portal for students remaining overseas. Alibaba Cloud worked with the university’s technical team to design and deploy a cloud-based network architecture using Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) to provide stable global connectivity, low latency, and flexible scaling for online learning.
- Organization
- University of Auckland
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- New Zealand
- Published
- January 2022
Reported outcomes
Student access scale: More than 4,000 students
Adoption & scale
Student access scale: More than 40 students
Strategic outcomes
Customer experience & trustImproved accessibility of online teaching systems for overseas studentsScale & capacityScaled online learning access without hurting performanceInnovation & cultureWon industry innovation awards
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Normalized claim
Student access scale: 40 students
"can scale from 40 to over 4,000 students without impacting performance"
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- University of Auckland
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- Alibaba Cloud Customers
Alibaba Cloud and the university’s technical team designed and deployed a cloud-based architecture centered on Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN)
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Accessible learning
- 2Network optimization
- Overseas students had reduced access to the university’s online teaching portal.
- The university needed a way to improve accessibility and latency for students studying remotely during travel restrictions.
- Alibaba Cloud and the university’s technical team designed and deployed a cloud-based architecture centered on Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN).
- The solution delivered hybrid and distributed global network connectivity while maintaining security protocols.
- The cloud-based approach avoided long lead times to deploy physical infrastructure and allowed the university to scale usage up and down as needed.
Technologies
- The university decreased latency and increased accessibility of its online teaching systems for students overseas.
- The network scaled from 40 to over 4,000 students without impacting performance.
- The university received the Supreme Award Trophy and Excellence in Technology Innovation at the 2022 New Zealand Tertiary ICT Awards.
Architecture
Alibaba Cloud and the University of Auckland designed and deployed a cloud-based architecture using Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) for hybrid and distributed global network connectivity, with security protocols maintained and scalable capacity for overseas students.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium65/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Jan 1, 2022Publisher: Alibaba CloudEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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