3 Campuses, 10,000+ Ports, One Unified Network View
A multi-campus European university with 18,000 students and a 6-person network team replaced fragmented per-building management with ConnectMyAssets, cutting troubleshooting time in half and eliminating configuration blind spots across all 3 campuses.
The Challenge
Three campuses growing independently, thousands of personal devices, and a small team drowning in VLAN complexity.
Sprawling Multi-Campus Networks
3 campuses with 32 buildings, each historically managed by different teams with no shared naming conventions or documentation. The main campus alone had 6,200 switch ports, nobody knew how many were active, reserved, or misconfigured.
BYOD at Scale
18,000 students and 3,200 staff connecting personal laptops, phones, and tablets daily. Peak registration periods saw 25,000+ concurrent devices. Without reliable endpoint counting or segmentation validation, capacity planning was guesswork.
Education-Constrained Budget
A 6-person network team managing 10,000+ ports with a tooling budget under EUR 40,000/year. Enterprise NMS solutions quoted EUR 150,000+ annually, forcing the team to rely on free-tier tools, CLI scripts, and manual spreadsheet tracking.
VLAN Sprawl & Conflicts
200+ VLANs with overlapping IP ranges between campuses. Each new lab, classroom, or research group required hours of manual subnet research. Misconfigurations caused 3 outages per semester on average, disrupting lectures and exams.
The Solution
A platform that gives a small team enterprise-grade visibility without an enterprise-grade price tag.
Cross-Campus Device Inventory
CMDB auto-discovery scanned all 32 buildings across 3 campuses and identified 920+ network devices, including 74 previously undocumented switches and APs. Every device is tagged with building, floor, and VLAN assignment.
Unified IP & VLAN Management
IPAM provides a live view of every subnet and VLAN across all campuses with conflict detection. New room provisioning uses pre-validated IP blocks, the team eliminated all VLAN overlap issues within the first month.
Per-Building Topology Maps
Auto-generated topology maps per building and per campus show uplink paths, redundancy gaps, and inter-campus links. The team spots bottlenecks visually instead of tracing cables, cutting troubleshooting time in half.
Complete Configuration Backup
Automated daily backups cover every device across all campuses with version history and diff comparison. When a misconfigured core switch caused a campus-wide outage during finals, the team restored the correct config in 90 seconds.
Results & Impact
Network ports managed
Reduction in troubleshooting time
Configuration backup coverage
Campuses unified in a single platform
Key Platform Features Used
CMDB
Auto-discovery across 32 buildings with location tagging, firmware tracking, and VLAN assignment.
IPAM
Live subnet and VLAN management with conflict detection for multi-campus environments.
Topology Mapping
Per-building and campus-wide network maps with uplink visualization and redundancy analysis.
Configuration Backup
Daily automated backups with version history and sub-2-minute rollback for rapid incident recovery.
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