Launching “Classrooms Without Walls,” with Aruba Mobile-First Network
USE CASE:启用“无墙教室”倡议for introducing virtualized, hybrid learning to expand enrollment, boost retention and support a vibrant on-campus community while saving approximately $600,000 in licensing costs.
将传统机构转变为以混合学习模型和无边界教室为特征的卓越中心，要求Tonjia Coverdale博士的IT团队超越动员体验。
“部署基础设施以与我们的竞争对手相匹配是不够的，” IT副总裁和CIO位于俄亥俄州威尔伯福斯的1,700名学生中央州立大学的Covedale说。“作为一个相对较小的公共机构，我们需要采取量子用户体验的飞跃，并以预算进行。”
强大的基础设施和投资保护
Historically a residential university, Central State officials envisioned delivering a next-gen on-campus experience while also pivoting to establish and grow an interactive distance program. However, the university’s existing limited wireless and legacy wired systems weren’t up to the task.
Coverdale说：“由于我们获得了一次性的州赠款来创建一个智能校园，因此采用提供大量投资保护的解决方案至关重要。”“这意味着我们不仅需要今天的成本效益，可靠和安全的网络，而且还需要满足明天需求的灵活性和可扩展性。”
By collaborating closely with strategic local partnerLaketec, a holistic wireless and wired solution from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, was selected and deployed.
添加阿鲁巴的基础护理further protected Central State's investment by ensuring full access to direct technical support, on-demand software updates and upgrades and flexible hardware replacement options to choose from.
增强校园用户体验
With our investment-protected network enabling our “Classrooms Without Walls” initiative, we can help more students stay on course and achieve their degrees whether they’re on campus or not. As an educator, that’s very exciting.Dr. Tonjia Coverdale,中央州立大学的IT和CIO副校长
In addition to distance and hybrid learning options, Central State also placed a premium on supporting its vibrant on-campus community. This put superior residence hall experiences at the top of Central State’s priority list.
“About 70 percent of our on-campus students depend on us for their academic and leisure requirements around the clock,” Coverdale says. “As today’s students expect mobility, high-performance residence hall Wi-Fi is a competitive imperative.”
“From a business perspective, we also needed our residence hall wireless infrastructure to support campus safety while simultaneously staying within our budget,” she adds.
具有303h aps的成本效益的未来证明
Given the multiple demands, Aruba’s 303H access points proved the right fit. “Because the 303H units only require one networking cable, we gained high-performance 802.11ac Wave 2 connectivity at half the cabling cost,” Coverdale says.
“Additionally, each of the 303H APs contains additional Ethernet ports that support our long-term IoT and location-based services goals,” she continues. “For example, we’re evaluating the addition of temperature sensors to provide this generation of environmentally sensitive students with app-enabled HVAC control capabilities to adjust their room temperature wirelessly, rather than wasting energy when they’re away.”
Easy, seamless device sharing and IoT management with ClearPass
For data security, Central State’s ClearPass deployment is enabling seamless self-service sharing experiences as well as protecting student, faculty and staff devices.
Coverdale说：“我们不仅提供了支持门户网站的平稳登机，而且用户还可以选择彼此安全共享其设备。”无论是授予无线打印机访问室友还是允许Xbox与校园中的其他人进行交流，用户都设置了共享偏好。
“Soon, ClearPass will unify our wireless and wired network access,” adds Coverdale. “This will take us to access management level by enabling us to control IoT and other device connections centrally, which will expand the capabilities we can offer for academic, research and leisure pursuits while also minimizing operational overhead.”
使学生更安全
Beyond supplying exceptional academic and leisure experiences, the new infrastructure also empowers campus security officers. Now, they can access wired security cameras from their wireless devices due to Aruba’s 300-series indoor and outdoor APs supplying pervasive high-performance mobility across all campus spaces.
Coverdale说：“在到达现场之前，校园警察对校园内事件没有可见性。”“能够快速从移动设备上的任何相机访问视频供稿的能力将显着改善事件识别和响应。”
Scalable wired networking at hundreds of thousands in savings
采用Aruba的模块化3810开关提供了进一步的前景。这些开关立即提供了高级部署功能，并在五年内将节省多达60万美元的许可，这要归功于Aruba的校园切换“无需执照”。
According to Central State’s managed service provider (MSP), Laketec, an advantage to the 3810’s is the ability to aggregate multiple switch models to create a ‘core’ architecture in some buildings while deploying other models at the edge while gaining the same innovative features and functionality across all of the units no matter how they are deployed.
Further, the 3810’s redundant capabilities, enable a sophisticated failover redundancy for greater resiliency and keeping the network always available.
Quadrupling capacity for a third of original investment
Aruba转换创新的另一个重要好处是模块化。通过简单地交换中央状态需要更多带宽的模块，该机构可以修改现有的3810，从当前的10GBPS跳到40Gbps，而无需购买和部署新的开关。
换句话说，中央状态可以在整个占地面积上四倍的带宽，仅占叉车升级的三分之一，这相当于估计的50万美元。
Expanding enrollment and boosting retention
借助其新的基础设施，中央州已转向实施其“没有墙壁的教室”学术转型。Coverdale说：“我们的高性能网络可以实时虚拟学习，教授和学生可以与物理教室相同的丰富度进行互动。”
“A significant component will be implementing a video conferencing solution to connect our campus with users via their personal computing devices of choice such as desktop, laptop, tablet, or even their smartphones,” she continues. “Students and faculty on campus will be able to collaborate with students and faculty in real time wherever they are and even on-demand. This level of collaboration is only possible because of the investment that we have made in such a high-quality network.”
由于其新网络在当今的利用率仅为30-40％，因此中央州的基础设施已准备好满足这种不断发展的需求。Coverdale说：“我们设想有能力呈指数级扩大我们可以入学和支持的学生人数。”
Helping students overcome obstacles to achieve success
更重要的是，中央州期望提高保留率和入学率。Coverdale说：“我们的传统和非传统学生越来越面临外部力量，例如家庭或工作要求，这禁止他们全职在校园里。”“过去，这些学生倾向于停止他们的教育过程。”
“Now, with our new network and “Classrooms Without Walls,” we can help students complete their studies whether they’re on campus or not,” she explains. “As an educator, that’s very exciting.”
