阿鲁巴Wi-Fi solution mobilizes 10M sq. ft. and supports IoT at one of America's largest higher-ed institutions.

对社交媒体的增强Wi-Fi投诉和帮助台的雪崩召开召开遗留无线大修对Brice圣经的主要关注点。幸运的是，它还取代了他的同事名单。

“我们的新领导地位承认了对大学大学（UB），国家旗舰大学的副总裁兼首席信息官圣经纽约大学（Suny）制度和该国最大的高等教育机构。

评估高密度，高度可用的选项

我们的Aruba千兆Wi-Fi，具有清晰度，空洞和即将到来的创新，简化了我们的复杂环境，同时提供了强大的，高可用的网络，我们需要满足今天和明天的客户期望。J. Brice Bible.那Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University at Buffalo – SUNY

To meet the 24/7 demands of 30,000 students spread across three campuses comprised of more than 1,200 acres with 150 buildings totaling 10 million square feet, UB sought a robust, scalable and secure Wi-Fi solution flexible enough to meet rapidly changing demands.

"As a member of our faculty stated, 'Wi-Fi is as important to a university today as ink or chalk was 100 years ago'," says Bible. "We needed a solution that could evolve to meet new curriculum developments, satisfy student life expectations and enable everyone to connect with multiple devices."

After an extensive proof of concept phase, the University selected a comprehensive Aruba solution. "We evaluated Wi-Fi as three separate components," says Bible. "This included wireless architecture, meaning access points (APs) and controllers, network management and, for security, network access control. Aruba stood out in all three."

阿鲁巴: Best Price for Performance Value

In all, UB is deploying approximately 6000Aruba 802.11ac Wave 1和Wave 2 AP，阿鲁巴的7000系列移动控制器那阿鲁巴航空对于网络管理，与Claritymodule, and阿鲁巴清除用于政策管理和客人访问权限。

“我们选择了Aruba解决方案，因为它们为绩效价值提供了更高的价格，并且产品组合包括千兆Wi-Fi接入点，专门为居留大厅/招待所应用而设计，”Jerry Bucklaew，网络架构师用UB信息技术解释。

“对于政策管理，清除通道是在部署和配置方面最灵活的，”他补充道。

ClearPass统一和Streamlines Security

According to Bible, ClearPass was key to UB's selection of Aruba as it enabled two guest connectivity initiatives.

"Of course we're using ClearPass Guest to create a guest's active account," he says. "More importantly, we're also using it as a way to automatically drive individuals to register all of their personal devices, which then reside on the Guest side of the access house."

除了客户之外，ClearPass策略管理器提供见解和分析功能以及安全设备身份验证，圣经添加。

By replacing outdated legacy AAA with context-aware policies, ClearPass enables organizations like UB to achieve differentiated device access on their wireless and wired networks, as well as streamlining guest connectivity.

Profiler自动注册成千上万的设备

Another feature the University leverages is the ClearPass Universal Profiler, available built-in or standalone, which collects real-time data including device categories, vendors, and OS versions for wireless, wired and IoT devices.

At UB, the built-in Profiler is helping automate the University's move to require registration and authentication of every networked device. "Our two biggest types of devices are APs and IP phones on our wired network," says Bucklaew. "We've 6,000 of the former and 10,000 of the latter."

“通过探查器来确定设备是否是AP或电话，可以实时应用相应的策略，”他继续。“它避免单独注册16,000个设备。”

"As we expect IoT devices on our network to increase," Bucklaew adds "this capability will become even more useful. It's a big win for us."

Airwave，创新管道完成解决方案

For network performance and availability, UB also appreciates AirWave. "AirWave does an excellent job of presenting information," says Bucklaew. "It gives us the reporting and troubleshooting capabilities we need."

Additionally, the university is excited about Aruba's forthcoming introductions related to incorporating artificial intelligence and the Rasa Networks acquisition. Such innovations will enable integrating big data predictive analytics to assist with adaptively and proactively managing networks for even greater resiliency and IT efficiency.

“我们在收购前看了RASA，”圣经说。“在我们的大，非常复杂的环境中，我们不控制大多数客户设备，因此我们在技术中看到了一个很大的潜在价值，并期待Aruba的介绍。”

立即奖励

Bible says the university is already seeing significant results from the new network. "When we first deployed wireless in 2000, it was one of those nice-to-have things," he says. "Wi-Fi was cool, but if it didn't work, it wasn't a big deal.

“现在，预期已经转移，无论客户的位置，应用程序或类型的客户，每个人都认为无线关键，”圣经补充说。“它必须增加100％的时间，没有例外。”

“例如,在线和混合学习模式strategically important for our institution," he continues. "Videos and recorded lecture utilization is growing exponentially. This makes reliable, high performance Wi-Fi in the residences as critical as classroom connectivity."

满意度呈上升趋势

在部署之前，即结束的部署，Wi-Fi连接成为学生，教师和管理员最抱怨的物品，圣经说。

Today, based on student surveys, residence halls equipped with the new Wi-Fi infrastructure have seen a 21% increase in satisfaction, compared to those still on the legacy network.

"We're seeing utilization through the roof and complaints declining rapidly," Bible says.

它的效率改善了

这是一个类似的故事。尽管大致翻了一番，但大大加倍大学的AP密度，释放管理资源以获得更多关键任务，Aruba的解决方案正在降低复杂性。

“与阿鲁巴和透明通道，我们已经将我们的SSID从五到六到三到三到三，”Bucklaew说。“我们的最终目标是802.1x，另一方面是一个。”

今天和明天的创新

Looking ahead, Bible expects UB's Aruba infrastructure to enable expanded Wi-Fi capabilities, like mobile engagement for location-based services, such as wayfinding.

He also foresees the University extending coverage to outdoor areas, fine-tuning their use of ClearPass on the wired network to bring it in line with the wireless side, and facilitate increased adoption of IoT.

“通过我们的新Wi-Fi，我们大大提高了我们更好地满足其学生，教师和管理员的流动期望的能力，同时为未来准备大学，”圣经说。