Launching “Classrooms Without Walls,” with Aruba Mobile-First Network
USE CASE:启用“没有墙的教室”主动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.
将传统机构转化为卓越中心，其特点是混合学习模型和无边框教室，需要吨家秘密博士的IT团队，超越动员经验。
“部署基础设施与我们的竞争对手相匹配是不够的，”IT和Cio副总裁Condendale表示，在俄亥俄州威尔伯尔斯威尔伯尔施加尔斯1,700名学生中央州立大学。“作为一个相对小的公共机构，我们需要采取Quantum用户体验的飞跃并在预算上进行。”
具有投资保护的强大基础设施
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.
“正如我们收到一次性州的拨款资金，以创建智能校园，采用提供重大投资保护的解决方案至关重要，”秘密代尔说。“这意味着我们不仅需要为今天提供具有成本效益，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.
添加阿鲁巴的基金会护理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.
增强校园内的用户体验
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IT与CIO的副总裁
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的经济高效的未来打样
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.
“我们不仅提供顺畅的门户网站，而且用户也可以选择彼此安全地分享他们的设备，”Coverdale说。无论是授予无线打印机对室友的访问，还是允许Xbox与校园内的其他人通信，用户都设置了他们的共享首选项。
“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.”
让学生更安全
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.
“之前，校园警察在抵达现场之前没有能见于校园事件，”封面代尔说。“从移动设备上的任何相机快速访问视频源的能力将显着提高事件识别和响应。”
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未来打样。交换机立即提供了高级部署功能，并在许可的五年内节省高达600,000美元，感谢Aruba的校园切换“无许可证”。
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
阿鲁巴岛switchi的另一个重大好处ng innovation is modularity. By simply swapping modules when Central State needs more bandwidth, the institution can modify existing 3810’s to jump from the current 10Gbps to 40Gbps – without purchasing and deploying new switches.
换句话说，中央状态可以以叉车升级的仅三分之一的成本在整个占地面积中四分之一的带宽，这相当于估计的半百万美元。
Expanding enrollment and boosting retention
凭借其新的基础设施，中央州已转向实施其“没有墙的教室”学术转型。“我们的高性能网络能够实时虚拟学习，教授和学生可以与身体教室中的同样的丰富性相互作用，”覆盖尔代尔说。
“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.”
由于其新网络仅在今天的利用率为30-40％，因此中央州的基础设施准备符合此类不断发展的需求。“我们设想具有指数展示我们可以注册和支持的学生人数的能力，”Coverdale表示。
Helping students overcome obstacles to achieve success
更重要的是，中央州预计促进保留和预留率。“我们的传统和非传统学生越来越多地面临外部力量，例如家庭或工作要求，禁止他们全职校园，”覆盖尔代尔说。“在过去，这些学生往往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.”
