阿鲁巴Gigabit Wi-Fi scales to enable a half-million simultaneous connections for school & community
箴viding mobility connectivity throughout 15 million square feet of facilities makes enterprise Wi-Fi a top priority for Frankie Jackson.
“有近114,000名学生和14,000多名员工，我们正朝着数百万个设备连接迈进，”休斯顿的柏树 - 费尔班克斯独立学区的首席技术官杰克逊解释说。“我们还需要有效的工具来管理整个87个校园的移动设备，连接和基础设施，再加上未来五年的另外7个，遍布大约238平方英里。”
使50万同时带来您自己的技术（BYOT）连接
As the third largest district in Texas, and 22nd-largest nationally, Cypress-Fairbanks required a Wi-Fi system capable of securely supporting a BYOT environment and scaling to a half-million simultaneous connections daily.
与其本地合作伙伴第3层合作，赛普拉斯 - 费尔银行选择了一家惠普企业公司Aruba，以取代其现有的WLAN。
杰克逊说：“要有效地使学生成为21世纪全球领导者，我们需要无线基础设施，这些基础设施提供了与有线网络相同的经验。”“阿鲁巴满足了我们的所有要求。”
Aruba的802.11ac Wlan满足了需求
The benefits of Aruba’s technology are vital to our BYOT initiative’s success. I believe the Aruba solution will meet the demands of our students, teachers and administrators not only today but in the years to come.
Frankie Jackson,CTO of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
For its educational needs, and to gain the TCO benefits critical to public schools, Cypress-Fairbanks elected to deploy an IEEE 802.11ac-enabled wireless infrastructure, known as Gigabit Wi-Fi.
该实施大约包括7800阿鲁巴室内访问点（APS）和近400户外AP，由7200 Series Mobility Controllers.
为了管理其广泛的网络，该机构采用了Aruba的强大管理工具阿鲁巴空波, for proactively monitoring WLAN health and performance, along withAruba Clearpass，用于强大的安全性和智能策略管理。
The deployment is eligible for电子率扩大学校Wi-Fi网络的资金。
非常高密度的部署处理设备的增殖
To accommodate expected device proliferation, Cypress-Fairbanks is pursuing a high-density Wi-Fi strategy. Level 3 is carefully mapping and deploying infrastructure to ensure seamless transitions throughout each school’s campus and smoothly handle peak demands, such as during online testing.
The institution’s WLAN will also cover an events complex called the Richard E. Berry Educational Support Center. This facility, which includes a 15,000 sq. ft. conference center, not only serves numerous educational functions but is also an important district revenue source that generates over $2 million annually.
To remain attractive as a large public venue, facilities like the Berry Center require the very high-density (VHD) Wi-Fi design and deployment strategy Aruba technologies provide. This ensures thousands of event attendees can connect simultaneously at the desired level of Wi-Fi performance.
Aruba Clearpass支持移动性和物联网安全要求
By adoptingClearPass Policy Management, organizations like Cypress-Fairbanks receive the robust security features necessary for today’s BYOT environments. This includes ultra-scalable AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) with RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service), allowing IT to assert and enforce trust on every user and device on the wireless, wired and VPN network.
To do this, ClearPass leverages real-time, trusted, contextual data – a user’s role inside an organization, device and app attributes, plus location and insight from third party security solutions – to create policies that satisfy mobility and IoT (Internet of Things) security needs.
杰克逊说：“因为我们正在转向BYOT模型，因此将数十万个设备连接的安全性集中到了至关重要的。”“ Aruba的ClearPass技术的好处对我们的设备计划的成功非常有吸引力，并且至关重要。”
智能政策管理可确保无麻烦的访问
该地区高度重视ClearPass的智能政策管理，该管理自动化外部客人连接与内部教育流量的分离。
杰克逊说：“目前，我们有一项计划正在进行室外和室内APS，为父母和社区成员以及学生和老师提供Wi-Fi访问权限。”“借助ClearPass，此客人流量与教学访问隔离，确保了安全的学习环境，并使我们能够优先考虑带宽以进行教育。”
此外，ClearPass可以自动，连续地将已知设备从访客网络转移到内部网络。杰克逊说：“在上学期间，将学生设备移至内部网络，可确保其设备得到我们内容过滤应用程序的适当保护和保护。”
Aruba Airwave可以主动优化
Organizations with massive Wi-Fi systems like Cypress-Fairbanks need granular visibility into the access layer — at the user, device, and app level — to keep things running smoothly and without disruptions to teaching, learning and community events.
这就是地区部署的原因空波. This tool enables lean IT staffs to minimize overhead by visualizing every AP from a centralized dashboard to monitor device behavior, troubleshoot application issues proactively and plan for capacity to meet new needs.
What’s more, AirWave can be used as a predictive tool, to simulate situations such as a flurry of device connections at the start of the school day, enabling IT staff to head off problems before they occur.
学校和社区享受许多好处
Today, Cypress-Fairbanks and the surrounding community are enjoying the multiple benefits of a resilient, reliable Aruba WLAN.
Wi-Fi boosts school spirit
Jackson cites school spirit as just one example of how the district is leveraging its new Wi-Fi. “Using ClearPass, the portal for each one of our high schools is branded with their school colors and logo,” Jackson says. “This gives 3,500 to 4,000 students a sense of pride every time they log on.”
基础设施为所有人提供安全的访问
After school hours and on weekends, any community member can use the district’s visitor access in a secured environment says Jackson.
她说：“ ClearPass管理无线流量，以区分不同类型的用户（无论是访问者，学生和管理员），并将其引导到适当的访问级别。”
区10 x连接增加经验
总体而言，柏树 - 班克斯岛的教学显着增强，自部署开始以来，与教育有关的移动连接飙升了约10倍。
Enabling traditional, virtual and blended instruction
As Cypress-Fairbanks continues building out its Wi-Fi to enable traditional, virtual and blended instruction models, teachers like Alexandra Gonzales say mobility improves their efficiency and effectiveness.
“Mobility is a tremendous benefit,” explains the high school Algebra teacher and volleyball coach, whose work sites are at opposite corners of a 460,000 sq. ft. high school building. “The ability to work on classroom-related activities anywhere ensures I can maximize the time I spend teaching students.”
移动性有助于个性化学习的创造力和授权
According to Jackson, next-generation mobility is ensuring Cypress-Fairbanks can adopt leading educational practices to prepare students for success. “Our Aruba Wi-Fi is helping us reach our goal to personalize learning with rich multimedia experiences that enables empowerment and creativity,” she says.
