Aruba Instant + Aruba开关和Aruba Clearpass Supply简化了安全的Wi-Fi，可满足当前和未来的课堂需求。

Increasing mobility demands and looming online testing requirements were straining Scott Leppelman’s existing Wi-Fi. But upgrading didn’t seem to help.

“尽管我们开始与现有的供应商，Fortinent Meru进行升级，但我们经历了各种问题，”位于新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基北部的18,000名学生Rio Rancho公立学校的高级网络工程师Leppelman说。“我们决定寻求更强大的基础设施，这对我们来说始终如一。”

无控制器的Aruba解决方案被证明吸引人

为了实现BYOD的利用并追求1：1计算，Rio Rancho官员审查了Wi-Fi市场，包括Aruba，Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company，Cisco Meraki和Ruckus Wireless。

由于其新的WLAN将为该地区的21座学术和行政大楼提供遍布多平方英里，因此集中管理至关重要。在与Aruba的一次会议上，Rio Rancho了解了Aruba的即时控制器AP环境。

Leppelman回忆说：“尽管我们的无控制器方法对我们来说是新的，但它为我们的情况提供了一些明显的优势。”“此外，即时也可以将其配置为控制器管理，因此，如果我们的需求改变，我们可以轻松地进行过渡。”

阿鲁巴加入惠普赢了这一天

当里约兰乔（Rio Rancho）完成研究时，阿鲁巴（Aruba）和惠普（HP）宣布他们正在联合使用。这有助于达成交易。

“We’re an HP wired shop and use HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) to manage the wired side,” explains Leppelman. “We’ve looked at moving to Cisco, but there are no functionality benefits. Then, with the HP acquisition of Aruba, we knew the future would bring various cool integrations to help wired and wireless work together even more fluidly.”

Aruba Instant AP和Switch满足了无数需求

为了满足其各种需求，Rio Rancho选择部署普遍存在的企业Wi-Fi，由400多个室内802.11ac Aruba Instant AP组成，以简化，简化的WLAN。除了固定的AP外，环境还包括数十个安装式AP，以在测试期间提高Wi-Fi连接。

此外，这是2200个老师区投资于Aruba的网络管理工具Airwave，以优化Wi-Fi体验。

Adding Aruba AirWave to Instant streamlines administration

我们的Aruba解决方案效果很好，我们期待着通过产品线的集成来实现未来的功能。
Scott Leppelman,高级网络工程师,里约热内卢牧场公立学校

鉴于其超级IT员工，Rio Rancho赞赏Aruba Instant的零触摸，自我保护功能的简单性，通过添加Airwave增强了Airwave。

“Leveraging Instant’s built-in intelligence, along with AirWave’s robust management tools, enabled us to create templates for automatically configuring groups of APs,” says Leppelman. “I just plug in the APs and walk away.”

动态连接到Aruba Switch是关键好处

Rio Rancho还依靠Instant的功能将基于购物车的AP动态连接到该地区5400 ZL开关上的正确端口。

“Because we intended the cart-mounted APs to give us the flexibility to deploy them anywhere, we’re very pleased that our Instant APs can be configured to automatically connect to the appropriate switch port,” Leppelman says. “It’s just one more way that Aruba simplifies management."

Aruba Clearpass =强大的安全性和BYOD支持

为了支持其BYOD计划，Rio Rancho打算通过实施Clearpass Policy Manager进行网络访问控制，以提高安全性和部署强大的来宾网络。

ClearPass combines context-based policy management with next-generation AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) services for comprehensively managing network access policies, onboarding and managing devices securely, and admitting guest users.

Self-service onboarding with automatic access rights
“We look forward to self-service guest network onboarding, which includes automatically assigning the appropriate access rights,” says Leppelman. “Then, students, teachers and administrators can use their smartphones, and other mobile devices, for various instructional purposes while we maintain central control.”

“Ultimately, we’d also like to use the ClearPass features that enable wired networking access control,” Leppelman adds. “That includes computing equipment as well as printers, HVAC and other static devices.”

无缝连接数千个设备

In the meantime, Rio Rancho’s WLAN enables 3000 to 5000 district-owned devices to connect seamlessly at any given time. This includes mobile access to Apple Bonjour-enabled devices, such as Apple TVs, that are managed by Aruba’s AirGroup feature.

任何设备的灵活性以及今天和明天的Wi-Fi可伸缩性

此外，学区还具有部署任何类型的计算设备教师和学生最想要的任何类型的计算机。这包括苹果，窗户和Android设备。“我们已经拥有Windows笔记本电脑和Apple iPad，” Leppelman说。“现在人们想要Chromebook，所以我们也将开始购买它们。”

Most importantly, Rio Rancho’s wireless and wired networks are scaling out to meet new needs. “We continue to deploy more Instant APs as our needs grow,” Leppelman. “Overall, our Aruba solutions are working great for our users and are easy to administer from a single pane of glass.”