阿鲁巴Gigabit Wi-Fi scales to enable a half-million simultaneous connections for school & community

在1500万平方英尺的设施中提供移动性连通性，使弗兰基·杰克逊（Frankie Jackson）成为企业Wi-Fi的重中之重。

“With nearly 114,000 students and over 14,000 employees, we’re moving toward several million device connections,” explains Jackson, the CTO of Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. “We also need effective tools for managing mobile devices, connections and infrastructure throughout our 87 campuses, plus seven more in the next five years, spread across approximately 238 square miles.”

Enabling Half-Million Simultaneous Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) Connections

作为德克萨斯州的第三大地区，以及全国第22大区，柏树 - 费尔银行需要一个能够安全支持BYOT环境并扩展到每天有50万个同时连接的Wi-Fi系统。

Working with its local partner, Layer 3, Cypress-Fairbanks selected Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to replace its existing WLAN.

“To effectively prepare students to be 21st Century global leaders, we needed wireless infrastructure that delivered the same experiences as a wired network,” Jackson says. “Aruba met all of our requirements.”

阿鲁巴's 802.11ac WLAN Answers the Needs

阿鲁巴岛的技术带来的好处对你至关重要r 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

为了获得教育需求，并获得对公立学校至关重要的TCO收益，柏树 - 费用银银银行选择部署IEEE 802.11AC的无线基础设施，称为Gigabit Wi-Fi。

The implementation includes approximately 7800阿鲁巴indoor access points(APs) and nearly 400outdoor APs, managed by7200系列移动控制器。

To administer its expansive network, the institution adopted Aruba’s robust management tools阿鲁巴空军，用于主动监视WLAN的健康和绩效阿鲁巴ClearPass, for strong security and smart policy management.

部署有资格E-ratefunding for expanding school Wi-Fi networks.

Very high-density deployment handles device proliferation

为了适应预期的设备扩散，赛普拉斯 - 费尔银行正在采用高密度的Wi-Fi策略。第三级正在仔细映射和部署基础架构，以确保整个学校的校园内无缝过渡并顺利处理高峰需求，例如在线测试期间。

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.

为了使其作为一个大型公共场所保持吸引力，诸如浆果中心之类的设施需要非常高密度（VHD）Wi-Fi设计和部署策略Aruba Technologies提供的设施。这样可以确保成千上万的活动与会者可以在所需的Wi-Fi性能级别同时连接。

阿鲁巴ClearPass Supports Mobility and IoT Security Demands

By adoptingClearPass政策管理, 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.

“Because we’re moving to a BYOT model, centralizing the security for hundreds of thousands of device connections was critical,” says Jackson. “The benefits of Aruba’s ClearPass technology are extremely attractive and vital to our device initiative’s success.”

Smart policy management assures hassle-free access
The district highly values ClearPass for its smart policy management, which automates the separation of external guest connectivity from internal educational traffic.

“We currently have an initiative underway to install outdoor and indoor APs to provide Wi-Fi access for parents and community members as well as students and teachers,” says Jackson. “With ClearPass, this guest traffic is segregated from instructional access, ensuring a secure learning environment and enabling us to prioritize bandwidth for educational purposes.”

Further, ClearPass can automatically and continuously shift known devices from the guest network to the internal network. “Moving student devices onto the internal network during the school day ensures their equipment is properly secured and protected by our content filtering applications,” Jackson says.

阿鲁巴空军Enables Proactive Optimization

具有大量Wi-Fi系统（例如柏树）的组织需要对访问层的详细可见性（在用户，设备和应用程序级别），以使情况保持平稳，而不会破坏教学，学习和社区活动。

That’s why the district deployedAirWave。该工具使精益的IT人员可以通过可视化从集中式仪表板来监视设备行为，主动对应用程序问题进行故障排除并计划满足新需求的能力来最大程度地减少开销。

更重要的是，可以将Airwave用作预测工具，以模拟上学日开始时的一系列设备连接的情况，使IT员工在出现之前就可以解决问题。

Schools & Community Enjoy Multiple Benefits

如今，赛普拉斯 - 费尔班克斯和周边社区正在享受韧性，可靠的Aruba Wlan的多重好处。

Wi-Fi boosts school spirit
杰克逊（Jackson）引用了学校精神，只是该地区如何利用其新的Wi-Fi的一个例子。杰克逊说：“使用ClearPass，我们每所高中的门户网站都带有他们的学校颜色和徽标。”“这使3500至4,000名学生每次登录时都会感到自豪。”

Infrastructure supplies secure access for all
杰克逊说，放学时间和周末，任何社区成员都可以在安全环境中使用该地区的访客访问权限。

“ClearPass manages wireless traffic to distinguish between different types of users — whether they’re visitors, student and administrators — and directs them into the appropriate levels of access,” she says.

地区体验10倍连接性提高

Overall, teaching and learning are significantly enhanced at Cypress-Fairbanks, with education-related mobile connections having skyrocketed by approximately 10-fold since the deployment began.

启用传统，虚拟和混合教学
随着赛普拉斯 - 福尔银行（Cypress-Fairbanks）继续建立其Wi-Fi以实现传统，虚拟和混合教学模型，像亚历山德拉·冈萨雷斯（Alexandra Gonzales）这样的教师说，流动性提高了其效率和有效性。

高中代数老师和排球教练解释说：“流动性是一个巨大的好处。“在与课堂相关的活动中工作的能力在任何地方都可以确保我可以最大程度地教会学生。”

Mobility helps personalize learning for creativity and empowerment
根据杰克逊的说法，下一代流动性正在确保赛普拉斯 - 费尔银行可以采用领先的教育实践来为学生做好准备。她说：“我们的Aruba Wi-Fi正在帮助我们实现我们的目标，以丰富的多媒体体验来个性化学习，从而赋予赋权和创造力。”