Aruba + HP网络为现代教学，学习和学生生活提供快速，可靠和安全的移动性。

Like many residential institutions, most of Trevecca Nazarene University’s students are required to live on campus while they learn. This makes John Eberle’s networking infrastructure vital to academic goals and recreational activities, day and night.

“Students from one particular dorm were complaining about insufficient Wi-Fi,” explains Eberle, Deputy CIO of Infrastructure for the 2,500-student institution in Nashville, Tennessee. “Our device densities had grown too high for us to support.”

Moving Up to Gigabit Wi-Fi

With 50 to 60 mobile devices seeking to connect per four-room student suite, Trevecca decided to pilot Gigabit Wi-Fi in the affected building.

“Students from that residence hall raved about the improvements to their friends and professors,” Eberle says. “With our faculty members increasingly adopting wireless technologies for teaching and learning, as well as the explosion in student mobility, it made sense to standardize our entire campus on 802.11ac.”

Aruba和HP网络：获胜组合

此前，Trevecca与Aruba Networks和HP Networking合作，提供了现有的无线和有线基础架构。当两家公司宣布合并时，它有助于使该机构的升级决定更加容易。

埃伯尔说：“通过联手，HPN和Aruba使我们有信心与现有合作伙伴一起前进。”

Trevecca的高级网络管理员Jeff Tedford同意。他说：“由于产生的协同作用，让我们值得信赖的基础设施提供商成为联合的网络和IT团队。”

802.11AC启用#GenMobile的基础架构

在无线方面，特雷维卡（Trevecca）选择使用Aruba 802.11ac室内和室外接入点（APS）和移动性控制器部署普遍的Wi-Fi。此外，该大学还部署了Aruba的供应商Agnostic Management工具Airwave，以优化Wi-Fi体验和ClearPass，以实现强大的安全性。

“It was critical to provide our faculty members with the Wi-Fi performance they require for today’s academic environment,” Eberle says. “Time is too precious for professors and students to waste it waiting for an important teaching video to begin streaming.”

Intelligent HP switches enhance and future-proof

By combining Aruba and HP Networking, we can handle ever-increasing device densities and deliver more speed.
约翰·埃伯尔（John Eberle），Deputy CIO, Trevecca Nazarene University

对于有线升级，Trevecca安装了HP 2920 Switch系列，该系列为Edge和10GBE Uplink提供了千兆以太网，以替换其老化的100MB单元。此外，该机构采用了HP的智能管理中心（IMC）解决方案进行有线网络控制和优化。

Combining HPN and Aruba solutions provides Trevecca with the secure, scalable architecture it requires to meet the current and future needs of its #GenMobile community – the new breed of mobility-enabled technology users.

泰德福德说：“通过部署HP 2920系列开关以及Aruba的解决方案，我们不仅获得了今天所需的性能，而且还获得了未来的网络。”“而且，当我们需要升级互联网管道时，我们有信心拥有正确的基础设施。”

Seamless indoor and outdoor transitions

Standardizing on Aruba’s Gigabit Wi-Fi and HPN’s switches ensures students, educators and guests can transition fluidly between indoor and outdoor spaces.

“Previously, we only had minimal outdoor coverage where students tended to congregate,” says Eberle. Now, we’re extending our Wi-Fi to additional outdoor facilities, such as ball fields, and improving connectivity in existing areas, like parking lots.”

“With our new infrastructure, our users move smoothly throughout all of these locations,” he adds.

Airwave和IMC流线操作

为了确保其无线和有线网络的整体健康状况，Trevecca利用Aruba的Airwave和HP的IMC获得关键和颗粒状基础设施的可见性。对于Wi-Fi，这包括基于用户角色，设备类型，连接位置，应用程序用法和时间的实时和历史信息。

On the wired side, IMC provides Trevecca with end-to-end transparency with comprehensive configuration, compliance, and policy management, as well as advanced monitoring and reporting. Additionally, the institution gains Software-defined Networking (SDN) readiness.

Other benefits include an improved carbon footprint, Tedford says. “Our HP switches automatically change to power saving mode when traffic is absent.”

Insights aid network support

Trevecca使用Airwave发现，绝大多数连接的设备都是iPhone。常见的是iPad，运行Mac或Windows OS，Android Gear，游戏设备和AppleTV的移动设备。

“By helping to reveal our average Wi-Fi user runs three to five devices, AirWave improves our ability to build out the network to meet the growing demands,” Eberle reports.

Additionally, AirWave automatically identifies RF obstacles and moves mobile devices to a cleaner channel. Plus, Trevecca appreciates AirWave’s VisualRF for providing device and application performance data.

“AirWave is very effective,” Tedford says, noting the tool cuts problem solving from hours to minutes. “It provides significant assistance with troubleshooting and other tasks. We really appreciate AirWave’s capabilities.”

ClearPass和HPN提供安全的访问和快速入职

对于网络访问控制和策略管理，Trevecca利用Aruba的ClearPass和HP的IMC组合。

“Combining Aruba and HP technologies allows us to provide access via Microsoft Active Directory,” Eberle says. This enables Trevecca to give users the same credentials for wireless and wired access.

ClearPass also provides advanced role management and streamlined onboarding for all Trevecca constituencies and guests.

As Eberle points out, this is important as his institution never shuts down. “We have non-traditional students attending classes year-around,” he says. “And, during the summer, we host multiple events, including a major music camp that fills our undergraduate dormitories. With ClearPass, we provide guest access for visitors and simplify onboarding for all users.”

During Trevecca’s most recent fall orientation period, ClearPass helped the institution shine. “Over three days of registration we had over 1800 new devices connect through ClearPass with no issues,” Eberle says. “The tool has proven to be rock solid. We’re very happy with it."

More security with fewer IT resources

从管理的角度来看，Trevecca通过利用ClearPass和IMC组合的SDN功能来大大减少管理时间。

“Previously, it took about an hour to manually configure switch ports and assign the appropriate VLAN,” Tedford says. “Now, devices automatically connect with the appropriate VLAN.”

“最重要的是，我们的新解决方案可以增强安全性并改善我们的访问控制。”他补充说。

Speedy Wi-Fi: Star of Academic and Leisure Roles

如今，Trevecca教师和学生不仅享有可靠，安全的高性能移动性，而且学生还说增强功能已脱颖而出。“一切都更好，”高级约翰·基顿（John Keaton）说。“ Wi-Fi运行速度更快，并且应用程序加载更快。”

Fellow student Andrew Cohen agrees. “Since most of my classes require that homework be completed online, having fast and reliable internet is a necessity,” he says. Also, I can play online games with my friends as well as stream all of my movies and shows.”

企业连通性 - 教师的命令

对于Trevecca教育者来说，这是一个类似的故事。“借助我们改进的Wi-Fi，教职员工可以轻松地将其设备运送到会议和课堂上，以出于各种生产目的，” Skinner商业和技术学院院长詹姆斯·希亚特（James Hiatt）说。

Michael Leih, Chair of the Department of Information Technology, concurs. “As new educational techniques – such as the flipped classroom – become more common, instructors and students require fast and reliable information access,” he says. “Our new Wi-Fi system easily handles the bandwidth demands, so everyone can get to information quickly and efficiently.”