Aruba 802.11ac无线访问点，以提高Wi-Fi安全性，覆盖范围和性能
Delivering ultra-fast Wi-Fi is increasingly essential to the college experience, but can be particularly challenging for older colleges. Located an hour north of Pittsburgh, Grove City College was founded in 1876.
“林城市学院所有的学生享受本efits of college-issued wireless devices. Our primary objective was to ensure that older buildings were able to keep pace with student expectations, while controlling associated costs,” explains Grove City College CIO Vince DiStasi. “For us it was a business imperative to increase performance, coverage, and flexibility of our Wi-Fi network to deliver on a high quality experience for our 2,500 students.”
扩展现有的基础架构
格罗夫市学院（Grove City College）是Hewlett Packet Enterprise（HPE）数据中心，核心和无线解决方案的长期用户，拥有一个传统的Wi-Fi网络，但在许多宿舍和会议区域（例如校园图书馆。这个老化的Wi-Fi网络正在耗时维护，无法提供大学所需的超快速Wi-Fi连接。
该学院网络建筑师Michael Aque说：“我们希望在整个校园内提供一致的Wi-Fi体验，同时提供更高速度的无线服务。”当格罗夫市学院评估升级选项时，HPE收购了现在是HPE公司的Aruba。
“We waited until we evaluated the roadmap for integrating the Aruba products into HPE, and then developed a strategy for migrating our Wi-Fi infrastructure to Aruba networking products,” he continues.
Deploying 802.11ac connectivity
Grove City College implemented a phased implementation plan, focusing first on buildings with limited coverage. “We wanted to implement a Wi-Fi network that faculty, students, administrators, and guests could depend on, and that meant universal wireless coverage,” says DiStasi. “That’s why we focused first on older residence halls and the campus library, where wireless performance was not as strong as other locations on campus.”
Overcoming obstacles
我们的Wave 2 AP提高了Wi-Fi性能和我们的无线网络的未来。
文斯·迪斯塔西（Vince Distasi），CIO of Grove City College
阿鲁巴installedWave 2 802.11ac Access Points(APs) connected to7200系列移动控制器在1954年建造的亨利·布尔图书馆中。
“这个较旧的设施充满了书籍，并在Wi-Fi表演中遇到了实体障碍。尽管这对学生来说是一个必不可少的学习领域，但它的Wi-Fi覆盖范围不佳。” Aque说。“我们在图书馆中安装了22个AP作为概念证明，我们立即从每月的数十个覆盖范围投诉到图书馆的零承保投诉。”
该学院还通过部署来扩展其无线开关基础架构5400R开关系列平台增强其现有的Aruba开关。这个强大的3层模块化开关系列提供了高性能，低潜伏期和弹性，并为格罗夫市学院提供了更好的移动优先校园体验。
Expanding Wi-Fi connectivity
然后，格罗夫市学院（Grove City College）在几个坚固的砖石灰泥宿舍中增加了802.11ac AP，现在正在积极扩大整个校园的Wi-Fi覆盖范围。
“我们的目标是每bu 802.11 ac覆盖率ilding within the next three months,” says DiStasi. “We’ll also have 802.11ac APs operational by then in about half of our residence halls.” DiStasi expects to have at least 825 Aruba 802.11ac APs operational within this timeframe.
Streamlining network operations
学院正在利用Clearpass政策经理to securely authenticate users andAirwave网络管理获取网络的单一视图以分析和了解使用趋势。
Authenticating users with ClearPass
Grove City College originally deployedClearPassto simplify the authentication of guests and support the on-boarding of new users, and is now broadening its usage to enable users to register their own devices.
Distasi说：“ ClearPass在一个凝聚力的解决方案中提供可见性，策略控制和工作流程自动化，现在我们正在使用它来改善无线网络安全性，更好地了解网络使用情况，并为用户身份验证提供单个门户。”格罗夫市学院（Grove City College）正在校园内实现无缝的漫游体验，并为访客提供简单安全的访客网络访问权限，同时使学生，教职员工和校园社区的其他成员可以通过无线网络安全地访问大学资源。
Optimizing performance and coverage with AirWave
The college is currently using HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) to manage its wired and wireless networks, but over the next few months will be implementingAirWaveto administer the Wi-Fi infrastructure. AirWave is a powerful and easy-to-use network management platform that will provide IT with granular visibility into devices, users, and applications running on the wireless network.
“We’ll be using AirWave to supplement HPE IMC and provide a single view into our wireless infrastructure,” says Aque. Through a centralized and intuitive user interface, AirWave will provide IT with real-time monitoring, proactive alerts, and historical reporting. IT staff will also use it to streamline troubleshooting and continuously optimize wireless coverage and performance.
Future-proofing wireless infrastructure
Distasi说：“自2004年以来，我们一直依靠HPE无线解决方案，我认为我们已经部署了HPE提供的所有解决方案。”“现在，我们专注于在校园的任何地方提供一贯的高性能。”
波2 Aruba 802.11ac AP具有集成蓝牙Aruba Beacon这简化了Aruba信标的远程管理，同时还提供了高级位置和室内方法，以及基于接近性的推送通知功能。它使格罗夫市学院能够利用流动性环境来支持提供增强用户体验的应用程序。
“We’ll be using the子午线移动应用程序平台Distasi说道。“例如，潜在的学生将能够进行自我指导的游览，并且学生将能够从其移动设备中查找图书馆中参考材料的可用性。”
Increasing performance and reliability
The use of Bluetooth and beacons is helping Grove City College future-proof its wireless infrastructure.
“We’re in the early stages of leveraging these technologies but will increasingly utilize them to enhance the wireless experience for our students,” says DiStasi. “By deploying Aruba 802.11ac APs, we’ve been able to increase performance by over 50 percent, and our management tools are providing insights that are helping us ensure reliable, campus-wide Wi-Fi coverage.”
He concludes, “Wi-Fi is now becoming more integrated into the classroom experience. It’s difficult to captivate students for 50 minutes to an hour-and-a-half in a classroom experience if there are Wi-Fi problems, and by increasing the performance and reliability of our wireless network we are better preparing students to enter the world when they graduate. In the past we viewed Wi-Fi as a matter of convenience, but we now view it as a mission-critical resource that is central to the education of our students.”
