Launching “Classrooms Without Walls,” with Aruba Mobile-First Network
用例：启用“无墙的教室”倡议，以引入虚拟化的混合学习，以扩大入学率，提高保留率并支持充满活力的校园社区，同时节省约60万美元的许可费用。
将传统机构转变为以混合学习模型和无边界教室为特征的卓越中心，要求Tonjia Coverdale博士的IT团队超越动员体验。
“部署的基础设施来匹配我们的竞争对手wasn’t enough,” says Coverdale, Vice President for IT and CIO at 1,700-student Central State University based in Wilberforce, Ohio. “As a relatively small public institution we needed to take a quantum user-experience leap and do it on a budget.”
Robust Infrastructure with Investment Protection
从历史上看，中央政府官员是一所住宅大学，设想提供下一代校园经验，同时还可以旋转建立和发展交互式距离计划。但是，该大学现有的有限的无线和旧版有线系统并不能完成这项任务。
“As we received one-time state grant funding to create a smart campus, adopting solutions that offered significant investment protection was critical,” Coverdale says. “This meant we not only needed a cost-effective, reliable and secure network for today, but also the flexibility and scalability to meet the demands of tomorrow.”
与战略当地合作伙伴紧密合作Laketec，选择并部署了一家惠普企业公司Aruba的整体无线和有线解决方案。
Adding阿鲁巴的基础护理通过确保完全访问直接技术支持，按需软件更新和升级以及灵活的硬件更换选项，进一步保护了中央州的投资。
Augmenting the On-campus User Experience
With our investment-protected network enabling our “Classrooms Without Walls” initiative, we can help more students stay on course and achieve their degrees whether they’re on campus or not. As an educator, that’s very exciting.Dr. Tonjia Coverdale,Vice President for IT and CIO at Central State University
除了距离和混合学习选择外，中央州还为支持其充满活力的校园社区提供了溢价。这使高级宿舍经验处于中央州优先级的首要任务。
Coverdale说：“我们校园学生中约有70％依靠我们全天候的学术和休闲要求。”“正如今天的学生期望流动性的那样，高性能宿舍Wi-Fi是竞争性的当务之急。”
她补充说：“从业务角度来看，我们还需要我们的宿舍无线基础设施来支持校园安全，同时又保持在我们的预算范围内。”
Cost-effective future proofing with 303H APs
Given the multiple demands, Aruba’s 303H access points proved the right fit. “Because the 303H units only require one networking cable, we gained high-performance 802.11ac Wave 2 connectivity at half the cabling cost,” Coverdale says.
“另外,每个303 h APs含有添加剂ional Ethernet ports that support our long-term IoT and location-based services goals,” she continues. “For example, we’re evaluating the addition of temperature sensors to provide this generation of environmentally sensitive students with app-enabled HVAC control capabilities to adjust their room temperature wirelessly, rather than wasting energy when they’re away.”
与ClearPass一起简单，无缝的设备共享和物联网管理
为了进行数据安全，Central State的ClearPass部署正在实现无缝的自助服务共享经验以及保护学生，教职员工和员工设备。
“We not only offer smooth portal-enabled onboarding, but users can also elect to securely share their devices with each other,” says Coverdale. Whether it’s granting wireless printer access to roommates or allowing an Xbox to communicate with others across campus, users set their sharing preferences.
Coverdale补充说：“很快，ClearPass将统一我们的无线和有线网络访问。”“这将使我们通过使我们能够在集中控制物联网和其他设备连接来访问管理级别，这将扩大我们可以为学术，研究和休闲追求提供的能力，同时还可以最大程度地减少运营开销。”
Making students safer
除了提供卓越的学术和休闲经验外，新的基础设施还使校园安全官员赋予了权力。现在，由于Aruba的300系列室内和室外APS，他们可以从其无线设备访问有线安全摄像机，从而在所有校园空间中提供普遍的高性能移动性。
“Before, campus police officers had no visibility into on-campus incidents prior to arriving at the scene,” says Coverdale. “The ability to quickly access video feeds from any camera on a mobile device will significantly improve incident identification and response.”
Scalable wired networking at hundreds of thousands in savings
Adopting Aruba’s modular 3810 switches provided further future-proofing. The switches supplied advanced deployment capabilities immediately and will save up to $600,000 over a five-year period on licensing, thanks to Aruba’s campus switching ‘no license required’.
According to Central State’s managed service provider (MSP), Laketec, an advantage to the 3810’s is the ability to aggregate multiple switch models to create a ‘core’ architecture in some buildings while deploying other models at the edge while gaining the same innovative features and functionality across all of the units no matter how they are deployed.
此外，3810的冗余功能可以实现复杂的故障转移冗余，以提高弹性并保持网络始终可用。
原始投资的三分之一的四分之一的能力
Another significant benefit of the Aruba’s switching innovation is modularity. By simply swapping modules when Central State needs more bandwidth, the institution can modify existing 3810’s to jump from the current 10Gbps to 40Gbps – without purchasing and deploying new switches.
In other words, Central State can quadruple bandwidth across the entire footprint at a cost of only about a third of a forklift upgrade, which equates to an estimated half-million dollars.
扩大入学率并提高保留率
With its new infrastructure in place, Central State has turned to implementing its “Classrooms Without Walls” academic transformation. “Our high-performance network enables real-time virtual learning, where professors and students can interact with the same richness as in a physical classroom,” says Coverdale.
她继续说：“一个重要的组件将是实施视频会议解决方案，以通过他们选择的个人计算设备（例如台式机，笔记本电脑，平板电脑甚至智能手机）将我们的校园与用户联系起来。”“校园的学生和教职员工将能够与学生和教职员工合作，无论他们身在何处，甚至按需。这种合作水平仅仅是因为我们在如此高质量的网络中进行了投资。”
As its new network is only operating at 30-40 percent utilization today, Central State’s infrastructure is ready to meet such evolving demands. “We envision having the capability to exponentially expand the number of students we can enroll and support,” Coverdale says.
Helping students overcome obstacles to achieve success
What’s more, Central State expects to boost retention and matriculation rates. “Our traditional and non-traditional students increasingly face external forces, such as family or work demands, which prohibit them from being on campus full-time,” Coverdale says. “In the past, these students tended to halt their educational process.”
“Now, with our new network and “Classrooms Without Walls,” we can help students complete their studies whether they’re on campus or not,” she explains. “As an educator, that’s very exciting.”
