When students decide to enroll in an institute of higher learning such as Quinnipiac University, they are expecting rapid wireless connectivity speeds as well as the ability to work on-the-go from anywhere and at any time.
Through preparing undergraduate and graduate degree seekers with the life skills needed to excel in whatever area they may choose including business, communications, health, education, law, nursing or liberal arts, the school needed a way to connect its national university with eight schools and colleges as well as two additional campuses. That is exactly where wireless connectivity comes into play, with in this case the network being powered by the Aruba Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture.
After searching high and low for a highly reliable and robust network that could handle a sometimes overwhelming amount of traffic from students, staff and faculty alike, the educational facility realized that the Aruba MOVEs solution was the ideal product to meet its individual needs. When leveraging this offering, visibility will be significantly increased and overall costs will be slashed.
“Quinnipiac will also leverage the MOVE architecture at its new state-of-the-art Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, which is scheduled to open in March 2013 for faculty and staff and in August for students. In a first for medical school facilities, the university is building its new School of Medicine from the ground up with pervasive wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. The building’s technology infrastructure will enable the faculty to leverage wireless in every facet of teaching, including videoconferencing, video streaming and lecture capture. Students also will be able to access scanned images in the gross anatomy lab,” a company statement revealed.
By switching out the old 250 Cisco (News - Alert) access switches and replacing them with Aruba S3500 Mobility Access Switches, the Connecticut-based institute will be able to measure up to demands created by newly introduced devices and applications to the infrastructure.
Officials added, “The new unified access network will also include eight M3 Series Mobility Controllers and one 3200 Series Mobility Controller, nearly 2,000 AP-125 and AP-135 access points (APs) and the Aruba AirWave (News - Alert) network management system. AirWave was a key factor in selecting the Aruba solution because it uses a user-centric approach to identify who is on the network, where they are accessing the network, which mobile devices they are using and how much bandwidth is being consumed by specific devices.”
Edited by Rich Steeves