Aruba Wave 2 Gigabit Wireless Network Provides the Foundation for CERN’s Mobile-First Research Facility for 12,000 Staff & ...
January 10 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
World’s Largest Physics Laboratory and
Birthplace of the Worldwide Web Deploys Aruba 802.11ac Wave 2
Network to Ensure Secure and Seamless Mobility, Improve Workplace
Productivity
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE:HPE), today
announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, is upgrading its wireless network with Aruba 802.11ac
Wave 2 access points and mobility controllers. The world’s largest
physics lab, in which the Worldwide Web originated, is moving to a
state-of-the-art wireless campus to ensure maximal workplace
productivity for the 12,000 staff, visiting scientists and contract
workers onsite everyday who require secure gigabit mobility across
CERN’s 200+ building campus.
Founded in 1954, the CERN laboratory has now 22 member states
and sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, spread over
23 square miles. Physicists and engineers are probing the
fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest
and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic
constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. CERN’s
flagship, the Large Hadron Collider, is a 27 kilometer ring buried
100 meters underground, accelerating particles close to the speed
of light. Over 10,000 scientists from more than 100 nationalities
and 600 universities collaborate with CERN.
To enable its staff and scientists to achieve their research
goals, CERN decided to upgrade its infrastructure to provide a
modern, mobile-first campus that could accommodate the nearly
20,000 different devices that need to connect to the network daily.
Reliable coverage across its campus, enabling visiting scientists
and workers to use their own mobile devices, and the ability to
properly sandbox visitor devices and detect ‘rogue’ access points,
were key concerns for the CERN IT staff.
“Our network handles both research data and traditional,
workplace traffic and with so many visiting scientists, we have to
provide a reliable, mobile work environment that allows everyone to
connect with their own devices,” said Tony Cass, Leader of the
Communications Systems Group and Physicist at CERN. “Moving from
our current network to a controller-based network that enables
seamless roaming from one building to another and can help us
provide different levels of connectivity based on the type of user
connecting were top priorities for us.”
While CERN already had a high-performance HPE wired network in
place, they wanted to update their wireless network to keep up with
user demands for greater mobility. Following a call for proposals
with strict requirements, CERN determined that upgrading to Aruba
802.11ac Wave 2 access points and controllers, along with Aruba
AirWave for network management, could provide the coverage,
security, reliability and centralized management capabilities they
were looking for.
“The Aruba wireless network proposal met our stringent
requirements,” Cass noted. “We’ve had great support from the HPE
and Aruba sales, support and executive teams and they were able to
deliver the solutions we needed.”
A key selling point for CERN was the intelligence built into the
Aruba controllers that supports seamless roaming across their
expansive campus and lets them segment users to improve security.
Using the new network capabilities, CERN plans to give users a
token, sent to their mobile devices via SMS, to allow simple and
rapid connection to the network.
As CERN rolls out the network, they expect to see numerous
benefits including better support for the high density of users,
the ability to connect all users securely, regardless of device
type, automated deployment and configuration, and improved
management and troubleshooting. With the large CERN campus, new
capabilities like controller clustering and AirMatch, which
fine-tunes RF for the best network performance, are delivered
through Aruba’s newest operating system release, ArubaOS 8, to
ensure that the network is optimized automatically for users and
maintains reliable connections for their critical research. In
addition, choosing Aruba’s Wave 2 technology and access points that
incorporate built-in BLE beacons, should CERN decide to implement
locations services, future-proofs the network, protecting CERN’s
investment.
Said Cass, “With the mobility demands of our staff and
scientists increasing, we knew that installing the right wireless
infrastructure was critical to enabling a productive workplace. The
Aruba network addresses our current challenges, and we are
confident it will help ensure that we’re prepared for future
growth.”
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading
provider of next-generation networking solutions for enterprises of
all sizes worldwide. The company delivers IT solutions that empower
organizations to serve the latest generation of mobile-savvy users
who rely on cloud-based business apps for every aspect of their
work and personal lives.
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com.
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