Innovative, Market-Leading Access Points Enable
‘Future Ready’ Staff, Students, and Campuses
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that a significant, rapidly growing number of educational
institutions – in both K-12 and higher education – are upgrading
their network infrastructures with Wi-Fi 6E to enable the next
generation of digital classrooms and campuses. The increased
capacity, higher performance, and greater support for client and
IoT device density made possible with Wi-Fi 6E, combined with
specific innovations in Aruba’s access points (APs), are allowing
these institutions to deliver extraordinary campus and classroom
experiences for their students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
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The increased capacity, higher
performance, and greater support for client and IoT device density
made possible with Wi-Fi 6E, combined with specific innovations in
Aruba’s access points (APs), are allowing these institutions to
deliver extraordinary campus and classroom experiences for their
students, faculty, staff, and visitors. (Source: Doane
University)
Doane University, Texas A&M University, Meramec Valley R-III
School District, and Festus R-VI School District are just a few of
the 250+ educational institutions – and more than 1,400 total
organizations – that have moved to Aruba Wi-Fi 6E APs as a
foundation for enabling teaching, learning and smart campus
initiatives since Aruba’s Wi-Fi 6E solutions were introduced in May
2021. Industry research firms like 650 Group indicate that these
numbers have given Aruba a market-leading position in delivering
Wi-Fi 6E infrastructure.
“In the fast-growing and competitive Wi-Fi 6E enterprise Access
Point market, Aruba has taken an early lead and has shipped over
35% of all Wi-Fi 6E enterprise APs since the inception of the
market,” said Chris DePuy, technology analyst and founder at 650
Group.
Key concerns for educational institutions that are driving this
movement to Wi-Fi 6E include the need to accommodate
ever-increasing numbers of client and IoT devices connecting to the
network, supporting collaboration and innovation, increasing
bandwidth to support new use cases such as high-definition video,
AR/VR, and distance learning, future proofing their network
investments, and meeting the ever-increasing expectations that
students, staff and faculty have for ubiquitous, always-on,
powerful connectivity. In addition, K-12 districts and universities
alike are integrating IoT devices for student safety, lighting,
security cameras, and HVAC solutions – all of which become part of
the overall building automation and form the foundation for
creating smart facilities. The value that institutions can realize
from creating smart facilities include supporting sustainability
initiatives through conservation as well as cost-savings on
resources such as electricity and heating and cooling.
Founded in 1872, Doane University is Nebraska’s oldest private
college and is designated as a “Top National Liberal Arts College”
by U.S. News and World Report. Located in Crete, the University’s
main campus is comprised of 21 buildings. including six residence
halls that house 800 students. Doane also operates two satellite
campuses located in Lincoln and Omaha. The technology department is
committed to investing in technology that provides a modern, 21st
Century learning experience for their students and building a
network for where the University wants to be in the future.
“As we move forward in our digital transformation, we are seeing
an exponential increase in student devices, as well as our own IoT
devices that need to be on the network,” said Ryan Dorshorst,
director of technology operations at Doane University. “We need to
support an expanding variety of mission-critical applications that
support research and collaboration as well as high-bandwidth
applications for learning and entertainment, like streaming video,
video communications, and AR/VR. With Aruba’s Wi-Fi 6E APs, we can
meet our immediate needs and have the ability to expand to
accommodate the future needs of our campus, staff, and
students.”
With the largest student body in the United States, Texas
A&M University serves nearly 73,000 students and employs more
than 11,000 faculty and staff members. The main campus, located in
College Station, Texas, spans more than 5,500 acres. Texas A&M
offers degrees in more than 130 courses of study through 17
colleges and houses 21 research institutes. The University recently
embarked on a journey to create the Next Generation Aggie Network
(NGAN) and plans to move the entire campus to Wi-Fi 6E within three
years.
“On any given day, we have roughly 120,000 unique devices on our
network,” said Ed Pierson, chief information officer at Texas
A&M. “When we started designing NGAN, we needed a resilient
network that could scale quickly and easily as our needs evolved.
We plan to use our Aruba Wi-Fi 6E network to support indoor
location-based services with Open Locate for public safety and
Passpoint for DAS implementation. Our focus is on building a smart
campus of tomorrow and that requires a secure, reliable,
high-performance network. Deploying Wi-Fi 6E was the clear choice,
and with our solid partnership with Aruba and our other Aruba
solutions in place, we knew we’d be successful in this
endeavor.”
Comprised of nine K-12 schools, the Meramec Valley R-III School
District in southeastern Missouri serves 3,000 students and employs
450 teachers and staff. With a firm belief that instructional
technology should enhance and expand the learning environment,
engage students, and enable them to create, communicate,
collaborate, and think critically, the district has directed its
technology department to facilitate the integration of technology
into all areas of the district – both inside and outside the
classroom.
“Wi-Fi 6E has increased our network performance an average of
10x,” said Debby Haley, director of technology at Meramec Valley.
“This means that students and teachers are spending their valuable
classroom time engaged instead of waiting for lagging educational
materials such as video to load and play.”
Haley continued, “Implementing Aruba Wi-Fi 6E has been such a
great improvement over our old technology that we are certain
moving forward we will ask for the 6E model in future purchase
requests.”
Festus R-VI School District, located south of St. Louis,
Missouri, operates four schools with a total enrollment of 3,300
students. The district has the objective to support excellence in
teaching, learning, and assessment through effective uses of
technology. To support this objective, the district is implementing
a comprehensive district-wide technology plan. Critical to that
plan is to ensure that staff and students have access to the latest
technology to set them up for future success.
“At Festus School District, one of our goals is to make sure
students are prepared to succeed when they graduate, whether they
go on to college, vocational training, or enter the workforce,”
said Josh Bauman, director of technology at Festus R-VI School
District. “One of the ways we prepare them is through early
adoption of cutting-edge technologies so our students will be
familiar and comfortable using technology in their post-K-12 lives.
With our recent installation of Aruba 630 Series Wi-Fi 6E access
points, we now have ‘future ready’ infrastructure to support our
‘future ready’ students.”
Additional Resources:
- Wi-Fi 6E: What is the best way to achieve tri-band
coverage?
- What is Wi-Fi 6E? Frequently Asked Questions
- 6 Strategies to Get the Most Out of Wi-Fi 6E and 6GHz
(eBook)
- Wi-Fi 6E: Is it Time to Take a Layered Approach? (white
paper)
- K-12 Funding—E-rate and more
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global
leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions
that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive
powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform)
and as-a-service options as part of the HPE GreenLake family, Aruba
takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their
connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus,
branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all
aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com. For
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