Flagship institution gains a secure, policy-driven network that
authenticates over 80,000 devices daily while saving multi-millions
on infrastructure costs
To support its mission for turning idealism into action by
facilitating innovative new learning models and supporting
world-class research, the University of Maryland (UMD) has chosen
the HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) networking
solution by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE). The campus-wide
deployment includes Wi-Fi 6E wireless access points (APs) and CX
wired switches, powered end-to-end by AI insights. The new network
will enable the flagship institution, which is home to more than
40,700 students and 14,000 faculty and staff, to continue its
tradition of global academic leadership on its 1,300-acre campus
while saving millions of dollars over the life of the
infrastructure versus other offerings.
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University of Maryland's new HPE Aruba
Networking solution will enable the flagship institution to
continue its tradition of global academic leadership while saving
millions of dollars over the life of the infrastructure versus
other offerings. (Source: University of Maryland)
With rising student, faculty, and staff expectations for
reliable, fast, and ubiquitous connectivity for the skyrocketing
number of mobile, connected, and IoT devices they use daily,1
higher education institutions like UMD are responding by
modernizing their networks. This includes solutions that enable
them to secure, centrally manage, and maximize the performance of
hundreds of thousands of endpoints, while minimizing costs and IT
overhead.
"Because our institution has committed to being the nation’s
first ‘Do Good’ campus, it’s imperative that we provide students,
faculty, researchers, and administrators with the tools and
technologies they need to achieve their goals for making a
difference in areas like climate change, sustainable development,
and global equity," said Axel Persaud, Assistant Vice President of
Enterprise Engineering for UMD. "That makes our new HPE Aruba
Networking infrastructure critical to supporting our campus
communities with world-class, always-on connectivity for today and
tomorrow."
Seeking a secure, centralized, policy-driven network that would
improve infrastructure visibility and application performance, UMD
decided to standardize on HPE Aruba Networking across its entire
footprint. “HPE Aruba Networking provided the best solution, which
included securely authenticating our current census of 80,000
endpoints and scaling into the future,” said Persaud. “Also, as the
solution is all-inclusive, rather than requiring additional
licensing or charging add-on costs for particular feature sets, it
saves us multi-millions over the life of the infrastructure.”
The deployed solution will include approximately 19,000 wireless
APs, including the latest generation of Wi-Fi 6E indoor APs. UMD
also plans to deploy high-performance Wi-Fi outdoors to facilitate
the growing interest in using green spaces for learning and to
support intramural and competitive athletics.
“Wi-Fi 6E future-proofs our network as we expect connectivity
demands will only intensify, including for accessing our
cloud-based platforms and applications such as our Amazon AWS
infrastructure and our Canvas student learning management system,”
Persaud said. "Operationally, we intend to expand wireless into
unconventional spaces, like mechanical rooms and rooftops, which
will enable our facilities managers to utilize IoT sensors and
mobile devices for making HVAC, lighting, and other building
systems smarter."
For wired networking, UMD is implementing HPE Aruba Networking
CX Series Switches, which will significantly improve bandwidth for
researchers handling massive data sets. It will also support the
adoption of new physical security and safety systems. "With respect
to research, we'll be boosting throughput up to 25 times, depending
upon the building," said Mark Addy, Executive Director of Systems
and Networking for UMD. "For physical security, our wired
deployment will support new, more granular systems, such as readers
for entering individual dorm rooms."
To unify, simplify, and secure wired and wireless connectivity,
UMD is also adopting HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises, for
AI-powered management, along with a combination of HPE Aruba
Networking ClearPass and Dynamic Segmentation for automated,
role-based security of wired and wireless endpoints and IoT
solutions.
"In addition to improving our cybersecurity posture for the tens
of thousands of devices that ClearPass authenticates daily, the
automation features within our new management tools enable us to
substantially reduce our IT overhead," Addy said. "For example, we
expect to cut our legacy VLANs by about 90%. Among the savings will
be refocusing the three full-time engineers who currently
administer VLANs manually onto higher-value projects, such as
enhancing the at-home network experience for residential students
and deploying a more seamless IoT adoption strategy."
Further, the institution is leveraging HPE Aruba Networking User
Experience Insight (UXI) to improve end-user experiences with
AI-powered monitoring and troubleshooting of application and
network performance issues. “For an outage on a distant agriculture
campus, UXI identified the problem and then proactively notified us
that the same issue was affecting another building, even though
users hadn’t yet reported it,” said Addy. “This enabled us to fix
both facilities, saving us from making a four-hour round-trip to
diagnose the problem on-site.”
The UMD IT staff is excited about the possibilities enabled by
HPE Aruba Networking. "Academically, having a high-performance
network that enables connecting any device a person wishes to bring
on campus is a competitive differentiator for attracting students,
faculty, and staff," Persaud said. "In IT, we've gained a true
partner that has already supplied us with better support than any
networking vendor we've worked with before."
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Sources:
Where the Tech Troubles Are, Inside Higher Education, October
31, 2022
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