The University of Maryland (UMD) recently chose the HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) networking solution by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The new 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.
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.