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Aruba Networks (News - Alert) has announced that the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has deployed its adaptive wireless LANs throughout its Gombak and Kuatan campuses.

 

Aruba-authorized business partner Transition Malaysia installed the new network, providing “pervasive” wireless coverage across both campuses.

 

“The university's legacy wireless network served only selected areas of the two campuses, and used stand-alone access points, also called Fat APs, with limited guest access, complex management requirements, and no expansion capabilities,” said Dr. Ahmad Unggul, deputy director of ITD at IIUM.

 

He explained that to meet both current and projected network demand, a reliable, centrally-managed, campus-wide network was needed—one that offered comprehensive guest access provisions, and supported data, video, and voice applications.

 

Engr. Jaiz Anuar Yeop Johari, project Manager of Wide Wireless Project for IIUM Campus, said the University selected Aruba for the project because their network management architecture can manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and update all of the university's 765 access points from IIUM's Gombak and Kuantan data centers.

 

“Centralized management minimizes our IT costs by avoiding the need to dispatch staff for routine support and maintenance tasks,” he said, adding that overhead is further reduced by Aruba's identity-based security, which enables access privileges to be based on a user's role.

 

“Our staff can now easily define roles for students, faculty, guests, and contractors, and know with confidence that access privileges will be enforced uniformly across all of our facilities,” Johari said.

 

By integrating adaptive wireless LANs, identity-based security, application continuity services, Aruba’s unified mobility solutions deliver networks to users.

 

Company officials said that adaptive wireless LANs deliver “follow-me” connectivity to roaming users, along with supporting standard Wi-Fi clients, and deliver data, voice, and streaming video applications.

 

“Many universities throughout the Asia Pacific region want to replace their aging Fat AP networks with state-of-the-art Wi-Fi solutions that are more easily managed and support multimedia applications,” noted Mike Guo, vice president of Asia Pacific at Aruba.

 

He also said that IIUM is a “textbook example” of how a campus-wide infrastructure upgrade can support new learning initiatives without burdening the IT organization with additional overhead.

 

 

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