University of Tokyo Upgrades Wireless Network with Aruba’s Adaptive 802.11n Wireless Solution
University of Tokyo Upgrades to Aruba Networks’ Adaptive 802.11n and Airwave Wireless Management Solution
School of Science Deployment Highlights the Benefits of Adaptive Radio Management
Aruba Networks, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ARUN – News), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that the University of Tokyo is upgrading the wireless network at the School of Science on its main Hongo Bunkyo-ku campus with Aruba’s adaptive 802.11n wireless solution. Established in 1877, the University of Tokyo has more than 4,000 faculty and staff, and a total enrollment of approximately 29,000 students. Aruba was selected for the project after the company’s Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology was proven to offer superior performance, scalability, and legacy client support compared to single channel and other architectures that were reviewed. The completed system will include Aruba’s MMC-6000 Mobility Controller, 300 access points, and the AirWave Wireless Management Suite.
“Over the past year 802.11n technology has become a de facto standard, and the time was right for the university to move to this high speed technology,” said Junji Tamatsukuri, University of Tokyo’s IT System team leader. “The School of Science is an ideal deployment because it encompasses multiple buildings, such as Koshiba Hall — named after Nobel laureate Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba — that are challenging RF environments for which 802.11n is well suited. Our side-by-side comparison of available 802.11n solutions, both from Aruba, our incumbent supplier, and other vendors, quickly focused our attention on the benefits of ARM technology. ARM offers predictable performance, automatic and continuous network optimization, and backward compatibility with existing clients. Other 802.11n architectures and vendors that we investigated simply could not match the features and benefits of Aruba’s solution.”
Aruba’s ARM technology lowers Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance costs by automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time. Acting on their own, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi clients are not designed to work cooperatively with one another, or select the optimal band, channel, or access point. These issues are exacerbated in settings with densely packed users, such as Koshiba Hall’s lecture theatres. ARM controls how Wi-Fi clients interact in these settings, helping to ensure that data, voice, and video applications have sufficient network resources to operate properly. The result is a better wireless experience for faculty and students alike.
“802.11n clients and infrastructure simply work better with ARM because it overcomes everyday impediments commonly found in a university setting,” said Hiromi Komiya, Aruba’s managing director for Japan. “For example, ARM improves the performance of newer 802.11n laptops operating in close proximity with older 802.11a/b/g devices, a situation commonly found in lecture halls. ARM will also automatically shift students’ 802.11n-capable laptops into the quieter 5GHz band where they can run faster than in the noisy 2.4GHz band. Recent tests demonstrate that ARM can boost 802.11n performance by over 200% without any changes or software additions to the client devices. Results like this are what make Aruba’s 802.11n solution so compelling to customers like the University of Tokyo.”
Additional information on Aruba’s line of 802.11n access points can be found on-line at http://www.arubanetworks.com/products/access-points/ap-120family.php. A free Farpoint Group white paper on ARM titled “Advances In Wireless Infrastructure Control” can be downloaded from Aruba’s Web site at www.arubanetworks.com/arm2.0.
About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our mobility solutions enable the Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:
-- Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure
that users are always within reach of mission-critical information;
-- Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing
those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
-- Remote networking solutions ensure uninterrupted access to
applications as users move;
-- Multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control
while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from Aruba and its
competitors.
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