Institution bridges educational gaps with technology to reach
underserved, remote, and First Nations communities
To empower local communities with hands-on educational
opportunities, New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) uses
immersive technologies, including an ingenious Mobile Training
Center (MTC), to reach individuals in underserved, remote, and
First Nations areas. In support of its mission, NBCC is now
deploying a Wi-Fi 6E-enabled end-to-end AI-powered HPE Aruba
Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) solution by Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (NYSE: HPE).
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New Brunswick Community College's
ingenious Mobile Training Center (MTC). (Photo: Business Wire)
As one of the largest post-secondary educational institutions in
New Brunswick, Canada, the community college is modernizing its
networking infrastructure to support the education, training, and
microcredentials required to advance careers in healthcare, IT, and
skilled trades1. NBCC is implementing their new infrastructure
throughout its six campuses, spread across the 28,000-square-mile
province, that serve more than 10,000 students and 1,700
apprentices annually.
“We’re working to connect more learners with opportunities to
develop the skilled individuals that businesses need to grow and
compete,” said Simon Collier, Director of IT for NBCC. “Through the
innovative use of technology, tools, and spaces, NBCC is bridging
the gap between distance and education. Our high-performance,
secure, and reliable HPE Aruba Networking infrastructure is
critical for reaching students, regardless of where they live or
what the weather is like during our notoriously harsh winters.”
After evaluating networking options, NBCC determined that
adopting HPE Aruba Networking's Wi-Fi 6E-enabled AP-635 indoor
access points (APs) was the best choice for gaining future-ready
institutional infrastructure. “Adopting Wi-Fi 6E ensures we can
future-proof our network to power our cloud-first academic model,
which is essential for delivering hands-on and hybrid educational
experiences,” said Collier. “The cloud applications our Wi-Fi
supports range from academic tools, like D2L Brightspace and
Microsoft Teams, to administrative applications, such as Oracle
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.”
In addition to indoor APs, NBCC is also deploying HPE Aruba
Networking’s outdoor APs on the MTC, to supply community members
with mobile connectivity, and adopting remote access points (RAPs),
to provide its teleworkers with the same streamlined, reliable, and
secure access to institutional applications as if they were onsite.
For wired networking, NBCC is implementing HPE Aruba Networking’s
CX Series Switches.
“The MTC is just one example of how we’re bridging opportunity
gaps, no matter where a student learns, as the vehicle rapidly
transforms into 1,000-square-feet of reconfigurable course-specific
classroom space,” said Collier. “That's why we’re outfitting it
with the same robust Wi-Fi and wired infrastructure as on our
physical campuses, which ensures that students and instructors have
access to the cloud-delivered academic resources we’ve adopted.
This includes next-generation IoT and other technologies, such as
Microsoft HoloLens.”
By leveraging their HPE Aruba Networking APs as an IoT platform,
including the ability to perform IoT gateway functionality for
Bluetooth, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi enabled devices, NBCC can simplify the
deployment and management of current and future IoT
initiatives.
NBCC is also unifying, simplifying, and securing wired and
wireless administration using HPE Aruba Networking’s integrated
zero trust security capabilities by adopting HPE Aruba Networking
Central for AI-powered network 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.
This is enabling NBCC to securely deploy a wide-range of
connected technologies, such as large-format informational
displays, printers, smart lighting, door access solutions, security
cameras, HVAC systems, and wireless panic buttons for improving the
physical security of students, faculty, and staff. AI-powered
endpoint profiling using Client Insights within HPE Aruba
Networking Central ensures NBCC can easily identity any device that
connects to their network.
“Using HPE Aruba Networking Central, we not only gain the
unified wired and wireless management from a single, intuitive
interface, but also built-in features like AI Insights, which has
helped us locate the root cause of issues in minutes,” said Blair
Sawler, Manager of Infrastructure and IT Security for NBCC. “In
addition, streamlining security with HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass
has enabled us to decommission nearly 70% of our legacy access
control hardware, reducing cost and complexity.”
According to Sawler, the automation capabilities within HPE
Aruba Networking ClearPass and CX Switches have also eliminated
numerous hours of manual effort every month. “This helps us keep IT
overhead low and re-focus engineering time onto higher-value
projects, such as implementing our new ERP system, in support of
our ultimate purpose: student success,” he said.
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Sources:
1 Demand for skilled trades is soaring. So what's standing in
the way of more apprenticeships? CBC/Radio Canada, March 14,
2023
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