Case Study: Ayrshire College achieves secure, campus-wide wireless and smarter learning with HPE Aruba Networking

Aruba delivers robust platform for educational excellence

Ayrshire College, serving over 12,000 students across multiple campuses, rebuilt its Kilmarnock site to remove location- and device-based barriers to learning. The ICT team wanted to supply and control end-point devices (thin clients in classrooms and 400 mobile laptops) and deliver a secure, high-performance wireless network that would support modern, flexible teaching without relying on students’ own devices.

The college deployed a blended HPE/Aruba solution—Citrix virtual desktops backed by HPE Moonshot servers and 3PAR storage, 89 Aruba 802.11ac Wave 2 APs, Aruba 2930F switches, ClearPass policy manager and AirWave monitoring, on a 10Gb backbone. Implemented over the summer, the platform delivered seamless indoor/outdoor Wi‑Fi, centralized single-pane management, segmented secure access for students, staff and guests, halved troubleshooting time, improved user experience (faster client startup and application performance) and positioned Ayrshire as a sector leader with plans to extend the rollout.

Ayrshire College

Brad Johnstone

Head of ICT