Case Study: Banaras Hindu University achieves seamless e‑learning for 30,000 students with HPE Aruba Networking

Banaras Hindu University enhances e-Learning for 30,000 students with seamless Wi-Fi

Banaras Hindu University (est. 1916) is a large, multi‑campus institution with about 30,000 students and 2,500 faculty spread over 1,300 acres. The university needed an enterprise‑class indoor and outdoor Wi‑Fi infrastructure to provide high‑bandwidth, layer‑3 roaming across academic buildings, administrative areas and hostels, support voice and video for e‑learning, enable BYOD and eduroam access, and centrally secure and manage wired and wireless policies.

BHU deployed Aruba indoor and outdoor Wi‑Fi and switching, ClearPass for authentication and policy enforcement, and AirWave for network management. The result was seamless campus connectivity with reliable roaming, reduced IT management workload, simplified and secure BYOD and guest access (including visitors from 70,000+ eduroam institutions), elimination of connectivity interruptions, and accelerated access to e‑learning platforms like SWAYAM.

Banaras Hindu University

Vivek Singh

Professor (Computer Science) and Director of Bhu Computer Centre