Case Study: Hoosic Valley Central School District achieves unified, future-proof campus networking and 50% lower support costs with HPE Aruba Networking

CDW-G, HP and Aruba deliver unified networking with performance scalability and availability at the right price

Hoosic Valley Central School District in New York faced an aging, decade-old Cisco network that couldn’t reliably support more than 1,000 students and staff, new Chromebooks, eLearning, streaming media and an eventual BYOD rollout across three buildings. With limited budget and the need to integrate existing telephony while future-proofing for a 10Gb (and beyond) backbone, the district asked CDW‑G to design a scalable, cost-effective replacement.

CDW‑G delivered an HP Networking and Aruba solution—HP 2920/3800 switches, HP ProLiant servers, Aruba Instant 802.11ac APs and Aruba AirWave management—providing 10Gb campus backbone, 1Gb to desktops, zero-touch AP deployment and single-pane-of-glass management. The upgrade yielded seamless cross‑campus roaming and streaming, faster connections, halved network support costs, no downtime during deployment, consolidated wiring closets, higher user satisfaction and a future‑proofed infrastructure that reduced the burden on taxpayers.

Hoosic Valley Central School District

Jeffrey Hoag

Systems Administrator