Case Study: PACE Education achieves secure, campus-wide digital learning for 11,000 students with HPE Aruba Networking

Data-driven granular network usage enables PACE Education to transform school experience

PACE Education is a mid-market school group in the UAE that serves diverse communities with affordable tuition and a digital-first vision. Facing the challenge of delivering modern, consistent learning experiences across multiple campuses without ballooning costs, PACE focused on change management—standardizing infrastructure so teachers, students and operations could adopt new digital teaching methods quickly and uniformly.

PACE deployed an HPE Aruba networking stack (Wi‑Fi 6 access points, ClearPass, Aruba Central and AIOps) across five UAE schools to create a mobile-first, campus‑wide network supporting 11,000 students. Centralized, single‑pane management and granular access policies gave the two-person network team real‑time visibility, faster troubleshooting, stronger security and the ability to benchmark activity against educational outcomes—unlocking operational efficiencies and a more engaging, measurable learning environment.