Case Study: Think About IT achieves workplace mobility and a smart-building showcase with HPE Aruba Networking

High performance network enables workplace dynamism for German IT services provider – and creates showroom for innovation

Think About IT, a rapidly growing German IT services provider, built a new head office in Bochum to support workplace mobility and to showcase smart‑building management while centralising network management and security across seven locations. The company needed a unified LAN/WLAN architecture that would enable hybrid working, simplify operations and create a platform for digital innovation and customer demonstrations.

The firm deployed an Aruba-based stack—SD‑Branch, Aruba Central cloud management, ClearPass for policy and NAC, Wi‑Fi 6 access points, CX switches, gateways and UXI sensors—to deliver a single, scalable wired/wireless infrastructure. The results: zero‑touch provisioning and configuration times reduced from days to minutes, holistic multi‑site visibility and management, full workplace mobility and hybrid work enablement, easier roll‑out of location and asset services, and a flexible showroom for smart‑building solutions that supports future growth.

Think About IT

Jan-Hendrik Abels

Chief Technology Officer