Case Study: City of London Corporation achieves secure, unified networking and mobile transformation with HPE Aruba Networking

Unified Aruba network architecture underpins mobile innovation and smart management at City of London

The City of London Corporation — the local authority for the Square Mile — needed to modernize IT across 120 sites while consolidating Police and Corporation networks, rolling out Office365 to 4,000 users and supporting mobile working on a tight budget. The challenge was to deliver a single, secure network architecture that maintained clear separation and compliance with strict Home Office data-security standards, while giving managers granular visibility into who and how the network was being used.

The City deployed a unified Aruba solution (1,000+ 802.11ac APs, ~400 switches, mobility controllers, ClearPass and AirWave) to consolidate wired and wireless estates under a single vendor toolset. The result: consistent, high-performance connectivity enabling ~70% of staff to use mobile devices, stronger policy-based security and centralized access management, better network insight, new mobile services (fingerprint ID, stock control, reporting apps) and a culture of innovation with scope for future IoT and smart-building projects.

City of London Corporation

Sean Green

Director of IT