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Hughes Corporation Selects Aruba Edge Services

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced that The Howard Hughes Corporation has selected an Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP)-based network to supply connectivity experiences at communities including Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Bridgeland in Cypress, Texas.

“We’re constantly exploring new ways to give truly meaningful and high-quality experiences to our customers, residents, and guests,” said Bobby Aflatooni, executive vice president of technology and innovation for Hughes. “Aruba’s technology is a key piece of the equation for providing convenient, mobile-first environments throughout our communities.”

Howard Hughes wanted a networking infrastructure solution that was reliable, secure, scalable and cloud-centric to ensure streamlined and proactive management, Aruba said. Additionally, the company sought a Wi-Fi calling solution to enhance its service and feature offerings in a more cost-effective manner than with legacy cellular distributed antenna system (DAS) technologies. To do so, Howard Hughes is deploying Aruba access points (APs), for wired access and aggregation. The solution also includes Aruba Central for cloud-native management featuring Aruba AIOps, which can automatically detect and dynamically resolve issues anywhere in the network before users even notice. The company also is adopting Aruba Air Pass for wi-fi calling.

Overall, the company will use its new Aruba solution to efficiently and effectively provide wi-fi-as-a-service experiences. This includes relying on Aruba Central for managing the infrastructure from its Houston, Texas, headquarters as well as any remote location, including WFH offices. With Central’s intuitive dashboard, the company’s IT staff can quickly and easily segregate traffic by region, geography and property management type.

In addition, Howard Hughes is able to leverage the automation and programmability within Aruba CX Switches to create a high-performance, self-healing wired network that supports its Wi-Fi. Powered by the microservices-based AOS-CX operating system, the platform includes the Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.

The adoption of Aruba ClearPass will allow Howard Hughes to enhance its security platform with secure network access control, the company continued. ClearPass provides agentless visibility and dynamic role-based connectivity for security enforcement and automated response across wired and wireless networks.