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Aruba ESP transforms Children’s of Alabama’s digital and Wi-Fi experiences

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Ranked among the top pediatric medical centers in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s of Alabama provided care for youngsters from every county in Alabama last year, along with kids from 42 other states and seven foreign countries, altogether representing more than 677,000 outpatient visits and more than 15,000 inpatient admissions. With more than 2 million square feet, it is also one of the largest pediatric medical facilities in the U.S. 

Providing an exception to the hospital’s technological prowess was an outdated, poorly performing, and expensive network infrastructure. Aruba, partnering with Layer 3 Communications and ScanSource, delivered the Children’s team a new, multimillion-dollar network solution, all in less than 30 days from when the order was placed. This included a full Aruba ESP solution—Wi-Fi, CX Switching, UXI Sensors, CPPM, Remote Access Points, NetEdit, and High-Touch Services!

The list of upgrades the hospital needed—all of which were delivered by Aruba, Layer 3 Communications, and ScanSource—included:

  • Transforming the kids’ digital experience
  • Improving the employees’ Wi-Fi experience
  • Improving the employee work-from-home experience
  • Providing the best platform to support a new EMR system
  • Delivering a turnkey solution (design, deploy, rack, stack)
  • Enabling tight integration with Palo Alto Networks
One of the most powerful takeaways from this win is from Bob Sarnecki, CIO of Children’s of Alabama: “Success always leaves clues, and integrity builds relationships,” Sarnecki said. “I implicitly trust the belief your team has in Aruba. I have come to believe in it, too. It’s not a person or a product, it’s your culture: Customer First, Customer Last.”

 

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ScanSource is proud to distribute Aruba products and offer our value-added services. We are committed to working harder and smarter than any other distributor by equipping you with the tools, training, services, and inventory that you need to help you succeed! Aruba delivers a best-of-breed mobile experience to the new mobile generation. With its Mobility-Defined Networks, Aruba helps businesses solve some of their biggest mobility challenges and untether possibilities. It automates performance optimization and security actions that used to require IT intervention, so the network engineer can stop being the IT authority and become the IT ally.
 
 

Aruba delivers a best-of-breed mobile experience to the new mobile generation.


Founded in 2002 to liberate businesses from the last wire barriers, Aruba helps businesses engage #GenMobile with what they need, at the right time, no matter what the device or location.

Mobility-Defined Networks add controls with real-time data about users, devices, apps, and location. Self-healing and self-optimization functions dramatically reduce help desk tickets and protect enterprise data. Software that adds mobility intelligence makes Mobility-Defined Networks amazingly easy to deploy, without changing the existing infrastructure.

With Aruba, businesses can right-size their fixed network infrastructure, save IT time, slash capital and operating costs, and deliver the mobile experience that #GenMobile expects. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Aruba has offices throughout the Americas, Asia-Pacific/Japan, and Europe/Middle East/Africa regions. Aruba is listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000 Index.
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