Dynamic municipality leverages Wi-Fi 6E and AI-powered
networking to help build a vibrant civic life that attracts more
than 130 corporate headquarters while generating municipal
operations savings of up to 50 percent
Frequently topping ‘best places to live’ indexes, the City of
Carmel, Indiana, is continuing its focus on promoting quality of
life by modernizing its wired and wireless networking
infrastructure with a Wi-Fi 6E-enabled HPE Aruba Networking
solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE).
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The City of Carmel, Indiana is committed
to building out its smart city infrastructure, ranging from free
public Wi-Fi across 60 venues to public safety systems. Their
end-to-end wired and wireless deployment from HPE Aruba Networking
improves public and staff mobility in support of the city’s
thriving arts scene, numerous seasonal festivals, and other public
amenities that contribute to livability. (Source: City of Carmel,
Indiana)
The end-to-end wired and wireless deployment improves public and
staff mobility in support of the city’s thriving arts scene,
numerous seasonal festivals, and other public amenities that
contribute to livability and has attracted more than 130 corporate
headquarters to the area. In addition, the AI-powered intelligence
within the solution is generating municipal operations savings of
up to 50 percent.
“With mobility essential to modern life experiences, our
municipality is dedicated to supplying exceptional connectivity for
staff and community across indoor and outdoor spaces,” said Morgan
Rinehart, Network Administrator for the City of Carmel, Indiana.
“Whether its public Wi-Fi, enterprise mobility, IoT-enabled
solutions, or other connected technologies, having the fast,
secure, and reliable unified access delivered by HPE Aruba
Networking is key to fulfilling our role.”
Smart city supports outdoor activities year-round
The City of Carmel is also committed to building out its smart
city infrastructure, ranging from free public Wi-Fi across 60
venues to public safety systems. These efforts are critical to
ongoing public service innovations, such as hosting year around
indoor and outdoor activities that encourage resident and visitor
wellbeing.
This includes a massive outdoor skating rink in its city center
that is a popular winter destination and compliments shopping,
dining, arts, and other surrounding entertainment options. The city
also provides free public parking garages 24/7, which contributes
to its goals for limiting sprawl by encouraging core population
density.
“Innovative municipalities dedicated to providing indoor and
outdoor services, regardless of the weather, require networking
infrastructure engineered for environmental extremes,” said Stuart
Strickland, wireless chief technology officer at HPE Aruba
Networking. “Whether its gaining real-time event attendance
insights, making staffing adjustments during festivals, or enabling
the public to stream high-definition video to family and friends,
high-performance intelligent Wi-Fi and wired networking enables the
City of Carmel to deliver the exceptional smart city services that
support a strong sense of community.”
AI-powered, secure, and scalable
To answer the mobile and IoT data traffic demands that accompany
smart city deployments, while minimizing operating overhead, the
City of Carmel adopted an AI-powered wired and wireless solution
that includes the latest generation of outdoor Wi-Fi for over 95
acres of exterior spaces and Wi-Fi 6E for over a quarter million
square feet of indoor facilities.
Supported by automated and streamlined CX Switching wired
infrastructure, the city’s network is unified and managed with HPE
Aruba Networking Central, which streamlines and simplifies
administration, along with HPE Aruba Networking User Experience
Insight (UXI), which proactively uncovers service degradations by
testing end-to-end user device to network to application
connectivity, before they impact experiences.
For securing its new unified network, the City worked with local
partner Laketec to deploy HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass, for
built-in zero trust and secure access service edge (SASE)
cybersecurity, and implemented HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass
Device Insight, for AI-powered intelligent device discovery and
profiling. The city also rolled out Dynamic Segmentation, which
combines with ClearPass and CX Switching to provide least privilege
access to applications and data.
Future-ready and cost-effective
With its new infrastructure the City of Carmel is providing
connectivity that boosts the productivity of municipal staff as
well as supporting premier public amenities such as the Carmel
Christkindlmarkt, which is considered the top holiday market in the
U.S., drawing visitors worldwide.
“In addition to positive feedback on the free connectivity, our
new Wi-Fi 6E gets high marks internally,” said Rinehart. “This
includes law enforcement and public safety staff, who report a 66
percent reduction in the time required to upload body cam, drone
footage, and other video media daily.”
For IT, network intelligence has reduced deployment labor costs
30 percent, cut device configuration time 50 percent, and slashed
troubleshooting time-to-resolution by another 50 percent. This has
enabled the city to re-focus IT resources on higher-value
initiatives, Rinehart said.
Moving forward, the city’s IT staff is ready for whatever comes
next. “HPE Aruba Networking has been a great partner,” Rinehart
said. “Our new network is helping us make our city smarter, safer,
and more efficient overall.”
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