'French engineering school deploys Aruba WLANs at 10 sites'

US WLAN and secure mobility solutions company Aruba Networks was chosen by French engineering university Arts et Metiers ParisTech at its campuses in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Bordeaux, Chalons-en-Champagne, Chalons-sur-Saone, Chambery, Cluny, Lille and Metz. Aruba partner Bluesafe deployed the WLANs used by students, faculty and staff to access network resources and by visitors to connect to the internet. Thanks to Aruba's integrated firewall, users' access rights are applied at all campuses with locally defined policies enforced on a per-user, per-application basis at each site. Security is ensured by strong WPA encryption. Each campus is equipped with an Aruba Multi-Service Mobility Controller and wireless access points, while one smaller remote site is networked using Aruba's Remote Access Point technology. Additionally, the new Aruba networks interoperate with the Eduroam authentication service, a secure international roaming service for European research and educational institutions. The Eduroam network interconnects the Radius authentication servers of its member establishments both nationally and internationally, enabling traveling scholars to connect to the network of other member schools using their own identification information and without establishing a visitor account.

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