Hello Community.
I work for a small to medium University as the network admin. I'm sort of new to Aruba wireless networking. We had several complaints from the students about wireless on campus so we implemented a student technology fee that would give us some extra resources to address these issues. We had an Aruba 3600/3400 master/local set up with about 135 APs of different varieties. (105,124,125, 93H and 225) At the time we only had a 100mb connection for the wireless with approximately 750 to 800 devices accessing it simultaneously.
We have since upgraded the backbone of our network to 10gb links and replaced most of our access switches with Gigabit switches. We also bought a new controller running 6.5.3.2 code (7205) to replace the 3600/3400 master/local and replaced older APs (124s and 125s) with better APs that support AC WAVE 2. (225s,315s, 365s, and 367s) I am still hearing that students are complaining about speeds and connectivity.(Second hand of course because they won't put in helpdesk tickets but complain to the President and all the VPs)
We use two SSIDs, one faculty/Staff/student and an open guest. The faculty/Staff/student uses LDAP and AD to place the user on the proper VLAN after authentication. (student VLAN or corporate VLAN)
I've been to the Aruba Solution Exchange and found an RF Optimization and Deployment Model. https://ase.arubanetworks.com/solutions/id/75
It helps you to create profiles from cloning existing profiles but it's not much help to me because I don't fully understand the settings. If someone could help or guide me in the right direction, I would be greatly appreciative. I can also provide more data if necessary. Thanks. -Tony