- Innoventures Education deploys HPE Aruba Networking Central, boosting AI-powered, secure, always-on digital learning across its UAE campuses.
- The platform provides real-time visibility, anomaly detection, and automated fixes, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity for 9,000+ students and 1,500 staff.
- With strengthened Zero Trust security, BYOD management, and support for next-gen tools, Innoventures fortifies its vision for future-ready, innovation-driven digital campuses.
Innoventures Education, one of the UAE's leading private school groups, has further strengthened its digital learning ecosystem with the deployment of HPE Aruba Networking Central-an AI-powered, cloud-native network management platform. This marks a crucial step forward in the Group's endeavor to provide smarter, secure, and uninterrupted learning environments for its 9,000-plus students and 1,500 staff across its schools and early childhood centers.
Technology continues to anchor the vision of empowering future-ready learners as Innoventures Education expands with two new institutions, namely Dubai International Academy Town Square in Dubai and Raffles World Academy Aljada in Sharjah. The adoption of HPE Aruba Networking Central means that this group's digital infrastructure will evolve in tandem with its growing footprint, supporting the cornerstones of innovation, inclusivity, and excellence in education.
The deployment of HPE Aruba Networking Central has given Innoventures unparalleled visibility into its wired and wireless networks in real-time. Powered by the most advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, this provides anomaly detection, proactive identification of performance issues, and recommendations for automated fixes before disruptions occur. This proactive approach ensures that all the critical learning spaces-classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and activity centres-remain always connected and students and educators have nonstop access to learning resources.
Poonam Bhojani, the CEO of Innoventures Education, asserted that modern learning requires robust digital infrastructure. She added that the organization has always envisioned a long-standing goal of removing physical boundaries to learning, and now, with the advanced AI features of HPE Aruba Networking Central, potential network issues can be predicted and resolved before they affect teaching, which is crucial for sustaining seamless inquiry-based and collaborative learning experiences across campuses.
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With thousands of student and staff devices connecting day in and day out, Innoventures has continued to promote a very strong Bring Your Own Device culture. HPE Aruba Networking Central works hand in glove with ClearPass network access control, providing role-based security along with Zero Trust principles. This means every device, whether it is a school-issued laptop or the tablet of a student, connects securely with conformity to policies of the institution. The multilayered security approach strengthens trust and efficiency in operations when digital safety in academic settings is of prime importance.
The transition to a cloud-native management model has also smoothed operational pressures on the IT team. Central's AI-driven automation has reduced repetitive tasks, lowered the number of support tickets, and improved overall response times. These efficiencies contribute to the group's sustainability goals too, as network management operations consume less energy than ever before. Bhojani added that through the use of these capabilities, IT teams now spend less time troubleshooting and more time enabling innovation within classrooms.
Beyond operational efficiency, the platform enhances the group's ability to integrate next-generation tools like interactive panels, AR/VR applications, cloud-based collaboration platforms, and AI-supported teaching aids. This forms the backbone for immersive hybrid learning experiences and future-ready digital campuses.
Zeeshan Hadi, Business Head - UAE & Africa at HPE Aruba Networking, said that Innoventures truly showed its visionary leadership by being among the early adopters of the platform, showcasing ways in which AI and automation can be used to elevate educational settings. He further added that secure, seamless, and scalable connectivity is crucial in a digital-first world and that he's proud to support their mission to empower students and educators with transformative technology.
