Case Studies

Ministry of Agriculture: Stable Wi-Fi for 550 Employees in a Listed Historic Building

Complete coverage of the facility and ensured operational continuity during the reconstruction of the cabling infrastructure.

About Project

Client:
Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)
Segment:
Public Administration
Size / Location
550 employees / Těšnov building, Prague 1
Solution Area:
Wireless Infrastructure (Wi-Fi)
Technology:
Modern Wi-Fi Infrastructure (HPE Aruba Networking)
Initial Situation

Challenge: A Historic Building with Infrastructure Constraints

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture is head­quar­tered in a mon­u­men­tal his­toric build­ing in Prague’s Těšnov dis­trict. One of the main chal­lenges was the build­ing itself. Dat­ing back to 1932 and pro­tect­ed as a cul­tur­al mon­u­ment, it placed sig­nif­i­cant con­straints on the imple­men­ta­tion of mod­ern net­work infra­struc­ture.

The exist­ing wire­less infra­struc­ture no longer met cur­rent require­ments for speed and secu­ri­ty. At the same time, an exten­sive recon­struc­tion of the building’s cabling infra­struc­ture was approach­ing, cre­at­ing a risk of con­nec­tiv­i­ty dis­rup­tions for hun­dreds of employ­ees.

In prac­tice, this meant lim­it­ed con­nec­tiv­i­ty in some parts of the build­ing and a poten­tial dis­rup­tion to the Ministry’s day-to-day oper­a­tions dur­ing the planned recon­struc­tion.

Results at a Glance

Complete Wi-Fi coverage throughout the historic building without compromising its interior, while ensuring full connectivity during the planned reconstruction of the wired network. 

Collaboration Objective

What was the objective of the collaboration?

The pri­ma­ry objec­tive was to pro­vide reli­able Wi-Fi cov­er­age through­out the entire Min­istry build­ing. The new wire­less net­work was designed to serve as a ful­ly capa­ble alter­na­tive to the exist­ing wired infra­struc­ture while also pro­vid­ing redun­dan­cy.

At the same time, the solution needed to:

  • pro­vide sta­ble con­nec­tiv­i­ty for hun­dreds of users through­out the build­ing
  • pre­pare the infra­struc­ture for the recon­struc­tion of the cabling sys­tem with­out dis­rupt­ing oper­a­tions
  • meet the tech­ni­cal, capac­i­ty and secu­ri­ty require­ments of a gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tion
  • accom­mo­date the spe­cif­ic con­straints of a list­ed his­toric build­ing
Proposed Solution

Solution: Aruba Architecture for High Availability

Based on the tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions, we designed a robust solu­tion built on HPE Aru­ba Net­work­ing tech­nolo­gies. The plat­form was select­ed for its high reli­a­bil­i­ty, advanced secu­ri­ty fea­tures and abil­i­ty to sup­port a high den­si­ty of users.

Key Elements of the Solution:

  • 2 high-per­for­mance gate­ways (HPE Aru­ba 9106 Cam­pus Gate­way) for cen­tral­ized man­age­ment and high avail­abil­i­ty
  • 281 access points (HPE Aru­ba AP-635) sup­port­ing Wi-Fi 6E for max­i­mum per­for­mance and through­put

The pro­posed archi­tec­ture pro­vides cen­tral­ized man­age­ment, high avail­abil­i­ty and net­work scal­a­bil­i­ty through the Aru­ba Cen­tral cloud man­age­ment plat­form.

Scope of Work

How was the project implemented?

Installing 281 access points through­out a five-storey his­toric build­ing required pre­cise coor­di­na­tion. Our tech­ni­cians had to car­ry out the instal­la­tion with­out com­pro­mis­ing the char­ac­ter of the list­ed build­ing.

Fol­low­ing the phys­i­cal instal­la­tion, we per­formed detailed con­fig­u­ra­tion and com­mis­sion­ing of the entire sys­tem. This was fol­lowed by com­pre­hen­sive sig­nal mea­sure­ments to ver­i­fy that the result­ing cov­er­age matched the orig­i­nal net­work design.

The project also includ­ed com­plete doc­u­men­ta­tion and five years of main­te­nance sup­port.

All work was carried out while the building remained fully operational, requiring careful coordination to minimize the impact on employees.
Results

A Stable Network Without Operational Disruption

Below is a brief overview of the key results achieved through the project.

Technical Results

  • 281 access points pro­vid­ing cov­er­age through­out the entire build­ing
  • 2 gate­ways ensur­ing high avail­abil­i­ty
  • a net­work opti­mized for oper­a­tion with­in a his­toric build­ing

Operational Impact

  • sta­ble and reli­able con­nec­tiv­i­ty for all employ­ees
  • elim­i­na­tion of the risk of con­nec­tiv­i­ty out­ages dur­ing recon­struc­tion
  • readi­ness to take over full net­work oper­a­tions from the wired infra­struc­ture when required

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