Performance Analysis of Aruba™ Wireless Local Area Network Lampung University

Information Technology has become the catalyst for growth at Lampung University, there were over 25,000 students, 1,300 lecturer, and 645 academic staff should be provided with adequate network capacity in order for enhancing learning, research activity, and other academic use. IT units already developed wireless infrastructure using Aruba Technology since March 2014 to served them. 100 units Aruba series AP-135 and 30 AP-175 already installed on 95 buildings. Wireless Network Controller, Airwave, and Clear Pass as a part of Aruba Mobility-Defined Networks Architecture technology also developed. This paper introduce a wireless performance analysis based on airwave reporting application, with 1 year of data report we investigated network activity on each Aruba AP such; usage average, clients average, top applications and destinations, client device inventory. The result of this study shown 3 busiest and high load AP; 1). FT Kimia Lt1 with 55 average clients and 6.694 Mbps average usage, 2). FKIP G Outdoor with 41 average clients and 4.4 Mbps average usage, 3). GSG A 969 with 37 average clients and 2.439 Mbps average usage. Maximum concurrent client connected to Aruba AP was 2,647 was held on November 2014. Top application and its data consumed during 2 weeks investigation was; 1). Sys-svc-http with 2.31 TB, 2). Svc-smb-udp with 1,59 TB, 3). Svc-https with 390 GB, 4). Facebook with: 172 GB. Top 5 Operating System used by users device was; Android, Win 7, Iphone, Blackberry, Win 8.