Aruba is the global leader in distributed enterprise networks. Its award-winning portfolio of campus, branch/teleworker, and mobile solutions simplify operations and secure access to all corporate applications and services – regardless of the user's device, location, or network. This dramatically improves productivity and lowers capital and operational costs.
In order to meet the demands of the increasingly distributed, mobile workforce, IT organizations must take a user-centric approach to their network access infrastructure. This approach follows and secures users wherever they are, instead investing more time and expense in port-centric architectures to connect users with the enterprise.
With Aruba's user-centric architecture, IT administrators provide users with a simple, consistent way to access corporate resources regardless of their location, device or connectivity method. Access to corporate resources is provided on a per-user basis, across wired and wireless LANs, without compromising security.
aRUBA nETWORK’S VALUE PROPOSITION
Reduce Costs: Significantly reduce hardware footprint and operating expenses. Right-size the cost of networking in small branch offices by eliminating the need for expensive appliances.
Superior Network Solutions: Access enterprise-class services securely from branch offices. Virtually no IT intervention is required - resulting in unparalleled scale without compromising security. Role based access/device based access. Integrated WIP/WID. Best radio management features/performance. Great troubleshooting/audit reporting. Integrated VPN like services. PCI compliance for retailers.
Increase Productivity: Reduce mulitple independent systems, configured and managed separately down to a single, centralized management system that controls all user and equipment configuration and policies.
aRUBA NETWORK SOLUTION COMPONENTS
Network Management: IT administrators today are relying on disparate systems for wired and wireless network management, even if there is a single vendor providing network infrastructure. Such disparate solutions deliver limited information about the health of a user's network connectivity and fail to provide per user visibility for rapid monitoring and troubleshooting. In addition, IT administrators are forced to rely on custom built in-house tools in order to ensure ease of use and scalability.
Aruba's AirWave Wireless Management Suite™ (AWMS) software is industry's only multivendor wired and wireless network management system that is purposely designed to overcome these challenges. AirWave integrates real time monitoring, customized reporting, network infrastructure configuration, location based services, compliance reporting. AirWave software architecture enables management of up to 100K devices from a single interface – and it manages world's largest networks of all the major wireless LAN vendors. Intuitive user interface design and customized views for network engineering, help desk, security operations, and executive management allows AirWave to be used by any member of the IT organization.
Campus Mobility: Experience uninterrupted voice and high-definition video even when faced with a mix of devices and applications in a crowded campus environment. Aruba provides a new class of 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) that is designed for application performance.
Other Wi-Fi solutions are challenged with meeting throughput and latency requirements when faced with an onslaught of mobile devices and unpredictable RF. But Aruba's Multimedia-Grade Wi-Fi is architected to minimize the effects of these challenges allowing wireless to be the primary connection across data, voice and video applications.
Mobile Unified Communications: Today's workforce expects the same communications capabilities whether on campus or off. Extending unified communications capabilities – audio and video conferencing, telepresence and voice over IP (VoIP) – to smartphones and mobile devices is the key to maintaining productivity for these nomadic workers.
Mobile unified communications is fast becoming essential, and businesses can be confident that Aruba's application-aware WLAN capabilities will ensure an exceptionally productive and efficient user experience.
Outdoor Mesh Networks: Aruba wireless mesh networks allow outdoor environments to be interconnected without the cost and hassle of wiring and with the capacity and reliability of a wired network. Solving a wide range of communications challenges across challenging outdoor environments, they are the perfect solution for municipalities, public safety agencies, port authorities, industrial enterprises, transportation agencies and service providers.
The Aruba multiservice mesh network provides a flexible wireless infrastructure that supports multiple user groups and multiple applications, such as large-scale outdoor Wi-Fi access and mobility, and high-speed connectivity for video surveillance cameras, monitoring systems, automatic meter reading, and more.
Guest Access: Facilitate a productive environment for your contractors, partners and visitors with guest internet access on your premises. Aruba securely delivers wireless and wired guest access on the same WLAN and LAN infrastructure carrying internal traffic. Aruba's identity-based security separates internal and guest traffic to provide iron-clad security for the organization's LAN and servers.
Public Safety: Supporting secure, standards-based 2.4-, 5- and 4.9-GHz client access and mesh backhaul, Aruba outdoor wireless mesh networks provide a resilient, dependable communications infrastructure for public safety agencies and emergency response teams.
Remote Access: Traditionally, IPSec or SSL VPN solutions have been deployed to serve remote users, proving to be both costly and complex to manage. For organizations that have deployed Aruba's campus or branch solutions, a better alternative exists – and at no additional cost.
Aruba Mobility Controllers include hardware-accelerated VPN concentrator functionality that integrates existing remote users into Aruba's role-based security framework, virtualizing network access for remote workers. The result is a single point of policy management for users anywhere on the network – campus, branch office or on the road.
