Aruba Networks™ is a leading provider of next—generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company designs and delivers Mobility—Defined Networks that empower IT departments and #GenMobile, a new generation of tech—savvy users who rely on their mobile devices for every aspect of work and personal communication. Help your business engage #GenMobile with exactly what they need, at exactly the right time, no matter what the device or location. Aruba mobility defined networks. With Aruba’s Mobility Defined Networks, you can automate performance optimization and security actions that used to require IT intervention, so your network engineer can stop being the IT authority and become the IT ally. Today’s business runs on mobile and cloud apps and Aruba has the backbone to support them. Everyone gets a reliable Wi—Fi connection to stay productive, while you reduce downtime, cut IT costs and strengthen security as your business grows. Mobility controllers—Aruba Mobility Controllers™ offer centralized network engineering, IP services, security and policy controls, and app—aware platforms. In addition to network control, they can be deployed as branch gateways, VPN concentrators, WIPS/WIDS and spectrum monitors, and stateful network firewalls with integrated content filtering.

Small and medium businesses. Empower your business. Today’s business runs on mobile and cloud apps and Aruba Networks™ has the backbone to support them. Everyone gets a reliable Wi—Fi connection to stay productive, while you reduce downtime, cut IT costs, and strengthen security as your business grows. Simple, yet powerful. Aruba Instant comes with automatic RF management that ensures the strongest Wi—Fi connection for all mobile devices. And granular visibility into mobile apps prioritizes business—critical data, and keeps out the malicious content. Cloud networking—Aruba Central™—Aruba Central manages, monitors and secures wired, Wi—Fi and wide area networks from the public cloud. Thanks to its multi—tenant operation, it enables Aruba and end users to support multiple disparate networks from a single location. Core switches and routers—the HPE FlexNetwork™ portfolio for core, aggregation, and routing enables IT to deliver the maximum performance and value to organizations across all verticals. Remote access points—Aruba Networks™ remote access points extend the same corporate user experience to small branch and remote sites with a solution that’s easy to deploy and manage. They come preconfigured, so employees simply plug—in to any existing Internet connection and they’re ready to go.

Aruba Networks Analytics And Location Engine

Location based services—Aruba Meridian™—Aruba Meridian enables location—based services powered by Aruba Networks Beacons™. With wayfinding built into your Aruba Networks Meridian™—powered mobile app and Aruba Networks Beacons™ hardware, you can guide guests with real—time, indoor navigation to nearby amenities, products or points of interest. Location sharing among the users of a mobile app can now also be powered by Meridian. Network analytics—Analytics And Location Engine (ALE)—with Meridian, business leaders can get access to beacon powered presence analytics and success rate of pre—defined goals. The new Aruba Networks Meridian Goals™ brings a greater level of insights about user engagement, going beyond simple monitoring of beacon analytics for dwell times at a specific location. Network controls—Arubsos™—the most important part of the Mobile First Platform is Aruba Networks ArubaOS™ 8.0. It is designed to primarily support enterprise wireless connectivity with hitless fail over, in—service upgrades, and more. It can be deployed as a virtual machine (VM) on a server appliance to manage controller—based wireless LANs, significantly easing the consumption model.

Mobility Products

Access points—Aruba Networks™ 802.11ac wireless access points deliver superb Wi—Fi performance — they can be deployed as controller—managed or controllerless Aruba Networks Instant APs™ depending on the design, scope and scale of your wireless network. And Aruba Networks™ newest Wave 2 APs deliver fast 11ac speeds with a HPE Smart Rate™ multi—gig up link to boost network performance in high—density environments. These industry—leading switches are scalable, secure, and feature HPE Smart Rate multi—gigabit ports for high—speed connectivity. Beacons and sensor—when Aruba Networks Beacons™ are used with Aruba Networks Meridian™ apps, they enable public—facing enterprises to infuse their mobile apps with innovative, location—based services that create a more personalized customer experience. The Aruba Networks Sensor™, a small, dual—band 802.11n client radio and a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio, makes it easy for IT to turn a mobile engagement proof—of—concept into a multi—location deployment by pulling beacon data into one centralized location.

Access switches—Aruba Networks™ switches bring performance and reliability to the mobile—first campus. ArubaOS 8.0 is developer—ready and can share contextual information about mobile and IoT devices via its northbound API. Network management—Aruba Airwave™—with Aruba Networks AirWave™, you can centrally manage controller—based and controllerless wireless networks and generations of wired networks from just about any vendor. With granular visibility on mobile device and app health, Aruba Networks AirWave™ lets IT operations focus on proactively optimizing performance and heading off problems before they occur. Policy management—Aruba Clearpass™—policy management for mobile and IoT are delivered via Aruba ClearPass across any wired or wireless multi-vendor network. ClearPass replaces outdated legacy AAA with context-aware policies. It easily integrates with cloud—based IT applications and security services and shares contextual policy information, thanks to the new ClearPass Extensions.

Features And Benefits

Aruba is in the midst of a massive transition away from networking technologies that were designed for the 20th century when mobile, IoT and cloud did not exist. The surge in mobile and IoT means that the wired and wireless network must deliver more than just connectivity—the network is expected to provide actionable insights about the use of mobile and IoT to justify future investments, so that businesses can adopt new technologies and serve the needs of GenMobile—while keeping the network secure and without breaking the budget. Cloud networking—Aruba Central™—Aruba Central manages, monitors and secures wired, Wi—Fi and wide area networks from the public cloud. Thanks to its multi—tenant operation, it enables Aruba and end users to support multiple disparate networks from a single location. Aruba Networks Mobile First Networks™ are optimized for today’s enterprise and SMB environments where mobile and IoT are pervasive. Aruba Mobile First Platform™ is the software layer between the Aruba™ network infrastructure and is designed to share rich, contextual insights with third—party business, IT and end—user facing applications.