Enterprise Wi-Fi Networking

You are witnessing an increased adoption of mobile and IoT devices and the move toward collaborative digital workplaces, but is yout network infrastructure ready?

Design & Implementation

Requirements

Preliminary Desktop Design

Hardware & Software

Aruba campus switches are ready to meet the challenges of the mobile, cloud and IoT era where visibility, automation and security have become table stakes for survival. Aruba’s modern, programmable switches easily integrate with our network management solutions. These switches come with built-in security features and integrate with Aruba ClearPass for advanced policy management.

• Switch Network

  • Edge

    Aruba’s access switches provide a foundation for scalable, secure and high performance campus networks. Programmable ArubaOS-Switch software enable fast wireless aggregation and simplicity with unified role-based access. Aruba’s layer 3 switches are also capable of leveraging user and port-based traffic tunneling to apply policies, advanced services, and traffic encryption.

  • Core

    Aruba campus core and aggregation switches offer a flexible and innovative approach to dealing with new applications, security and scalability demands of the mobile-cloud and IoT era. Based on the new ArubaOS-CX, a modern software system for the core that automates and simplifies network tasks using built-in Python interpreter and REST APIs. These industry leading switches bring intelligence and automation to the core with full programmability and built-in Aruba Network Analytics Engine, giving network operators the ability to see more, know more, and act faster.

• Wireless Network

  • Access Points

    Aruba 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) and 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) access points deliver high performance wireless that exceeds the needs of any environment. Deployed as controller-managed (ArubaOS) or controllerless (InstantOS) APs depending on the design, scope and scale of your wireless network they offer flexibility and scale.

• Controllers and Gateways

  • Aruba 7000 Series Mobility Controllers enhance WLAN performance by centralising all control functionality for individual Aruba Access Points (APs) to improve AP utilisation, security and client roaming.

  • Aruba Mobility Master enables high scale and reliability. It serves a key role in Dynamc Segmentation, providing a single management layer for all controllers acting as policy enforcement agents.

Implementation

Verification

Network Access Control (NAC)

• Clearpass Device Insight

  ClearPass Device Insight addresses the most stringent visibility requirements for the most diverse network environments. This includes the ability to broadly and accurately identify all wireless and wired devices connected to the network - from traditional IT managed devices to previously undetected IoT devices such as cameras, medical equipment and other hard to detect endpoints. As a part of Aruba’s ClearPass family of industry-leading access control solutions, integration with ClearPass Policy Manager delivers comprehensive policy control and real time enforcement.

• Clearpass Policy Manager

  Provides role and device-based network access control for employees, contractors and guests across any multivendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure. With a built-in context-based policy engine, RADIUS, TACACS+, Non-RADIUS enforcement options, device profiling, posture assessment, onboarding, and guest access options, ClearPass is unrivaled as a foundation for network security in organizations of any size.

• Introspect

  IntroSpect User and Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) use AI-based machine learning to spot changes in user behavior that often indicate inside attacks that have evaded perimeter defenses. Security teams are armed with insights into malicious, compromised or negligent users, systems and devices – cutting off the threat before it does damage.

• The IntroSpect product family consists of Standard and Advanced editions:

  • IntroSpect Standard is a Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solution that focuses on finding threats in network traffic. Upgrading to the full UEBA + NTA solution is an easy license key update.

  • IntroSpect Advanced is an integrated UEBA + NTA solution that provides all the attack detection, incident investigation and attack detection capabilities that customers have come to rely on for the broadest protection available by combining both User and Entity Behavior Analytics and Network Traffic Analysis solutions.

Monitoring and Support

• Insight

  Uses analytics from a user’s perspective to proactively identify mission critical application and network service issues - before they impact users or the business. An on-prem sensor connects to multivendor APs, performs configured tests and highlights issues that can be viewed via a simple to use web dashboard. Supports internal and external tests to measure app and server responsiveness over Wi-Fi, wired and WAN.

• Airwave - on premises

  A multivendor network operations system for enterprise-grade wired and wireless infrastructure management and monitoring. Includes granular app, RF, and connectivity analytics with insight that allows for streamlined and centrally managed troubleshooting and controls.

• Central - cloud

  An intuitive, secure, and cost-effective multi-site management-as-a-service, for Aruba Instant access points, ArubaOS switches and SD-Branch Gateways. Includes app visibility and administration, as well as options for centrally managed guest access, presence and connectivity analytics.

• Helpdesk

  NetSpeed support services, tailored to