The All-Wireless Workplace

Aruba's adaptive wireless LAN and resilient Secure Enterprise Mesh technologies let you go where no wires have gone before, enabling converged data, voice, and video networks to be deployed or expanded without installing any new data wiring. For the first time, a platform is available on which a completely all-wireless workplace can be built, eliminating the cost and headaches associated with network cabling infrastructure. Key benefits include:

• Wire-free design eliminates Ethernet/fiber optic cabling costs
• Access points can be located and move where needed
• Reduces the need for core Ethernet ports

By sending information from location to location over an exclusively wireless network, client devices can be installed, moved, or changed quickly and easily as needed. Designed for business-critical applications in which highly reliable communications and client-to-core security are important, the mesh can reach locations that would be prohibitively expensive, if not impossible, to network using a wired solution.

Following best practices originally specified for military communication systems, data are encrypted end-to-end, from client to core, affording the greatest protection for network data, even if a mesh access point is stolen. Security policies are centrally managed from an Aruba Mobility Controller, which offers ultra-high bandwidth, capacity, and availability. The field-proven, 802.11n-ready controllers provide tight policy control and enforcement, simplify overall network management, scale to support the largest of enterprises, and provide fault tolerance when used with redundant controllers.

 

Secure Key Handling and Management Ensure the Integrity of Packets from End-to-End

Network resiliency and robustness are enhanced by the use of cooperative control and mesh cluster optimization. The cooperative control and mesh clustering features allow the wireless network to self-organize, determine the optimal path for communication to any given client, and self-heal in the event that a wireless path is blocked or a mesh access point fails. Taken together these features lower the time and costs associated with an initial deployment, and reduce life-cycle costs associated with adds/moves/changes, down time, and network maintenance.

 

Self-Healing Resiliency and Best-Path Routing Provide Reliable Operation Even Under Fault Conditions

Aruba's secure mobility architecture blurs the distinction between wired and wireless networks in terms of assured application delivery and security, while offering the mobility, productivity, and life-cycle cost benefits that come from a wire-free network.

The all-wireless workplace isn't a futuristic concept I with Aruba's user-centric network architecture you can cut the cord today.