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Aruba’s New All-in-One Cloud Services Controllers Let Businesses Light-Up Branch Offices Faster while Reducing Costs by up to 48%
Published Mar 4, 2015
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Aruba Networks, Inc. introduced an innovative branch office networking solution that collapses the complicated patchwork of branch appliances and access servers into a single, compact cloud services platform.
Aruba 7000 series Cloud Services Controllers eliminate the time, cost and complexity of managing disparate single-purpose point products in the branch, while enabling businesses to extract more value from existing cloud-based unified communication and firewall investments.
Growing legions of enterprise applications and services are migrating to public and private clouds because businesses can realize significant performance gains while saving up to 48%[1] per site – all while having centralized visibility and control across every branch location.
The Aruba 7000 series collapses a wide set of enterprise network capabilities into a single networking platform for the branch:
1. Zero-Touch Provisioning – Eliminates the time, cost and complexity of lighting-up branch office networks.
2. Triple the Resiliency – Supports two Ethernet broadband WAN connections and a 3G/4G LTE cellular back-up link for assured business continuity in virtually all conditions. Branches that use certificate-based 802.1X RADIUS with EAP-TLS get uninterrupted service even if RADIUS servers are unreachable.
3. Programmable Policy Enforcement Firewall – Delivers context-aware control to a variety of branch networking requirements, namely:
Web Content Filtering – Provides web content filtering to create contextual policies based on web site reputation.
Microsoft Lync Mobile Unified Communications – Automatically integrates with Lync Server 2013 SDN API and fingerprints hosted Lync Online traffic for a better user experience across the WAN.
Integration with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls – Automatically extends threat protection to every branch, for mobile devices and users by context, with no additional hardware or software.
Performance Gains for Cloud-based Applications – WAN optimization and application visibility and control with AppRF technology improve the performance of business-critical apps in the cloud.
Advanced Routing – Implements context-based routing across dual Ethernet WAN and LTE WAN links to preserve bandwidth for prioritized, business-critical traffic.
Get More Out of Existing Network Investments
Many enterprises have made significant investments in advanced security and communications solutions hosted in their data centers. Aruba leverages these investments by extending existing firewalls in the data center and unified communication solutions to branch offices.
“With Aruba’s Cloud Services Controller, customers that have already invested in Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls and GlobalProtect can now extend their security policies to every single branch location without additional complexity,” said Chad Kinzelberg, senior vice president of business and corporate development, Palo Alto Networks. “Aruba’s integration with Palo Alto Networks extends safe application enablement and threat prevention to branches.”
In addition to extending unified communication capabilities from the data center to the branch, Aruba has improved performance and visibility for Microsoft Lync with Lync SDN API certification.
“Reliably extending Lync unified communications to branch offices requires both applying Quality of Service to latency-sensitive voice and video calls, as well as giving IT end-to-end visibility into Lync services for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes,” said Giovanni Mezgec, general manager, Lync/Skype for Business, Microsoft. “Aruba’s Wi-Fi, switching, and SDN API solutions are Lync qualified, making them ideal for supporting hosted, on-premises, Lync Online, and Office 365 applications.”
“As organizations in the Middle East look to reduce complexity in their IT infrastructure, the Aruba 7000 series Cloud Services Controller will be invaluable in helping consolidate all required branch IT functions into a single, centrally-managed platform,” said Ammar Enaya, general manager of Aruba Networks Middle East. “This product offers significant performance and monetary gains besides the benefits of having centralized visibility and control across every branch location.”
Pricing and Availability
The Aruba 7000 Series Cloud Services Controller hardware is available today with all the services listed being delivered in the second quarter of 2015.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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