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Brocade Launches ‘Open Mobility Solutions Program’ Offering Customers a Unified Wired and Wireless Experience
Published Oct 7, 2015
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Brocade introduced its Open Mobility Solutions Program designed to deliver a best-in-class wired foundation for wireless networks and to optimize customers’ campus network environments. Brocade has collaborated with leading wireless networking vendors Aruba, Aerohive and Ruckus to integrate the Brocade ICX® switches with their solutions and provide customers a seamless and unified wired and wireless experience. This initiative addresses the need for advanced future-proof capabilities to support growth and new technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Ubiquitous mobile devices have fast-tracked the open mobility technology known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). They’ve made wireless networks more important than ever. But these advances come with a caveat. Even if the enterprise has recently implemented or upgraded the wireless network, new gear will be required in less than three years on account of the fast pace of change of wireless technology. Wired networks, on the other hand, have a longer lifespan. Many of today’s switches boast scalability features that offer seven to ten years of top-notch service. Because wireless networks depend on the wired infrastructure to deliver on their performance and reliability potential, those numbers are important. They mean that a wired network must support several generations of wireless networks. Which is best accomplished with a highly scalable, open, standards-based wired network infrastructure.
Yarob Sakhnini, regional director, MEMA at Brocade says, “An open, scalable wired network can help the enterprise stay at the top of the wireless game—while maintaining a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Open gives you multiple options for upgrading your wireless network as vendors leapfrog each other with best-of-breed solutions. Scalability lets you meet the exploding capacity and performance demands of the wireless world. Conversely, proprietary hardware gives you a different set of choices. You can forego upgrading your wireless capabilities until you’re ready to invest in new wired infrastructure. Or you can undertake expensive upgrades on a viable wired network to capitalize on new wireless advances. We recommend the open approach. And we enhance it with cost-effective, easy-to-use, incremental scalability options that make it work for the long term.”
Brocade pioneered the best-in-class unified wired and wireless approach with Aruba Networks based on an open and interoperable framework, and the Open Mobility Solutions Program has now expanded to a broader set of partners - Aerohive and Ruckus. To help ensure compatibility, Brocade has recently completed third-party certification testing with Aerohive, Aruba, and Ruckus. Not only are the joint solutions tested to ensure interoperability, but integration between Brocade products and wireless products allows customers to unify the management and security of their wired and wireless networks. In addition, unified technical support provides a single point of contact for questions or problem resolution.
By working closely with Aerohive, Aruba, and Ruckus, Brocade delivers a unified customer experience through:
Joint engineering to provide solutions such as management tools and security policies for wired/wireless networks, delivering operational simplicity and a consistent user experience. The solutions Brocade offers with its partners are as tightly integrated as those from any single-vendor offering, without the vendor lock-in.
Flexible financing with Brocade Network Subscription for wireless networks and Brocade wired networks maximizes budget flexibility and procurement simplicity.
Unified technical support with Brocade wireless partners enables faster time to recovery and eliminates the finger-pointing associated with many multivendor solutions.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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