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AI-powered Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) & ArubaOS8

for Today’s Digital Era

Vincent Chow | Solutions ArchitectHong Kong & Macau

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

The Forrester New Wave™: Wireless Solutions, Q3 2019

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“Aruba Leads the Pack”

Forrester notes Aruba “Is the best fit for companies needing advanced wireless services.”

“Customers praised Aruba Networks’ rich management interfaces, monitoring tools, and location services, especially the ability to connect IoTdevices using wireless options outside of just using Wi-Fi with Aruba’s access points (APs)."

OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR

Simplicity for large scale network

operations

Dial-tone type of service with

improved reliability

Automated controls to improve user

experience

ARUBA 510 SERIES

ARUBA 530 SERIES

ARUBA 550 SERIES

ARUBA 500 SERIES

WI-FI 6 SHIPPING SINCE 2018

Green AP

Smart PoE

IoT Radio

2,000CUSTOMERS

150,000+SHIPPED

9 monthsSINCE GA

(Bluetooth 5, NFC 802.15.4/Zigbee)

Approx.

WiFi 6 (802.11ax)

MaximizingEfficiency

Increase 4x average throughput per device in dense deployment

Enhanced operation in 2.4 & 5 GHz bands

Improve power efficiency of client devices

Improve performance of outdoor and indoor networks

WiFi 6 Pre-WiFi 6

OFDMA

RTHOGONAL

REQUENCY

IVISION

ULTIPLE

CCESS

OFDM

RTHOGONAL

REQUENCY

IVISION

ULTIPLEXING

WiFi 6 (802.11ax)

What Is In 802.11ax?

OFDMPre-802.11ax

Inefficient with small packets (voice & latency sensitive)

What Is In 802.11ax?

OFDMA 802.11ax

Channel width is dividedinto sub-channels

Resource Units (RUs)

What Is In 802.11ax?

OFDMA 802.11ax

• Serve more clients• Lower latency• Good for low data rates• Good for small packets

Uplink OFDMA

3x more system capacity

Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

Bluetooth 5 & BLE

ARUBA WIRELESS LAN AS AN IOT PLATFORM

802.15.4 includes Zigbee

Custom protocols

Aruba Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

• IOT telemetry data streamed to customer configured destination

• Several partners onboarded every quarter• Integration fully backed by complete QA suite,

detailed solution and API documentation

Multiple radio access networks (Multi-RAN)

Latency(ms)

Mobility(km/h)

SpectralEfficiency(vs. LTE)

ExperiencedData Rate

(Mbps)

Peak Data Rate(Gbps)

EnergyEfficiency(vs. LTE)

Area TrafficCapacity

(Mbps/m2)

ConnectionDensity

(devices/km2)

20

100

3x

500

1

106

100

10

5G

LTE-A

Source: WBA, “5G Networks: The Role of Wi-Fi and Unlicensed Technologies,” Sept 2017

.11ax

Source: ITU-R, “IMT Vision – Framework and Overall Objectives for the Future Development of IMT for 2020 and Beyond,” Sept 2015.

WI-FI 6 AND 5GMOBILITY FOR THE FUTURE

Wi-Fi as the Primary MediumIP networks have a larger footprint

than DAS, CBRS, and Small Cell

Wi-Fi for High DensityWi-Fi 6 uniquely complements 5G in

large venues with many devices

Wi-Fi for In-Building CoverageUtilize Hotspot 2.0 and Wi-Fi Calling

to expand cellular signal

FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE

UNIFIED

Controller-based

Distributed, standalone

Remote Access

THE STATE OF

2018WPA3WI-FI

SECURITY1997

WEP2003

WPA2004

WPA2

NEXT-GEN

WIFISECURITY

OPPORTUNISTIC WIRELESS ENCRYPTION

(OWE)

SIMULTANEOUS AUTHENTICATION OF

EQUALS

(SAE)

DEVICE PROVISIONING PROTOCOL

(DPP)

VIRTUALIZATION MEETSCAMPUS WIRELESS LANS

Autonomous APs

Controller based WLANs to enable seamless mobility, ease of

management and improved security

2002 2016

Virtual Mobility

ControllerVirtual

Mobility Master

ARUBA’S MOBILITYCONTROLLER PORTFOLIO

7000 SeriesUp to 64 APs

8 Gbps throughput

7200 SeriesUp to 2,048 APs

100 Gbps throughput

Mobility MasterUp to 1,000 ControllersVirtual and Hardware

Virtual Mobility Controller

Up to 1,000 APs

Virtual and Hardware Form FactorsWLAN, SD-WAN, and VPN Deployment

Unified Policy Enforcement

HIGH AVAILABILITYCLUSTERING

AI-POWERED RFOPTIMIZATION

AIRMATCH

SEPARATE NETWORKS, SAME AP

MULTI-ZONE

SIMPLE AND SECURE NETWORK ACCESS

DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION

MEETARUBAOS 8

AI-POWERED AIRMATCH AND CLIENTMATCHRF OPTIMIZATION BASED ON INSIGHTFUL MACHINE LEARNING

Automation and AssuranceOptional NetInsight adds predictive

analytics and peer benchmarking

Dynamic RF AssignmentsAutomated channel, channel-width and transmit power configurations

Improved User ExperienceSeamless roaming with intelligent RF

capacity and coverage controls

RICH APPLICATION AND UCC VISIBILITYENHANCED WITH UNIQUE MICROSOFT AND APPLE FEATURES

Microsoft and Apple AppsPrioritize Office365, Skype for

Business, Teams, Facetime

Seamless Cellular ExperienceOptimize for Wi-Fi Calling, support

Hotspot 2.0, and use advanced cellular filtering

BYOD Device OptimizationEasily fingerprint iOS, MacOS,

Windows, and Android devices

CONTROLLER CLUSTERINGMINIMIZING THE FAILURE DOMAIN TO MAINTAIN BUSINESS CONTINUITY

UNPLANNEDTrue seamless failover with zero interruption

to user sessions

PLANNEDIn-service upgrades

mean no more maintenance windows

MAXIMUM SCALEManage up to 100,000

APs and aggregate hardware scaling

DYNAMIC LICENSES Configuration hierarchy

ensures flexible customization

MULTI-ZONESECURE SSID SEPARATION FOR MULTI-TENANCY OPERATIONS

OPTIMIZED RF HEALTHImprove Wi-Fi resources by

reducing noise and congestion

MAINTAIN COMPLIANCESecure data separation by terminating

traffic onto different controllers

SIMPLIFIED ARCHITECTUREEliminate the need to deploy

additional access points

DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION

PORT-BASED ROLE-BASED

StaticCamera port

Printer port

PoS port

Manual configuration of ACLs, VLANs, QoS

Automated configurations save time and improve ops

PCI-compliant

Hard to scale for device type and quantity across multiple sites

Dynamic

Flatten configurations at high scale based on user, device, app

UNIFIED POLICY ENFORCEMENT FOR WIRED AND WI-FI NETWORKS

BETTER TOGETHER WIRED AND WIRELESS

ARUBA NETWORK SWITCHESWireless Aggregation

ARUBA ACCESS POINTSIoT Platform

MOBILE-FIRST | DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION | UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

ARUBA’S SOFTWARE DEFINED BRANCH

Virtual and Headend Gateways

Access Points

Switches

Branch Gateways

Aruba Central

SD-WAN + SD-LAN

Consolidated Infrastructure

ARUBA’S SOFTWARE DEFINED BRANCH

ARUBA CENTRAL

Datacenter

Headend Gateway

Branch 1

Branch 2

SaaSInternet

UCC

MPLS, Internet, LTE

Direct to Internet

Integrated SD-WAN, Security, LAN, and WLAN managed centrally

3

2Hybrid WAN

1 Bypass private data center

Automatic device discovery, profiling and

policy enforcement

4

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