CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 1 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf

Aruba Instant – The for Wireless

Presented by: Gokul Rajagopalan – Product Management Naveen Manjunath – Engineering Neil Kulkarni – Technical Marketing

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 2 #airheadsconf

What makes for “Easy” wireless?

Why Aruba Instant?

Agenda

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 3 #airheadsconf

What is “Easy” WiFi?

• Redundancy for internal failure

• Redundancy for external failure

• Organic growth • Mobility-ready

• RF optimization • Master AP

selection

• Over-the-air provisioning

• WiFi oriented configuration

Simple to deploy

Self-optimizing

Self-healing Scalable

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 4 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf 4

What comprises Instant

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 5 #airheadsconf

•  Setup –  Automatic master election –  OTA provisioning –  UI Localization

•  Functionality –  On-board auto-RF, IP management, AAA, security.

•  Resiliency –  Failover

The Virtual Controller Demo

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 6 #airheadsconf

The Physical APs

Product  IAP  Descrip0on 

IAP‐104/105 802.11abgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio, 1 Ethernet port, reset buBon, IAP‐104: external antennas, IAP‐105: internal antennas 

IAP‐134/135 802.11abgn, 3x3 MIMO, dual radio, 2 Ethernet ports, reset buBon, IAP‐134: external antennas, IAP‐135: internal antennas 

IAP‐175P/175AC 802.11abgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio,  antenna connectors, 1 Ethernet port, no reset buBon, IAP‐175P: POE, IAP ‐175AC: AC powered (with PSE),  

RAP‐3WN/P 802.11bgn, 2x2 MIMO, single radio,  integrated antennas, 3 Ethernet ports, USB, reset buBon, RAP‐3WN: AP‐AC‐UN power, RAP‐3WNP: AP‐AC‐48V36, PSE on Ethernet 2 

RAP‐108/109 802.11bgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio,  2 Ethernet ports (1x 10/100/1000BaseT, 1x 10/100BaseT), USB, reset buBon, RAP‐108: external antennas, RAP‐109: internal antennas 

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 7 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf 7

Architectural Highlights

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 8 #airheadsconf

•  Distributed data-plane –  Wireless encryption / decryption, firewall

•  Distributed control-plane –  Authentication, DHCP, ARM, WIPS

•  Centralized (local) management-plane –  Configuration, firmware management, GUI, SNMP

Performance & Scalability

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 9 #airheadsconf

•  Adaptive Radio Management –  Automatic channel & power assignment –  Band-steering –  Airtime Fairness and bandwidth contracts –  Spectrum Load Balancing

•  Spectrum Analysis –  Hybrid or dedicated mode spectrum analysis

•  Air Monitor –  Rogue detection and containment

•  Wireless mesh –  2 hops and 8 mesh points

Wireless

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 10 #airheadsconf

•  Layer 2 mobility •  Layer 3 mobility

Mobility

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 11 #airheadsconf

•  Firewall –  Role-based access –  Policy-based forwarding and blacklisting –  Bandwidth contracts

•  Wireless Intrusion Detection –  Intrusion detection – dedicated or hybrid mode –  Containment – tarpiting –  Switch integration

Security

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 12 #airheadsconf

•  Methods –  In-built MAC-auth –  In-built RADIUS –  In-built captive portal –  External AAA integration –  802.11U

•  Combinations –  Fail-through –  BYOD

AAA

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 13 #airheadsconf

•  Options –  Ethernet, –  Cellular, –  PPPoE, –  Wireless mesh-uplink, –  WiFi uplink

•  Failover –  Dual-ethernet, –  Ethernet – LTE

Uplink options

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 14 #airheadsconf

•  RF resiliency •  Virtual controller redundancy •  Uplink redundancy •  External RADIUS redundancy & load-balancing •  AirWave redundancy

Resiliency

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 15 #airheadsconf

•  Voice-type SSID •  Application-Level Gateways •  Media classification •  Dynamic Multicast Optimization •  AirGroup

Voice, Video & Convergence

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 16 #airheadsconf

•  Authentication –  Inbuilt Captive Portal –  Custom redirect

•  Content Filtering –  OpenDNS

Guest Access

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 17 #airheadsconf

•  Firmware –  InstantUI –  Cloud –  AirWave

•  Configuration –  InstantUI –  AirWave –  CLI

•  Troubleshooting –  InstantUI –  Remote – SNMP / Syslog / AirWave

Management

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 18 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf

The Airheads Challenge Use Unlock Code “INSTANT”

To get the quiz for this session

Login to play at community.arubanetworks.com

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 19 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf

Thank You

CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013. Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved 20 #airheadsconf #airheadsconf 20