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Aruba’s customers include:
- Microsoft Corporation; every Microsoft office in the world uses Aruba for employee wireless connectivity,
- USAF; every US airforce base in the world uses Aruba for secure wireless flight-line system management and maintenance
- BAA; London Heathrow Airport (and particularly T5) uses Aruba throughout to deliver wireless hotspot services (the world’s largest hotspot), baggage reconciliation, retail concession Point of Sale, and back-office connectivity
- Over 70 UK hospitals rely on Aruba for providing patient acuity monitoring, electronic patient records, mobile imaging (PACS), voice over IP and video surveillance
- Many major universities use Aruba to provision services to students and faculty, voice and video surveillance, including 5 out of the 7 Ivy League universities in the US, Cambridge University, London Business School and Manchester University.
Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook.
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Case Studies
Case Study: BAA - WLAN at one of the world's busiest airports
A network for 68 million people passing throughBAA Terminal 5 - Britain’s Front Door Goes Wireless With Aruba Networks
Over the next few years, London’s Heathrow Airport will be completely rebuilt, refurbished or redesigned. TheWA airport, owned and operated by BAA, opened in 1946, and through the 20th century developed facilities designed to handle 45 million people annually. However, due to growth in airline travel, Heathrow now handles 68 million people making it the world’s busiest international airport.
As part of the airport rebuilding, Terminal 5 was opened in March 2008 to accommodate the increase in passenger traffic. Located in an area of land equivalent to London’s Hyde Park, and housing 83 retail outlets, it is the home of British Airways and handles 30 million passengers a year. By itself it would be one of the largest airports in Europe, and it needed a WLAN to match.
Case Study BAA.pdf 867.12 kB
Case Study: NCC cuts cost with an Aruba wireless network
Cutting costs in a leading construction companyNCC Sweden Constructs A Wireless Solution to Cut Costs
NCC is one of the leading construction and property development companies in the Nordic region. Within the NCC group, NCC Construction Sweden is responsible for numerous projects spread across the length and breadth of one of Europe’s largest countries: The IT department supports the infrastructure providing data services to approximately 700 offices – many of them very remote - from the headquarters in Solna, near Stockholm.
Requirements:
• Simple deployment and operation of numerous temporary office networks
• Reduce operational costs and improve security
• Centralised management rather than distributed complexity
Case Study NCC Sweden.pdf 808.61 kB
Case Study: KPMG Netherlands Counts on Aruba for Network Rightsizing
As one of the largest professional services firms in the world, KPMG depends upon digitally-connected employees to deliver timely and effective solutions to clients. As the number and variety of user devices expanded, KPMG had to continuously upgrade their network.
Networking costs were becoming a major concern. KPMG realized that network edge rightsizing provided them an opportunity to save money and make money, by reducing their net networking costs and by gaining experience that might apply to their clients as well.
Aruba KPMG Case Study.pdf 643.11 kB
Whitepapers
The Aruba Mobile Virtual Enterprise
The Next-Generation Network Access Architecture for the Post-Laptop Era2011 marks the beginning of the post-laptop era. Mobile devices – whether or not they were intended for corporate use – are making their way onto enterprise networks by the millions.
Enterprise mobility has come to the mainstream along with many other attributes of the socialized consumer Internet experience: multimedia content, heavy use of rich collaboration technologies and cloud-based applications.
Users are embracing these changes as an integral part of how work gets done. But for IT, the new realities are overwhelming a network budget whose foundation supports a legacy design that dates back to the client-server era:
• Siloed networks that duplicate functions and infrastructure at the access layer.
• Fragmented services at the edge of the network where applications meet users and devices.
• Multiple bolt-on technologies that fail to address the unique needs of user mobility.
As long as enterprises remain entangled in this legacy access infrastructure, IT will be forced to respond to users by saying no – to mobility, to mobile devices, and to accessing business-critical applications.
Aruba Networks changes all this with the Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture.
White Paper - The Aruba Mobile Virtual Enterprise.pdf 1.01 MB
White Paper - Wi-Fi for In-Store Mobility
Wi-Fi for In-Store Mobility: Engage Customers and Protect the StoreBy the end of 2011, 50 percent of the U.S. population is projected to own a smartphone, according to Nielsen.
Two-thirds will use their smartphones in retail stores to research products and prices online, predicts Gartner.
The smartphone is driving a revolution in retailing: price transparency. A growing number of shoppers use their phones to compare prices and find better deals while they are shopping in stores. To maintain customer loyalty and improve the shopping experience in the smartphone age, the role of in-store mobility must evolve from enabling retail sales associates to engaging customers.
White Paper - Wi-Fi for In-Store Mobility - Engage Customers and Protect the Store.pdf 838.75 kB
Products
Aruba's Business-Class Teleworker Solution
Multi-service router functionality without the accompanying complexity and costBusiness continuance, reducing office real-estate costs and improving worker flexibility necessitate telework or work-from-home with an on-campus network experience. Similar to traditional branch offices, home offices need an always-on network that serves all corporate applications as well as internet access with enterprise-grade security. However, affordability, simplicity and central management concerns disqualify multi-service routers and UTMs popular in traditional branches as viable options.
In sharp contrast Aruba's cloud-based Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) solution has been designed from the ground up to enable a distributed enterprise network, with a large number of branch and home offices. With VBN, up to seven network and security services are served from a private or public cloud to reduce the amount of network gear needed in each home office to a low-cost Remote Access Point (RAP). The result is multi-service router functionality without the accompanying complexity and cost. Transparent to users, VBN delivers an on-campus user experience with secure access to all corporate and web-based services.
Solution Brief - Business Class Teleworker Solution.pdf 254.86 kB
Bring Your Own Device Solution
A solution to securely and easily connect employee-owned devices in the EnterpriseOver 45 million iPhones and iPads were sold in 2010*, most of them to consumers. These feature-rich smart devices with social networking, integrated cameras and high-speed Wi-Fi allow users to communicate and collaborate in ways unimagined just a few years ago. Consumers are now accustomed to the productivity enhancements these mobile devices bring to their lives and are seeking to bring their personal experience into the workplace.
CIOs worldwide are contemplating adopting these mobile devices in the workplace, but a clear plan on what policies must be put in place to safeguard network services and company data must be developed to maintain a happy balance between enterprise needs and user demands.
These mobile devices are creating a new set of security, configuration and management challenges for IT departments. Since these devices may have security vulnerabilities that do not apply to IT-supplied PCs with locked-down configurations, IT groups are unsure of the implications of endorsing the use of these new, unmanaged and potentially insecure mobile devices.
Aruba can help.
Bring-Your-Own-Device Solution At a Glance.pdf 852.08 kB
Bring-Your-Own-Device Solution for Cisco Wi-Fi
Consumer Mobile Devices at WorkUser computing devices were once tightly controlled and managed by IT, but in the age of smartphones and tablets, they are increasingly employee-owned. Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives allow workers to use their personal smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to access the corporate network and resources. Workers welcome BYOD initiatives as a huge convenience and organizations can reap significant cost savings. However, allowing workers to easily and securely use their personal mobile devices for work is one of the biggest IT pain points today.
Organizations running Cisco Wi-Fi networks now can use Aruba’s Mobile Device Access (MDAC) solution to secure network access and automate provisioning for smartphones and tablets. Aruba MDAC, deployed as an overlay to the Cisco Wi-Fi infrastructure, eliminates the need for the network-wide upgrade required with Cisco TrustSec architecture. As a result, Aruba MDAC delivers cost savings up to 85 percent as compared to Cisco TrustSec.
This document serves as a step-by-step configuration guide that shows how to deploy Aruba MDAC solution as an overlay to an existing Cisco Wi-Fi infrastructure for context-based networking.
Bring-Your-Own-Device Solution for Cisco Wi-Fi.pdf 1.49 MB
Application Brief - Remote Networking for the Virtual Workforce
Secure, reliable, cost effective remote networking for temporary and teleworkers.The definition of an office has changed radically due to the availability of advanced voice, IP telephony, data base, instant messaging, and e-mail services. These applications make it possible to replicate the enterprise experience almost anywhere – at home, in a branch office, a satellite clinic. At the same time, workplace economics make it more attractive for employers to shift away from large fixed facilities and instead encourage teleworking from off-site locations. Doing so necessitates extending IT services to large numbers of remotely located workers without compromising access to business-critical network resources, an expensive proposition using traditional remote network solutions.
Aruba’s Virtual Branch Network (VBN) solution provides secure, reliable remote networking for temporary and teleworkers, at a price point that makes it feasible to deploy on a massive scale.
Application Brief - Remote Networking for the Virtual Workforce.pdf 459.18 kB
Datasheet - Aruba Amigopod for Guest Access
Aruba Amigopod provides easy, scalable and secure guest accessAruba Amigopod is a scalable, easy-to-use visitor management solution that delivers secure wireless network access to guests, employees and their mobile devices.
The intuitive user interface of Amigopod greatly simplifies visitor management by streamlining workflow processes, allowing receptionists, employees and other non-IT staff to create temporary accounts for Wi-Fi access.
Guests and employees with mobile devices can also self-register for network access. Once registered, Amigopod delivers account login credentials to users via SMS text message or email. Accounts can be set to expire automatically after a specific number of hours or days.
Scalable to satisfy the needs of large enterprises and multisite networks, Amigopod manages secure, role-based access for thousands of concurrent users. Amigopod also integrates seamlessly with existing multivendor networks and security devices to streamline deployments and meet compliance mandates.
