Industrial Environments Solutions

Aruba's unified mobility solutions provide a secure, robust means of connecting mobile workers to the plant network, reliably delivering business-critical applications no matter where users roam or the environment in which they work. Our adaptive wireless LANs, identity-based security, and application continuity services offer a safer, more reliable, and more transparent means of supporting your business processes - and enabling new ones. From shop-floor to board room, the cost, convenience, and security benefits of our unified mobility solutions are fundamentally changing how and where we work.

Wireless networks increase productivity by bringing the plant networks to workers instead of forcing them to go to fixed workstations. Minimizing the number of workstations frees up valuable floor space and allows for more flexible equipment layouts. By simultaneously supporting data, voice, and streaming video, wireless networks provide full access to existing applications and enable new ones such as all-wireless mesh-based telemetry, voice recognition, and streaming video surveillance. Wireless networks reduce the need for expensive network-related power and data cable plant and equipment, lowering CAPEX and potentially expensive maintenance headaches.

The wireless Follow-Me Factory moves in lock-step with users:

• Follow-Me Connectivity: 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information.
• Follow-Me Security: Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed.
• Follow-Me Applications: Remote access solutions and cellular network integration ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move.

The Aruba Advantage:

• Networking hardware is purpose-built for harsh indoor and challenging outdoor environments
• Adaptive wireless LANs automatically adjust and optimize themselves to the operating environment
• Labor saving features such as over-the-air set-up and centralized network management lowers OPEX
• Wireless mesh technology and flexible power options minimize the CAPEX associated with plant upgrades