Retail Solutions

Aruba's Unified Secure Mobility for Retail

What's your vision? To create the ultimate customer experience? To strengthen your brand by easily and efficiently complying with PCI standards? To improve visibility into all aspects of your operations? To create a truly ubiquitous network that securely serves every customer, associate and partner, everywhere, on any device, exactly as they need?

Aruba has pioneered a new approach to help you achieve your vision. Aruba’s unified secure mobility platform integrates adaptive WLANs, identity-based security, and application continuity services into a cohesive, high-performance system for retail stores and warehouses. The result is a cost-effective solution for both PCI compliance and enabling new applications. Further, the unified secure mobility platform provides the flexibility to overlay on top of existing wired networks, avoiding unnecessary upgrades.

The Aruba Networks System

The heart of an Aruba unified mobility solution is the Multi-Service Mobility Controller. Computationally powerful, massively scalable, and 802.11n-ready, this family of products runs the ArubaOS, manages software applications, coordinates security policies, and continuously optimizes the performance of the wireless LAN. Designed to support business-critical data, toll-quality voice, and streaming video applications, Multi-Service Mobility Controllers can simultaneously use centralized, distributed, split-tunnel, and/or secure mesh forwarding architectures to accommodate virtually any installation scenario or redundancy requirements.

Wireless intrusion detection/protection, endpoint compliance, locationing/RFID, cellular-to-Wi-Fi enterprise fixed mobile convergence, and a wide variety of additional applications run on, or in conjunction with, the Multi-Service Mobility Controllers. All under the direction of Aruba’s network management application.

Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n access points provide connectivity with bar code reader, laptop, hand-held, phone, and related mobile clients, linking them with Multi-Service Mobility Controllers over secure mesh, LAN, or WAN tunnels. Aruba offers a wide range of access points, from diminutively packaged devices that can be carried by traveling executives to explosion-resistant ruggedized units for harsh environments.

Aruba access points can be repurposed over the network, allowing one common SKU to service many applications. Configured as a remote access point, the device provides secure network access to roaming users – on the road, at remote sites, at contractor facilities. Users gain access to the same network resources they would have at work, with the same level of security, but without the headaches of a managed client. Configured for secure mesh operation the access points communicate wirelessly, and ideal way to signal over short or long distances without cable drops. Ideal for overcoming challenging installation scenarios, mesh is an invaluable tool where all-wireless signaling is a must.

The Aruba Advantage:

• PCI-ready: Cost-effectively and painlessly meet PCI compliance with integrated security
• Application-aware: Support legacy applications and easily add new ones including voice, video and data applications
• Support any device: Vendor agnostic support for your legacy devices while allowing you to add news ones
• Retail-ready: Central management for hundreds or thousands of distributed sites
• Flexible architecture: Overlays on top of existing networks to avoid upgrades and network redesigns