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Aruba’s Managed Services Center of Expertise is designed to empower partners to build a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) practice customized to meet business goals and objectives. Whether you are an existing or new partners to Aruba, the Center of Expertise provides resources and guidance on all aspects of Aruba portfolio, commercial models, training, management tools, marketing, and support. Build your Network-as-a-Service practice, Powered by Aruba.

In episode 3 of our 2-minute “What is NaaS?” series, Aruba Sr. Director of Edge Marketing Alan Ni discusses the many benefits of NaaS—and how network as a service offers IT greater speed, flexibility, and cost savings.

In part 2 of our 2-minute “What is NaaS?” series, Aruba Sr. Director of Edge Marketing Alan Ni identifies the key differences between NaaS, IaaS, and SaaS.

Curious about network as a service? In this series of 2-minute videos, Aruba Sr. Director of Edge Marketing Alan Ni describes what you need to know about NaaS. Part One defines the term itself—Learn about how NaaS is challenging the status quo when it comes to network investments and delivery.

The new normal will be a hybrid workplace where work from home and the location-aware office take center stage. Where technology and the network support things like contact tracing, density planning, and heat mapping — all in a seamless and secure manner — to keep employees safe and productive.

Aruba’s 20-year history has been marked by the vision to think differently. And while that has led to innovative technology, it has always fundamentally been about one thing: creating the connections that power businesses and the world. And we’re just getting started.

Digital acceleration calls for an automated, agile, always-protected network. Meet Aruba Central NetConductor, cloud-native network configuration and security services that help IT teams deal with network complexity and security gaps.

In our highly distributed world—where employees work from anywhere, where we demand always on, always secure connectivity—a flexible, modern network is the foundation. One that connects your business to what matters most and evolves as times change.

Introducing the industry’s first self-locating indoor APs with built-in GPS receivers and Open Locate, a proposed new industry standard for sharing location information from an access point to a device. Find out why this is important for IT and LOB by watching the interview with Stuart Strickland, HPE Fellow from the Office of the CTO.

Find out why Aruba’s new network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings give an agile and dynamic network option to those looking for a solution that can flex up or down as business requirements shift. Also learn why we developed HPE GreenLake for Aruba (NaaS) with channel partners in mind.

Hybrid workplaces and the networks that power them require flexibility, a consistent experience, and enterprise security. That’s exactly what Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) offers. See and manage your entire network—including remote locations, branches, campus, and even IoT devices—from a single pane of glass. And Aruba’s Wi-Fi 6 and 6E APs provide the coverage and bandwidth you need to satisfy employees coming back to the office with their high-bandwidth, low latency applications.

Aruba and Zebra have partnered to improve network visibility at the Edge. Complementary to Aruba User Experience Sensors, now Zebra mobile devices can provide Edge visibility into network performance at the application level. This includes voice call quality and roaming events.

First Bank, a 100-year-old 4th generation business, improves user experience with Aruba EdgeConnect.

La Grand Poste is a space dedicated to creative companies and entrepreneurs, offering co-working spaces, and much more. In partnership with Aruba, LGP carve out secure connectivity for tech start-up tenants, business guests and the public.

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This video describes Aruba Central, its key functions, and the value it delivers to our customers.

This video shows examples of how Aruba Central simplifies network management for IT professionals.

This video demonstrates how easy device configuration is on Aruba Central.

This video shows how easy it is to troubleshoot network issues within Aruba Central

This video demonstrates how easy it is to set up security policies within Aruba Central.

Aruba Central is the 1st and only cloud-based networking solution to achieve this important security milestone as the Federal Gov. looks to modernize infrastructure & accelerate transition to the cloud.

Brad Haas, director of AIOps Product Management at Aruba, explains how AI-powered Client Insights in Aruba Central cloud accurately identifies the IoT and user clients on your network. And how increased visibility helps deliver the data needed for improved bandwidth planning, policies, and edge security.

In this video, get an overview of the main components of Aruba EdgeConnect. Learn how the solution helps solve the challenges of the modern WAN edge including cloud migration and the dissolving security perimeter with features such as path conditioning, WAN optimization, intelligent internet breakout on the first packet, automated orchestration to best-of-breed cloud security providers, and advanced UTM features including zone-based firewall, segmentation and IDS/IPS.

Organizations are migrating their applications into multi-cloud environments, so that it is no longer a viable solution to backhaul the internet traffic to the data center. Learn how Aruba EdgeConnect extends the SD-WAN fabric and can be deployed in one click in any of the four public cloud providers to enable a seamless end-to-end connectivity, while improving application performance and reducing costs.

Ransomware is on the rise, particularly targeting IOT devices. In this video, learn how cybersecury threats can be modeled through a kill chain that describes how a threat progresses through several phases. Watch how Aruba IDS/IPS covers East-West flow to protect ransomware in IoT and the courses of action taken by Aruba against kill chain phases.

Aruba secure WAN portfolio provides security orchestration in three ways: Aruba EdgeConnect is an advanced SD-WAN solution for enterprise that automates the orchestration to best-of-breed cloud security providers. Aruba SD-Branch integrates LAN and WAN security orchestration capabilities into a single gateway. Aruba Microbranch protects remote workers, retail stores and other small locations by providing in a simple access point device, SD-WAN capabilities including orchestration and secure internet breakout.

IoT devices are poping up everywhere, in the office, in stores, at home but they are difficult to secure as they cannot run agents. Watch how Aruba helps secure the network from IoT devices with a 5-step approach including Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.

Application performance is critical for the business but workers in branch offices commonly complain that applications are too slow or the transfer to other locations takes too much time. In this video, we'll learn how Aruba EdgeConnect improves application performance in the cloud era based on advanced SD-WAN features such as tunnel bonding and dynamic path control, WAN optimization and secure internet breakout.

Learn how EdgeConnect Branch goes beyond the WAN to address the entire remote-branch user experience from edge to cloud with Aruba’s Edge Services Platform, delivering unified management, artificial intelligence operations (AIOps), and security for wired, wireless, and SD-WAN networking.

Discover how IT teams can bring secure enterprise networking to remote workers in home offices, small offices, and temporary locations. Aruba ESP and Aruba Central in the cloud make it possible.

Give your remote workers an office-like experience, with high-performing connectivity, consistent security, and the best user experience. Plus, Aruba EdgeConnect Microbranch, our flexible, cloud-managed solution, extends SD-WAN services and Zero Trust and SASE frameworks to all your employees, while also streamlining IT operations across campus, branch, and remote work environments.

Learn how enterprises can scale large SD-WAN fabrics with Aruba Orchestrator Global Enterprise. The solution provides a highly scalable and flexible multi-tenant orchestration and management capabilities suitable for large enterprises, with multiple independent SD-WAN deployments of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN.

Deliver best application performance, availability and reliability over any transport including consumer broadband. Forward error correction, tunnel bonding, integrated WAN optimization (Boost), and SaaS optimization are some of the key features of the EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.

EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform helps Service providers create new, tiered managed SD-WAN services to increase revenues and improve service agility. Tiered overlay software services include WAN optimization-as-service, branch office routing, analytics-as-a-service and advanced SD-WAN cloud connectivity for on-net and off-net locations.

Learn how the Aruba SD-WAN edge platform helps healthcare providers rapidly build secure and reliable networks with the ability to bring new clinics online more quickly to deliver the highest quality of experience.

Discover how SaaS Optimization feature in Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN can help distributed enterprises optimize reachability and performance of SaaS apps. SaaS optimization feature provides optimal routing based on lowest latency for reaching that specific SaaS app. It is all done intelligently and dynamically without user intervention.

Learn how Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN with unified WAN Optimization can transmit images efficiently, reliably and securely over any type of transport, improving the quality of healthcare services.

Securing applications no matter where they reside is a key requirement for cloud-first enterprises. EdgeConnect orchestrates app-driven security policies based on built-in stateful firewall and simplified service chaining with cloud-based security gateways and next-generation firewall vendors.

At Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, we are unveiling the industry's first distributed services switch: the Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando. Are you ready to overcome the limitations of legacy networking and security architectures?

Service providers are challenged to provide connectivity to any SaaS application quickly, E2E SLA, off-net revenues, and backup cloud connect. Aruba EdgeConnect easily enables service providers to address these challenges and offer services to customers immediately.

Learn how a managed EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution enables service providers to offer high-performance service delivery for cloud-native applications. This managed cloud connect service extends security visibility and application SLA benefits from site-to-site to Cloud Services delivery by managing customer specific SD-WAN virtual instances in customer’s VPC for AWS, Azure or Google Compute.

Deliver on-net and off-net application-specific managed hybrid SD-WAN services with EdgeConnect. Service providers can offer SLA for a managed SD-WAN service operating in a hybrid multi-transport (MPLS, LTE and broadband) network environment, broadening managed service offerings. The Aruba application-aware SD-WAN overlay model automatically steers traffic to its destination based on QoS and security policies according to business intent (BIO) rather than relying on complex, inflexible routing protocols.

Learn how selecting a business-driven SD-WAN edge platform can turbo-charge UCaaS performance and help optimize the user experience for real-time UCaaS services.

Watch this video to learn how Aruba and Zscaler deliver a secure SD-WAN that automates the configuration of cloud-hosted security services within the Aruba Orchestrator in a matter of minutes. This automation assures consistent security policies for all users, across all locations with true zero-touch provisioning, enabling optimal application performance by automatically adapting to changing business requirements. For IT, that means lower costs and simplified operations. And for users, it means fast, secure, and uninterrupted access to business-critical applications.

SD-WAN security is a top of mind for customers. Today's security approach is fragmented, complex and expensive. With EdgeConnect, the approach is holistic and automated based on centralized orchestration of security policies across the LAN and WAN.

Securing applications no matter where they reside is a key requirement for cloud-first enterprises. The EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution has built-in stateful firewall and simplifies integration with security ecosystem partners. It enables orchestration of app-driven security policies leading to securing sites quickly while reducing errors, faster response to threats and automated app security.

Is your network ready for Industrial and Manufacturing processes at the Edge? Now it can be with Aruba ESP. Aruba’s Edge Services Platform is the industry’s first AI-powered hyper-aware network designed to connect, protect, and automate integrated OT and IT operations.

Learn how the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform with advanced WAN optimization techniques can deliver the highest quality of telemedicine experience for patients, first responders and medical practitioners.

The Aruba EdgeConnect is purposefully engineered to power today's cloud-first consumption of enterprise applications. The thin branch consolidates and orchestrates the consumption of network functions like SD-WAN, BGP routing, WAN optimization, firewall while protecting current infrastructure investment.

Aruba SD-WAN secures internet breakout and SaaS optimization features ensure optimal user experience by automatically and dynamically mapping SaaS IP addresses to branches in order to steer traffic to its destination using the best path.

The first-packet iQ enables organizations to reach cloud-based applications, SaaS, IaaS and trusted web traffic directly to the Internet from branch offices. The Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform First-packet iQ feature intelligently identifies applications on first-packet & dynamically steers traffic to its destination on an app-by-app basis.

As cloud-first enterprises embrace digital transformation, they must avoid hardware refresh, a network-centric infrastructure that is not app-aware, and glued orchestration that is not baked in the solution. The Aruba Unity EdgeConnect enables cloud-first enterprises to accelerate transformation in the most cost-effective way.

Build a highly available and resilient branch office architecture with the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform active-active cluster. No single point of failure on the LAN, WAN or appliance side. Learn how you can bring simplicity, operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of SD-WAN to the design.

In this video, we will be discussing key use cases where a software-defined WAN built on the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform can prove pivotal to improving the healthcare experience for patients and medical practitioners.

Deliver WAN optimization when you need it and where most required. Aruba Boost Unified WAN Optimization on-demand is a feature embedded in the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, allowing enterprises to optimize on an app-by-app and branch-by-branch basis. All resulting in reducing cost, enhancing app performance and user experience through latency mitigation and deduplication.

Flexible migration from legacy routers to SD-WAN. Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform gives you the option to replace routers altogether, integrate with existing routers and appliances, and/or interoperate with legacy sites not yet SD-WAN enabled.

Learn how Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform works and the benefits it provides to enterprises by enhancing user experience and increasing operational efficiencies. EdgeConnect provides flexible deployment models, predictable performance over any WAN transport, and simplified and consistent app-driven policies no matter where the app resides.

In this video, you will learn how Aruba enables cloud-first enterprises to accelerate, automate and simplify the deployment and management of large, global SD-WANs across multiple regions, supporting fine-grained application, network and security policies that align to business needs.

Technology helps students get excited about learning and enhances the resources for educators. In this episode, we chat with Josh Bauman, Chris Warden, and Cory Smith of the K12 Tech Talk Podcast and find how they are upgrading their respective K-12 school district’s wireless networks with Aruba (we also hear which of them would dominate in the Olympic Trampoline event!). Jackie Sandoval hosts.

Aruba technology can transform guest experiences, drive greater loyalty, and boost business outcomes. See this Day in the Life hospitality experience as we follow a business traveler – from hotel arrival, mobile check-in, through various service connections – all designed to enhance the guest experience at every step of their journey. Learn more about Aruba products here: https://www.arubanetworks.com/solutions/hospitality/

In this podcast interview, Chandresh Dedhia, Head of Information Technology at Ascent Health & Wellness, discusses how the company deployed Aruba EdgeConnect to ensure uptime for critical pharmaceutical fulfilment services, speed up order processing, and provide robust performance for cloud-based business apps.

By transforming WAN and security architectures with SASE, enterprises can ensure direct AND secure access to cloud-hosted applications and services for users, regardless of location or the devices used to access them. Networking and security are truly converging at the WAN edge. To realize all the benefits the cloud offers, and to implement a secure access service edge, enterprises need to transform both their WAN and security architectures, not just one or the other. You can start the journey with SD-WAN or with cloud-security or with both. You may not want to be forced into transforming both at the same time – you likely want to transform these architectures at a pace that makes sense for the company. Start by evaluating your WAN and security requirements based on business needs. Many enterprises really need best of breed WAN technology AND best of breed cloud-delivered security, without compromising on either.

IoT devices create some security challenges that are not directly addressed by SASE. The SASE model, which is the combination of advanced SD-WAN capabilities and cloud-delivered security services, must be augmented with a zero-trust network security capability. It must be able to provide visibility into user identity, device identity and their role in the business to enable fine-grained segmentation. The network must enforce segmentation so that users and devices can only reach destinations consistent with their roles.

SASE is the combination of advanced WAN edge functions, unified and deployed at the branch, married with a rich set of cloud-delivered security services. Most enterprises prefer best-of-breed WAN technology and best-of-breed cloud-delivered security, without compromising either. According to the results of a recent Ponemon Institute security best practices survey, of more than 1800 networking and security IT professionals, more than 70% of respondents favored multi-vendor integrations that simplify deployment and ongoing operations without compromising networking or security capabilities. But how can we make a multi-vendor solution easy to deploy and easy to update? To implement cloud-delivered security and deliver the best cloud app performance, you must configure secure IPsec tunnels between branch locations and cloud security enforcement points. And it’s imperative that you configure enforcement points to be as close to the branch location as possible to minimize delay which in turn results in the best application performance. With integrated orchestration that automates a best-of-breed multi-vendor SASE architecture, IT and the enterprise realizes the best in operational efficiency without compromising either the networking component or the cloud security component of a SASE architecture.

This video clarifies some common misinterpretations of SASE and what it is and what it isn’t as it relates to the WAN. Spoiler alert! It’s not SASE VERSUS SD-WAN! SD-WAN is actually a foundational component of SASE architecture. If you read the initial Gartner report from the Summer of 2019 that introduced the SASE framework as well as follow-on reports, they clearly define SASE as the combination of SD-WAN and security functions delivered in the cloud.

Is your network ready for Sports and Entertainment at the Edge? Now is can be with Aruba ESP. From app-enabled venue navigation and personalized engaging interactions based on user preferences, Aruba ESP provides frictionless experiences for staff and visitors alike.

AIOps Today – Use Cases and Value that go beyond Troubleshooting.

AIOps Today – Reality versus Fairy Tale.

Children's of Alabama debuts telehealth solutions and remote workforce amid pandemic.

The Internet of Things is driving new forms of digital transformation seemingly everywhere in the organization. How will your network support all those new requirements? With Aruba ESP, you can empower your organization with a future-proof hyper-aware network that combines IT and IoT on a single platform—so you can easily adapt to whatever IoT technology comes next.

SASE or Secure Access Service Edge is an architecture that combines necessary branch WAN edge functions including SD-WAN, routing, segmentation, zone-based firewall and WAN optimization with comprehensive cloud-delivered security services, delivered and managed in the cloud.

SASE has been defined differently by different SD-WAN vendors and security vendors. This series of short videos are intended to provide you with everything you need to know about SD-WAN but were afraid to ask.

In this podcast interview, Scott Shaw, Chief Technology Officer at FordHarrison, explains that with Aruba EdgeConnect appliances at each office he was able to decommission expensive MPLS circuits and retire legacy Cisco routers, simplifying day-to-day management and troubleshooting, and boosting staff productivity by improving application performance and VoIP reliability.

See how the Aruba IoT Transport for Microsoft Azure service enables the secure, bidirectional transfer of data between edge IoT devices and Azure IoT using existing Aruba IT infrastructure as the linkage between the two. With this service, you can reduce the time, cost and risk of developing homegrown or customized solutions.

Ambica Sogal, Senior Product Line Manager for Aruba IoT Solutions, shares how the IoT Operations service can help network administrators accelerate IoT deployments and reduce security risk. Learn more at arubanetworks.com/iot.

Is your network ready for Financial Services at the Edge? Now it can be with Aruba ESP. From transitioning to a hybrid workplace with a frictionless user experience, to location awareness and mobility management systems, to AI-based health monitoring of critical applications and devices, Aruba ESP skillfully blends digital capabilities and physical processes.

Building upon the processes and functionality shown in previous workflow demos, learn how with Aruba Fabric Composer, Network Administrators can generate multiple EVPN instances to establish interconnections within data center infrastructures without a high level of specialized skills or manual configurations.

Experience this for yourself at: www.arubanetworks.com/afc/demos
Learn more at: www.arubanetworks.com/products/fabric-composer

Whether building out Leaf-Spine connectivity for the first time, or adding Leaf nodes to an existing fabric, learn how Aruba Fabric Composer’s automated workflows help to eliminate the labor, time and errors often encountered when scaling the network fabric.

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Learn how Aruba Fabric Composer's Guided Setup workflows have eliminated complexities to orchestrate Layer 2/3 network connectivity and communications.

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Learn how with Aruba Fabric Composer, Network Administrators can bring simplicity to commonly applied functions, like establishing a network fabric infrastructure.

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Learn how Aruba Fabric Composer, offers a quicker, better way to increase network resiliency for an always available network – without adding complexity.

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Learn how with Aruba Fabric Composer, Network Administrators can create consistency, reduce errors, and free up time, with a quick and uniform process to configure switch parameters across the entire network infrastructure.

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Learn more at: www.arubanetworks.com/products/fabric-composer

Through a series of automated Guided Setups, learn how Aruba Fabric Composer simplifies and accelerates provisioning of the network fabric and reduces the need for highly-specialized knowledge.

Experience this for yourself at: www.arubanetworks.com/afc/demos
Learn more at: www.arubanetworks.com/products/fabric-composer

Learn how with Aruba Fabric Composer, Network Administrators can bring simplicity to commonly applied functions, like establishing a network fabric infrastructure.

Experience this for yourself at: www.arubanetworks.com/afc/demos
Learn more at: www.arubanetworks.com/products/fabric-composer

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Sanitas USA provides healthcare and insurance services through a nation-wide network of hospitals and clinics. The company had deployed an SD-WAN solution at more than 60 locations, but the product failed to deliver key capabilities such as automated failover and network visibility. This podcast interview features Victor Vega, a Network Engineer with Sanitas. Victor shares why he's replacing an existing SD-WAN vendor with Aruba EdgeConnect.

Is your network ready for Federal Government Agencies at the Edge? Now it can be with Aruba ESP. With today’s evolving demands, find out how you can adapt and consistently deliver better and safer experiences for citizens and civilian and DOD government entities.

Fouad Zreik, Director of Aruba UXI Product Management covers solving client and application issues faster or before they happen using Aruba UXI’s AI-powered Incident Detection.

Enterprise architectures are changing. Users are everywhere—in the office, working or learning from home, or anywhere in between. And applications can be anywhere, too. How can you securely, and seamlessly, connect anyone or anything at these edge locations to the cloud, and to applications? That’s where Aruba edge-to-cloud security comes in. Based on the principles of Zero Trust and SASE using best-of-breed solutions. Powered by Aruba ESP. For more info, visit www.arubanetworks.com/security.

Watch how Wi-Fi 6E access points perform in this speed test across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands. Wi-Fi 6E provides more capacity, wider channels and less interference to better meet enterprise needs today and plan for future growth. To learn more, go to www.arubanetworks.com/wifi6E.

Shantell Skalberg and Brian Sterud of Faith Regional Health Services talk with Samuel Hill about the digital transformation of health care during the pandemic, digital engagement with patients, and Wi-Fi-bathtubs (yes, that's a thing!)

Aruba data center solutions unify, automate, and protect emerging enterprise use cases required in the new edge-to-cloud era.