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Key Features
Listed below are the key features of ArubaOS 10:
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AirGroup—AirGroup allows administrators to set policy-based discovery and enables client devices to be location aware. Zero-configuration networking enables service discovery, address assignment, and name resolution for desktop computers, mobile devices, and network services. AirGroup supports wired servers in underlay deployment with APs running ArubaOS 10.
- —Aruba Central provides Client Insights, which allows network and security administrators to discover, monitor, and automatically classify new and existing clients connecting to a network. Clients are categorized and grouped by categories, such as Internet of Things (IoT Internet of Things. IoT refers to the internetworking of devices that are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity features allowing data exchange over the Internet.) devices, medical devices, printers, smart devices, laptops, VoIP Voice over IP. VoIP allows transmission of voice and multimedia content over an IP network. phones, computers, gaming consoles, routers, servers, and switches. Integrating Client Insights with ClearPass ClearPass is an access management system for creating and enforcing policies across a network to all devices and applications. The ClearPass integrated platform includes applications such as Policy Manager, Guest, Onboard, OnGuard, Insight, Profile, QuickConnect, and so on. allows context sharing. Based on this context, policies and roles can also be assigned.
- —Aruba Dynamic Segmentation The Dynamic Segmentation feature is Aruba’s security architecture that provides the ability to dynamically assign roles to a wired port based on the access method of a client and enforce application-aware policies to all devices connecting to the infrastructure. automatically applies consistent policies across wired, wireless, and WAN Wide Area Network. WAN is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance. networks to keep traffic for any user or device separate and secure, regardless of the application or service. It also ensures east-west segmentation within a site, or across the entire enterprise.
- IoT Operations—Aruba Central supports transporting IoT data over an enterprise WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection.. IoT data from partners who provide access control systems, industrial manufacturing systems, hospital, healthcare management, hospitality, and building management systems are supported. APs receive data from the IoT devices and send the dashboard metadata to Aruba Central and the IoT data to external servers through IoT connectors. The IoT connector aggregates the device data, performs edge-compute, and runs business logic on the raw data before sending the dashboard metadata and IoT data. Partner-developed applications can be used to send IoT data to external servers.
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Rogues and Intrusion Detection—With Rogues and Intrusion Detection, you can quickly identify and act on a rogue or interfering device that can be later considered for investigation, restrictive action, or both. After rogue devices are discovered, Aruba Central sends alerts to your network administrators about the possible threat and provides essential information required to locate and manage the threat.
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Route Orchestration—With Route Orchestration, the SD-WAN orchestrator automates the redistribution of routing prefixes across the entire SD-WAN network. Route Orchestration allows gateways and micro-branches to advertise their subnets Subnet is the logical division of an IP network. and learn the shortest path to any subnet in the network.
- Unified Communications (UCC Unified Communications and Collaboration. UCC is a term used to describe the integration of various communications methods with collaboration tools such as virtual whiteboards, real-time audio and video conferencing, and enhanced call control capabilities.)—The growing use of Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a WLAN network, mainly using the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. Wi-Fi can apply to products that use any 802.11 standard. and the proliferation of mobile tablet and smartphone clients cause control and visibility challenges for communication and collaboration applications. To overcome these challenges, Aruba offers the UCC application to manage the enterprise communication ecosystem. It actively monitors voice, video, and application sharing sessions, provides traffic visibility, and allows you to prioritize the required sessions. It also leverages the functions of the service engine on the cloud platform and provides rich visual metrics for analytical purposes.
- —With UTM, Aruba provides fully integrated security with a stateful, application-aware firewall Firewall is a network security system used for preventing unauthorized access to or from a private network., including Deep Packet Inspection (DPI Deep Packet Inspection. DPI is an advanced method of network packet filtering that is used for inspecting data packets exchanged between the devices and systems over a network. DPI functions at the Application layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and enables users to identify, categorize, track, reroute, or stop packets passing through a network. ) combined with application classification and Web Content Classification (WebCC). Aruba 90xx Series gateways also optionally support IDS Intrusion Detection System. IDS monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations and reports its findings to the management system deployed in the network./IPS Intrusion Prevention System. The IPS monitors a network for malicious activities such as security threats or policy violations. The main function of an IPS is to identify suspicious activity, log the information, attempt to block the activity, and report it. for advanced threat detection.
- —With vGW Orchestration, Aruba Central can integrate with cloud security providers to handle the entire life cycle of vGW deployed in public cloud environments. It handles the activities such as discovering the cloud topology, instantiating the VM Virtual Machine. A VM is an emulation of a computer system. VMs are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer., licensing the vGW in Central, connecting it to the relevant cloud networking elements, monitoring the device health, and providing High Availability (HA) in single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or Virtual Network (VNET) environments.
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WAN Tunnel Orchestration—With WAN Tunnel Orchestration, the SD-WAN orchestrator automates tunnel negotiation, establishment, and re-key between the branch and hub sites. This feature can be enabled globally or for individual groups in Aruba Central.
