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Aruba Instant – The for Wireless
Presented by:
Gokul Rajagopalan – Product Management
Naveen Manjunath – Engineering
Neil Kulkarni – Technical Marketing

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What makes for “Easy” wireless?
Why Aruba Instant?
Agenda

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What is “Easy” WiFi?
• Redundancy for
internal failure
• Redundancy for
external failure
• Organic growth
• Mobility-ready
• RF optimization
• Master AP
selection
• Over-the-air
provisioning
• WiFi oriented
configuration
Simple to
deploy
Self-
optimizing
Self-
healing
Scalable

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What comprises Instant

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• Setup
– Automatic master election
– OTA provisioning
– UI Localization
• Functionality
– On-board auto-RF, IP management, AAA, security.
• Resiliency
– Failover
The Virtual Controller
Demo

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The Physical APs
Product IAP Descrip0on
IAP‐104/105
802.11abgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio, 1 Ethernet port, reset buBon,
IAP‐104: external antennas, IAP‐105: internal antennas
IAP‐134/135
802.11abgn, 3x3 MIMO, dual radio, 2 Ethernet ports, reset buBon,
IAP‐134: external antennas, IAP‐135: internal antennas
IAP‐175P/175AC
802.11abgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio, antenna connectors, 1 Ethernet port,
no reset buBon, IAP‐175P: POE, IAP ‐175AC: AC powered (with PSE),
RAP‐3WN/P
802.11bgn, 2x2 MIMO, single radio, integrated antennas, 3 Ethernet
ports, USB, reset buBon, RAP‐3WN: AP‐AC‐UN power, RAP‐3WNP: AP‐
AC‐48V36, PSE on Ethernet 2
RAP‐108/109
802.11bgn, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio, 2 Ethernet ports (1x
10/100/1000BaseT, 1x 10/100BaseT), USB, reset buBon, RAP‐108:
external antennas, RAP‐109: internal antennas

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Architectural Highlights

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• Distributed data-plane
– Wireless encryption / decryption, firewall
• Distributed control-plane
– Authentication, DHCP, ARM, WIPS
• Centralized (local) management-plane
– Configuration, firmware management, GUI, SNMP
Performance & Scalability

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• Adaptive Radio Management
– Automatic channel & power assignment
– Band-steering
– Airtime Fairness and bandwidth contracts
– Spectrum Load Balancing
• Spectrum Analysis
– Hybrid or dedicated mode spectrum analysis
• Air Monitor
– Rogue detection and containment
• Wireless mesh
– 2 hops and 8 mesh points
Wireless

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• Layer 2 mobility
• Layer 3 mobility
Mobility

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• Firewall
– Role-based access
– Policy-based forwarding and blacklisting
– Bandwidth contracts
• Wireless Intrusion Detection
– Intrusion detection – dedicated or hybrid mode
– Containment – tarpiting
– Switch integration
Security

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• Methods
– In-built MAC-auth
– In-built RADIUS
– In-built captive portal
– External AAA integration
– 802.11U
• Combinations
– Fail-through
– BYOD
AAA

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• Options
– Ethernet,
– Cellular,
– PPPoE,
– Wireless mesh-uplink,
– WiFi uplink
• Failover
– Dual-ethernet,
– Ethernet – LTE
Uplink options

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• RF resiliency
• Virtual controller redundancy
• Uplink redundancy
• External RADIUS redundancy & load-balancing
• AirWave redundancy
Resiliency

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• Voice-type SSID
• Application-Level Gateways
• Media classification
• Dynamic Multicast Optimization
• AirGroup
Voice, Video & Convergence

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• Authentication
– Inbuilt Captive Portal
– Custom redirect
• Content Filtering
– OpenDNS
Guest Access

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• Firmware
– InstantUI
– Cloud
– AirWave
• Configuration
– InstantUI
– AirWave
– CLI
• Troubleshooting
– InstantUI
– Remote – SNMP / Syslog / AirWave
Management

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Thank You

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