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Remote Networking with Aruba Instant
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Remote Networks with Aruba Instant
Presented by:
Gokul Rajagopalan – Product Management
Santa PalChaudhuri – Engineering
Neil Kulkarni – Technical Marketing
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Key Applications & Verticals
Requirements & Challenges
Aruba Instant for Remote Networking
Agenda
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Who should care?
Branch office /
Remote teleworker
Retail
K-12
Healthcare
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The Challenge of Mobility
Complex to deploy
and manage
Unreliable
connection & poor
app performance
Lack of security for
employee & guest
personal devices
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Remote Networking Requirements
• Few components on-site
• No special expertise on-site
• Full functionality
• Resiliency
• Centralized management
and debug-ability
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Instant – VPN Solution Architecture
Branch 1
Datacenter
AirWave Network
Management
Aruba Mobility Controller
ClearPass solution
Instant Cluster
VRRP Link
Master Standby
Instant Cluster
Branch 2
L3 branch L2 branch
DMZ
IAP-175 outdoor extension
Mesh Link
IAP for indoor extension
Aruba Activate for zero
touch deployment.
Master Active
RF
Firewall
Uplink options
VPN
Fast Failover
Mobility
Application Awareness
Central Management
BYOD and Guest Services
Zero-touch provisioning
Internet / WAN
Self-organizing network
Central or local
AAA & IP
Management
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Optional
• VPN – Aruba Mobility Controllers
• Whitelist Management - ClearPass
• Switching – Mobility Access Switches
Instant – VPN Solution Components
Access Points AirWave Activate
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Zero-Touch Provisioning IAP + VPN
Home/Remote LocationCampus Network
Remote
L2 Network
Segment
Aruba Instant AP
IAP tries Cloud provisioning
Sends: Serial #, MAC
IAP tries DHCP provisioning
Cloud Responds:
AirWave IP, Shared Secret, Org
AirWave
IAP contacts AMP
Sends: Shared Secret, Org
AirWave Responds
Sends: Image and Config
Additional IAPs Discover Initial AP
and download image and config
Access Point 2
Access Point 5
ClearPass automatically downloads
whitelist from Activate
Controller authenticates
APs against ClearPass
Aruba
Activate
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Centralized Management
Demo
Private-cloud Management
• New device-NMS communication model
• NMS Scalability
• Bulk configuration
• Remote troubleshooting
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Key Features
• Zero-touch (remote) VPN configuration
• Automatic whitelisting
• No controller licensing required
• Single IPSec tunnel per IAP network
• Scalability
• Site survivability
Instant VPN - Setup
Demo
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802.1x Authentication
– Dynamic RADIUS Proxy
– External RADIUS & load-balancing
– Role-derivation
– Authentication Survivability
Guest Authentication
– Centralized guest management – ClearPass Guest
– RADIUS accounting
Instant VPN - AAA
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• Local
– User traffic NATted, virtual-controller assigned IP
• Centralized Layer-2
– User traffic bridged, IP assignment from datacenter
• Distributed Layer-2
– User traffic bridged, IP assignment locally managed
• Distributed Layer-3
– Layer-3 subnet on-site, routed to datacenter, IP assignment
locally managed
Instant VPN – client IP & data flow
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Aruba Mobility Controller
VRRP Link
Master Standby
DMZ
Master Active
Aruba Mobility Controller
VRRP Link
DMZ
Master Active Master Standby
Internet / WAN
Data Center A Data Center B
Instant Cluster
Branch 1
Traffic in
Tunnel A
Traffic
switched to
Tunnel B
Primary
Tunnel
Backup
Tunnel
Instant VPN – Fast Failover
Demo
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Platform
– Independent regulatory domains
– Phased firmware upgrades
– Increased controller scalability, lower licensing costs
– Local management plane - resilient to WAN failure
– Local control plane - enables local services
– Local data plane – highly scalable branch
• Deployment
– Zero-touch provisioning
Advantages of Instant-based solution
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Traffic engineering
– Enables mobility in multi-AP branches
– Enables full site survivability
– Constrained broadcast domains
– Fast failover for VPN
– Locally enforced QoS, mDNS optimization, etc.
Management
– Centralized configuration, firmware management,
troubleshooting
– Investment protection as branch grows into campus
Advantages of Instant-based solution
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• Uplink intelligence
• Secondary role-derivation
• Bandwidth management
• Aruba switch integration
• Cloud services
Direction