We’ve taken a unique architectural approach to designing networks since day one. We call this Aruba’s Edge Architecture. Our design principles start with designing purpose-built infrastructure to deliver secure non-stop networking at scale, this includes our APs, switches, controllers, and gateways. Our software is built with a modern microservices to give us the speed and flexibility to innovate based on customers’ changing needs. We’ve architected the network for software-defined controls so that innovation cycles aren’t dependent on hardware. Our architecture delivers on dynamic policy, continuous monitoring, and management & assurance—using built-in AI. Security is at the heart of our designs and it’s built to adapt to fast-changing, unpredictable environments where rules can’t always be pre-defined and threats can’t always be foreseen. This architecture is what gives IT automated policy with dynamic segmentation…the simplicity they need to centrally define policies based on roles and different classes of users, dynamically enforce policies all the way through to layer 7, and have a network that adapt to adds, moves, and changes without requiring IT to reconfigure policy. And because we’ve our architecture with a standards-based, API-first approach, IT can continue to use their existing know-how and avoid steep learning curves, but have programmability where they want it. We also designed in the ability to sense all the connections, users, & transactions, bringing it all together in a vast data network, enabling advanced AI—a network that is constantly learning and applying those learnings with automation and giving off context and insights for informed decision-making