One of many keynote presentations prepared for Aruba co-founder Keerti Melkote to be used at Aruba Atmosphere community conference. Always a challenge to storyboard, visualize and create these from start to finish - supported by several live tech demos on stage; but addictive.
You can do this now because you can take your office where you can go
Mobility no longer treated solely as a resource but an asset since it is now business critical in many organizations.
Excited more than ever because we are in a position along with our partners to help orgs go mobile first.
“With this ecosystem of partners, I would like to show you what’s possible – and what it takes to create the all wireless experience”
You’re always been judged by uptime and performance. But now with new stakeholder, your judged by innovation as well. if you sacrifice either operations or security, no one will recognizes your innovation. If you don’t innovate, the innovation will happen without you.
“Up time” is the key here and the image should highlight the urgency associated with that… "think about operating a space ship, a plane.. not a bike or a car”.
There is always this constant tension between delivering the highest level of innovation… and being able to maintain the reliability / uptime of networks. We do not have the luxury to ask you to upgrade your entire network and plan for days of outages … in order to implement a simple yet important new feature. How can we balance these two requirements?
You can’t avoid it – for guests and internal employees
Planning for voice – clientmatch and coverage
DAS still relevant to large PFE environments
Carriers will embrace (more affordable coverage options to keep customer loyalty)
Customers will embrace (MOU reduction, roam avoidance)
- Voice over WiFi is inevitable. Even if a network admin doesn’t want to do it, things like WiFi calling, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, etc. will introduce voice over WiFi with the admins having very little impact on preventing these.
- Makes our investment in ClientMatch all the more important. The biggest problem with voice over WiFi and its enablement on mobile devices is the impact on poor roaming algorithms on the client side on voice quality. With ClientMatch, 802.11v BSS Transition management, and UCC fingerprinting, we are in the best possible position to provide roaming on WiFi that is at least as good as cellular networks.
- Mobile data indoors has long been on WiFi. With WiFi calling, voice is about to transition to WiFi when a user is indoors. Which would make WiFi the indoor network for all connectivity. Do we still need indoor cell coverage? Can we stop discussing DAS, LTE small cells, or LAA/LTE-U as necessary elements for indoor coverage?
Bring in network security component (we are not done yet)
You need an enforcer (PEF) + definition (ClearPass) + network security
Let’s talk about data plane, we talked about control plane last year
PEF as the enforcer for ClearPass who is listening to Web Content, Palo Alto, SIEM
Sensory network – low cost, energy efficient, may communicate via proprietary or standardized means
Gateways aggregate sensory data fabric
Computing and big data will change the context into concrete actions or business intelligence (material ROI)
Secure Object Connectivity will be a weak spot for most organizations
We feel there are four attributes necessary to orchestrate these connections. They are
Interrogate – clearpass policy definition - Endpoint diversity – varying capabilities – unmanaged or unmanageable, ownership model
Interconnect – airgroup/SDN. L2 VLAN constructs won’t work here. Security will be achieved by carefully choreographing entitlements – based on Airgroup Generic grouping architecture
Analyze traffic – to only allow certain app types through appRF/PEF
Track- Visual RF and NG location technologies
Good news is that as customers many of you already have the foundations to be able to secure IoT connectivity.
Everyone knows big data is all the rage.
But it needs quality information to be fed in to provide analytics- high value output that relates to ROI
Unstructured into structured, actionable intelligence
Location and proximity redefining the expectations of mobility
Wayfinding
Presence
Customer engagement
Intelligent Workplaces
1) Doctor arrives in room doing daily rounds with interns. Visits patient 1 in bed2) Opens docs@work app to access patient chart. Folder has chart information for the 40 patients he is visiting today3) BLE beacon in bed, when Dr walks to bed, notification with patient name comes up. Puts doctor in patient's folder for relevant file access.4) doctor opens doc and review it. Uses docs@work annotations to walk patient through file5) While reviewing chart new urgent file comes into device via notification. Doctor reviews new file and wants to visit patient ASAP. Selects navigate to patient and sees patient in relationship to current position.
1) Teacher arrives, logs into classroom2) Classroom roster downloads3) As students arrive - blue dot will show up next to name4) Teacher will confirm the physical attendance of the student5) Teacher dashboard will show airgroup resources available in room, along with other options6) Teacher may wants to proctor an exam, can place room in exam mode7) ClearPass issues COA to all students8) Student tries to access the internet. CPPM captive portal denies access and indicates space is in exam mode.
With the dawn of the collaborative workplace, meetings continue to multiply (10% YOY since 2000s) and private office space continues to shrink. As a result the competition for meeting space continues to grow and room-calendaring systems intended to establish order aren’t working as designed.
The existing meeting room construct is plagued with issues we all know and despise:
Frequent interruptions
zombie meetings or meetings that run late
Being exiled in the hall during your designated slot
What we drove our meeting room behavior based on actual user presence? There would probably be a heck of a lot less anxiety, frustration for end-users – and meaningful real estate cost saving for companies.
Enter our demo utilizing room presence technology from Robin paired with our beacons: {flash slide of both logos on the screen}
So I have booked a team meeting in Saturn for the next hour. You’ll see that reflected on our IoT digital signage board outside the room [ project ipad on to the screen]
Just happens to be that Keerti is looking for a room to have a chat with another collegue he just saw. He observes the conference room is available and steps in. As you see without any interaction with technology, the room knows he’s there and updates its status.
We now show up at the room and with out barging in see that the room is occupied. Since he’s our boss and looks quite comfortable we wisely decide to look for other options.
I open up the Robin meeting room app and look for other open rooms – real time. What do you know, Pluto is open, and the closest available – thanks Keerti.. Since I don’t know where that is, Meridian in-door navigation will get my party there. [show navigation with estimated walk time].
Transition from past to the future
We promise to stay innovative, stay committed to the open system, stay best of breed and our culture customer first, customer last.
We have done this together, we will move forward together with you all.