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July 31, 2009

Aruba Networks Releases a Reference Guide for Network Integrators

By Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet Contributor

Aruba Networks, Inc. a company that specializes in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, reportedly announced the availability of a new reference guide for network integrators. The network is designed to help the company when designing and deploying fixed telecommuter and branch office solutions, it said.



 
Aruba said that the reference guide titled “Virtual Branch Networks Validated Reference Design” includes step-by-step instructions for designing, deploying and supporting Aruba’s Virtual Branch Network solution. This will benefit fixed telecommuters and branch offices with up to100 employees.
 
Remote network users can be divided into two groups, those who telecommute from a fixed location like a home office and those who work from a branch office or retail store. IT organizations generally employ a remote network architecture which serves different groups of users.
 
Telecommuters required only a PC or laptop and limited networking needs previously and they used a software virtual private network client. Also branch office users were served by a branch office router which interconnected an IP subnet at the remote site with the enterprise network. But such solutions are not sufficient now. Secure networking is a major requisite as telecommuters use IP phones, Wi-Fi enabled smart phones and other devices.
 
The remotely configured and managed branch office routers are also highly complex. In such cases VBN is a good alternative as it combines the simplicity of a centralized virtual private network with the flexibility of role-based access control. VBN makes designing and managing remote networks easy and simple when deployed properly, Aruba said.
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“Aruba’s validated reference designs are models for typical deployment scenarios, and are intended to ensure that the finished networks will perform and scale as expected,” said Chuck Lukaszewski, Aruba’s director of professional services said in a statement.
“Each reference design has been tested in a lab environment by Aruba’s engineers. Using these proven designs mitigates risk and enables integrators to more rapidly and cost-effectively bring telecommuter and small/medium branch office deployments quickly on-line.”
 
The new guide offers physical and logical network designs, gives explanations for required security architectures and policies and lays out provisioning and deployment requirements. It also includes some configurations as examples and a troubleshooting guide which will help both telecommuter and branch office scenarios.
 
The VBN guide features validated reference designs and details regarding best practices for a large campus wireless LAN spread across many buildings and joined by SONET, MPLS or a high-availability backbone. Best practices for retail wireless networks using centrally-managed wireless LANs with intrusion detection capability and spread across warehouses, distribution centers and stores are also included in the VBN guide.

Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney


 







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