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5 Top Tips to Remote Working

MEC Networks Corporation — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:47:37 +0000

Work smart, wherever you are.

Remote working isn’t a new concept and businesses are slowly adapting and realizing that employees should have the flexibility to work from wherever they need to. It’s a positive move, for the business and your employees alike, so that it can always be business as usual — regardless of where everyone is located!

1.) Make sure the right tools are in place.

Combining a cloud-based solution, the right meeting tool, and an all-in-one workspace to enable team collaboration is key. Mitel has the perfect solutions to help you achieve this!

2.) Encourage and embrace a remote working culture.

One thing underpins all the tech, that’s the mindset and the behavior of you and your employees. It’s vital to encourage a flexible working culture to maintain productivity and enjoyment, from anywhere.

3.) Ensure your employees have everything they need to be able to work from home.

A successful remote working setup should emulate the normal office environment as much as possible, delivering the right mix of tools, solutions and processes with unfettered access, and a good connection to the team, customers and suppliers.

4.) Provide the right training so employees feel comfortable working outside of ‘the office’.

Unless employees are used to remote working it can be a bit daunting at first. Given the right advice, training, and support, there’ll be no stopping them!

5.) Stay in touch – communicate regularly with everyone.

Communication should be no different whether employees are based at the office or at home. Mitel’s MiTeam Meetings can ensure faultless transitions between voice, video and chat functionality so everyone can still feel part of the team.

No matter where your employees are, or what devices they’re using, it’s crucial to keep everybody connected and productive.

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Seamlesss And Secure Access For Your Remote Workers

MEC Digital — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:38:41 +0000

MiVoice Connect Edge Gateway

With MiVoice Connect, your company owns, maintains, and controls your business communications network. Its modular design distributes system intelligence across your entire network, ensuring superior reliability, ease of management and seamless connectivity —no matter how many locations and remote workers you have across the world.

Benefits

Consistent user experience for your office-based and remote employees
Removes the complexity of securing remote endpoints, including the elimination of a VPN requirement
Improved voice quality via RAST protocol

Solving Remote Worker Challenges

When it comes to remote employees, security is a top concern. Home or remote working environments can be more of a threat, and therefore, require VPNs, firewalls, and anti-virus programs to protect a company’s sensitive data. With the Edge Gateway, you can eliminate VPNs and third-party programs. It provides seamless and secure connectivity to your remote employees so they can benefit from the same, secure MiVoice Connect experience as your office workers.

Seamless User Experience

The Edge Gateway is fully integrated with endpoints and features of MiVoice Connect. Your remote employees will have full access to all unified communications capabilities – conferencing, collaboration, instant messaging, Outlook integration, call management, and softphone are all available, with the same experience no matter where you’re located.

RAST for Improved Voice Quality

By establishing a RAST tunnel to the Edge Gateway, IP400 series phones can provide the exact same functionality as if they were inside the corporate network. This protocol uses an encrypted tunnel that employs UDP to transport media packets to improve voice quality in less-than-ideal Internet conditions. This protocol falls back to TCP for media transport if UDP fails. TCP is used for signaling traffic.

Secure Endpoints

All traffic to and from the Edge Gateway is encrypted and combined with secure access to MiVoice Connect endpoints to provide you with peace of mind. The MiVoice Connect client links to both the reverse proxy and TURN servers in the Edge Gateway to offer a seamless remote experience. Reverse proxies, the intermediate proxy servers, provide internal server resources to requesting clients outside the corporate network. Outside clients interact with the proxy server as if it were the requested server and thus have no contact with the actual server providing the resources. Plus, none of the Edge Gateway-supported endpoints require the installation of a VPN client to work effectively and securely across your company’s private network.

WebRTC Support

WebRTC supports browser-based apps for media communications and file sharing. The Edge Gateway implements WebRTC, with the MiVoice Connect web collaboration app utilizing WebRTC for real-time communications with a compatible web browser.

Deployment & Licensing

The Edge Gateway is deployed in your DMZ, behind the external firewall and has two interfaces – one internal and one external. The internal one has one IP address whereas the external one has three IP addresses, one for each: RAST, Reverse Proxy, and TURN server. These three addresses must have same network mask and gateway. If you are a MiVoice Connect customer that has already deployed a Mitel Collaboration Service Appliance in your DMZ, you do not need to move the service appliance. Just add an Edge Gateway next to it in parallel. If you are new to MiVoice Connect, the Edge Gateway should go in the DMZ and the service appliance should go behind it in the corporate network.

To manage your Edge Gateway, you can easily do so through the MiVoice Connect Director. For advanced troubleshooting, the Connect Director can pass through to the Edge Gateway admin portal. The Edge Gateway itself is a free add-on to your company’s MiVoice Connect solution. You can run reverse proxies and use Connect apps remotely without purchasing any licenses. Licenses are required when you want to use softphones or desk phones remotely. However, licenses are included with MiVoice Connect Premier and Elite bundles. You can also buy remote media licenses a la carte. These are useful when you want to support guest users of the MiVoice Connect web collaboration app.

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Mitel: 6 Signs It’s Time to Update to Cloud Phone Technology

Ron Esmeralda — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:38:15 +0000

It’s easy to get comfortable together with your communications system – until that moment after you realize you need more from it. Consider mobility, for instance. Just a couple of years ago, most employees worked from the office. Today, over half are likely to get on the go and work remotely at least some of the time. If your current communication system isn’t ready to handle the office exodus, that’s a glaring sign you’re due for a change.

The good news? A cloud phone solution, like MiCloud Connect, ensures employees can work and collaborate anywhere by delivering the newest in mobility.

But mobility is simply one problem solved by cloud phone technology. Chances are, your communications system is flashing yellow and red in other places similarly. A number of these warnings are harder to acknowledge than others. If you’ve noticed any of the following signs, now’s the time to form the switch.

6 Signs It’s Time To Upgrade Your Communications

You’re getting plenty of questions on security. This can be a hot topic both within the news and at weekly IT meetings. Protecting sensitive information may be a top priority. But if you’re not 100% confident in your communications system, you’ll want to ask vendors some hard questions. For example: Do they provide Secure Real-Time Transfer Protocol (SRTP), which ensures voice, web, and signaling traffic is encrypted? What platform are they using and what levels of security do they offer? At Mitel, we decided to amp up security by partnering with Google Cloud. Our customers have the benefit of the same reliable and trusted network infrastructure we all use for search and videos daily.

You operate in a regulated industry. In industries like healthcare or finance, compliance looms large. Violations are expensive and may tarnish your reputation. However, once you work with a cloud phone provider committed to making sure high levels of security and protecting sensitive data, you’ll ease your IT burden. MiCloud Connect, for instance, is certified to satisfy the insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards and service Organization Control Type II (SOC 2) compliance, helping you adhere to even the foremost stringent requirements.

High traffic is reducing the standard of your communications. People might run on coffee, but business is powered by a reliable and consistent network. Slow-downs, dropped calls and low-quality video impede conversations, frustrating employees and customers. Ask about the provider’s data. As a point of reference, Mitel has 99.995 percent uptime backed by SLAs and financial penalties if we don’t meet these standards. Other important items to seem for during a reliable solution are Tier 4 data centers with several layers of redundancy and multiple connectivity options with automatic failover. With these built-in capabilities, employees work fast and never miss an opportunity to drive customer satisfaction higher.

Cloud phone technology helps business adapt to change

Business is booming, so your company is growing – fast. Ask yourself how difficult it’s to add or remove lines and users to your current system. If it requires a call to the seller anytime you would like to make a change, then it’s time for a cloud phone solution. the beauty of the cloud is that it’s very easy to regulate new conditions. You’ll add or remove seats and upgrade permissions in real-time, which suggests your business is more agile. A scalable solution keeps you competitive, while also offering flexible pricing plans so you’ll stay within budget.

It’s getting harder to satisfy client expectations. During a competitive market, it’s only too easy to fall behind without integrated collaboration tools. A stellar customer experience builds loyalty, but it is often difficult to deliver when employees are taking extra steps to share documents or discuss issues. When collaboration is made into communications, it’s easier for employees to exceed customer expectations. For instance, with click-to-join access for web, audio, and video conferencing, a product manager can convene his team to resolve a pressing issue quickly, getting goods within the hands of consumers at the proper moment. Additionally, a persistent workspace with chat, tasks, and file-sharing gives teams the power to collaborate in real-time. When employee collaboration is simple and seamless, customers get answers faster and satisfaction soars.

Managing multiple licenses is keeping you very busy. There are better ways to spend some time. With a cloud phone solution, you’ll mix and match license types on one plan. Need a contact center? Collaboration tools? It’s simple to add licenses on-demand and manage each user via their own profile. And since your cloud provider is responsible for infrastructure, you don’t need to worry about maintenance or carry the value of unused equipment or lines. Plus, budgeting on an operating expenses (OpEx) model is predictable and simple.

All signs point to cloud phone technology

If any of those signs are flashing red or yellow in your organization, it’s time to begin exploring what cloud phone technology can do for your business. A solution like MiCloud Connect will adapt to your business needs, ensuring you stay current with the latest technology – and keep customer satisfaction at all-time highs.

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Aruba Recognized by Industry Experts Once Again

MEC Digital — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 03:25:55 +0000

“Customer first, customer last” has long been our corporate mission. Everything we do begins and ends with our customers—from creating smart digital experiences to assembling next-generation networks that amaze with simplicity.

The New Year is a time to reflect on the year’s accomplishments, and our commitment to empowering our customers and partners with Wi-Fi That Works is validated through two recent recognitions.

First, Aruba was named a winner within the 2019 New Products Awards from Spaces4Learning, a publication focused on the physical learning environments in K12 and better education.

Second, we are extremely gratified to be nominated as a finalist for Company of the Year within the Wi-Fi Awards, with the winner to be announced in February.

Transforming the Educational Experience

Technology has radically transformed the educational experience from kindergarten through university studies. Wi-Fi has been an enormous enabler in new ways to interact with students and transform the learning environment, and we are proud to be an important part of this transformation.

Spaces4Learning recognized the Aruba 500 series access point as a Gold winner in its annual awards, which honor the outstanding development achievements that enhance the learning environment. The Aruba 500 series is a high-performance Wi-Fi 6 access point for medium-density environments.

A Vote from the WLAN Trenches

We are eagerly awaiting the people’s final judgment on the Wi-Fi Awards. Nominations are made by a committee of Wi-Fi opinion-leaders and practitioners, then the broader community weighs in to decide on the winners. Winners will be announced at the Wireless LAN Professionals Conference (WLPC).

The Wi-Fi Awards are especially meaningful because the winners are chosen by the community of experts who design, build, deploy and manage networks. they’re within the trenches, and that we are delighted to seek out new ways to simplify their challenges.

The committee recognized Aruba for service on many technology standards bodies and driving standards decisions in key capabilities like Wi-Fi 6, WPA3, Enhanced Open (OWE) and Wi-Fi Easy Connect (DPP). Aruba is additionally actively involved within the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance in driving conversations with the FCC and other global entities in opening up the 6GHz spectrum for unlicensed use by Wi-Fi, as well as playing a leading role to deliver Wi-Fi 6 as an onramp to 5G.

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Where is the Philippine ICT Heading in 2020?

MEC Digital — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:22:14 +0000

Where is the Philippine ICT Heading in 2020?

Philippines is becoming one of the emerging tech regions in Asia as strong public investments are expected to support the country’s economic growth. More than ever, the Philippine Government recognizes the need for strengthening efforts to widen the reach of ICT in the Philippines. In line with this, P5.2 billion is allocated for the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for 2020 to support its efforts in rolling out interconnectivity and data security programs.

Of the overall budget, P1.1 billion will be used to install free WiFi in public places. Some P280 million will be used to fund free Wi-Fi facilities in state universities and colleges while P196 million will be for the National Broadband Plan.

Furthermore, it is also envisioned that around P295 million is needed on creating the National Government Data Center (NGDC) which will serve as the physical infrastructure that will interconnect government agencies through centralized data centers, servers, and storage facilities.

The Market Potential of ICT in the Philippines

According to the 2015 Frost & Sullivan report, there is going to be a shift in total spending in the ASEAN IOT Market. Singapore, the undisputed leader with 44.25% of total IoT spending, will drop by close to the 50%

Singapore 2015

44.25%

Singapore 2020

50%

while the Philippines share will increase by 12%. This only means one thing, the Philippine IoT spending is forecasted to grow from US $55.1M in 2014 to a staggering US $766.8M in 2020. We are about to see the emergence of Philippine’s ICT Market.

Philippines 2015

12.56%

Philippines 2020

24.65%

Considering that the Philippines is a country with a young population that is in the process of building its ICT market, it is poised at creating a government, as well as companies, that are actively looking for partners in the ICT space.

Key Areas in ICT Development:

Back in 2014, Manufacturing and Logistics has the biggest share of spending in ICT. However, the sectors of banking, healthcare and smart city hold a lot of promise for future investments of ICT.

Banking

In a study done by the World Bank, it is said that 69% of Filipinos did not have bank accounts in 2014. This factor, combined with the rise of online shopping, presents a gigantic opportunity for e-wallet operators in the ICT space, as they could easily claim roughly two-thirds of the Philippine population as potential customers.

Healthcare

Meanwhile, in the latest Philippine Statistics Authority report, health-related expenditures pose an 8.3% increase in total spending in 2018 compared to the previous year contributing 4.6% to the country’s GDP. In effect, the Philippine government has been also actively looking at ICT services for healthcare solutions in an effort to provide a sufficient level of health care, especially to rural areas and spread-out island communities.

Smart Cities and Infrastructure

Smart Cities are an important component in growing digital economies, as it incorporates sustainable growth and deep technological integration into the country as well as giving substantial economic boost. The Philippines have planned for multiple smart city projects that will be launched over the next decade such as the New Manila Bay City of Pearl and New Clark City being the core developments. The New Clark City alone is predicted to contribute an additional USD$31 billion to the country’s GDP.

Factors Driving ICT Spending Increases in 2020

Upgrading Infrastructure

We are all aware that the world of technology is fuelled by continuous advancements. Upgrading ICT infrastructures, which remains to be the main driver of ICT spending increase, is an imperative for businesses because keeping legacy ICT infrastructures can expose your business to risks like system downtimes, decreased productivity, security issues, and increased cost.

Growing Security Concerns

The threat of cyberattacks remains as one of the biggest challenges that the Philippines is facing nowadays. The growing number of aggressive and malicious hackers targeting businesses is not to be shrugged off. A study by Frost & Sullivan states that a large-sized organization in the Philippines can possibly incur an economic loss of $7.5 million, more than 200 times higher than the average economic loss for a midsized organization ($35,000). Organizations should invest in a robust unified threat management system that protects their most valuable assets, data and information.

Employee Growth

The abundance of human and talent resources in the Philippines presents an under-tapped national asset that is ripe for mobilization. Building a thriving ICT ecosystem requires a mechanism to complement this opportunity with a conducive policy and business environment that can optimize productivity and increase competitiveness. For instance, ICT innovations, such as higher broadband speeds first introduced through the BPO sector’s rigorous global requirements, are slowly becoming mainstream requirement in other industries like banking, education, the government, and even at home.

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In the end, we at MEC look forward to how the private and government sectors will strengthen the partnership and move past industry boundaries to build on the momentum of digital growth that will promote balanced regulation, empowered innovative endeavors, and boosted competitiveness for inclusive growth of all Filipinos.

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Mitel: Questions To Ask Your Vendor About Secured Communications

MEC Digital — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:44 +0000

5 Questions Ask To Your Vendor About Secure Communications

Are your communications secure?

Secure communications can defend your business from the harm and destruction of a data breach. And it’s not only for healthcare providers – even daily workplace emails and phone calls can contain information that matters to your customers.

A business that fails to secure its communications is in peril of losing client confidence, that means customers, and future customers, won’t be likely to trust that business.

To ensure secure communications, search for a communications system that can defend the data shared inside your business and beyond. Here are a couple of questions you can raise your vendor to make sure you’re getting the most effective security:

1. What Infrastructure Is Your System Hosted On?

A strong cloud communications provider will be leveraging a best-in-class infrastructure to make sure the very best level of security. This saves you time and resources that can be focused on performance and innovation instead of management and maintenance. Search for a secure communications software system, such as MiCloud Connect, built on Google Cloud, to integrate with the programs you already use.

2. Can Your Communications Software Handle Mobile Securely?

Working on the go is a growing norm, which means mobility is even more vital for a communications system. However, a mobile system doesn’t always mean it’s secure. Make sure you can take your system on the go to keep working while away from the workplace, without sacrificing your in-office functionality and security.

3. Is Your Communications Software Certified HIPAA-Compliant?

Certified HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant software guarantees that your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with anti-virus protection and security protocols that adhere to the most rigorous data compliance standards. In creating MiCloud Connect, we worked with third-party auditors to meet restrictive compliance needs and passed strict safeguards and confidentiality tests to make sure the privacy and safety of your data.

4. How Do You Monitor Your System?

Your cloud communications provider ought to have a Network Operations Center, a location that regularly monitors a telecommunications network, all day, every day. Do they support it in-house or out-source? What tools and analytics are they leveraging to stay ahead? Top providers are predictive and proactive, not reactive.

5. How Do I get Informed Of Any Issues?

No system is perfect, problems will appear, but if they do occur with your communications system, you need to know about it quickly. Transparency is everything. Is your provider proactive in their communications? how do they alert you once issues arise? Is there a public site where you can stay up to date regarding any problems and their solutions?

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A Peek Inside Aruba’s Smart Digital Workplace Ecosystem

MEC Digital — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:38:26 +0000

The Workplace of the Future is Here Today

Aruba is collectively tackling the distinctive intersection of physical design and workplace technology to continually evolve our ‘future of work’ vision.

The latest santa clara headquarters design combines Aruba’s networking and location technologies to deal with key use cases. This provides advantages for workers and facilities groups. The workplace includes partner innovations like connected furniture, wireless charging, phone pods, and soundscaping.

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Aruba Named As the Sole Leader in the Forrester New Wave

MEC Digital — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:44:51 +0000

“Aruba Leads the Pack” is how Forrester puts it in their recent report, The Forrester New Wave: Wireless Solutions, Q3 2019 – The Eight Solutions That Matter Most and How They Stack Up. The objective of the report is to assist infrastructure and operations professionals to choose the proper partner for their requirements for both Wi-Fi and the burgeoning need to connect a large range of IoT devices and protocols as a part of their digital transformation.

Aruba is the only vendor within the “Leaders” class, delivering, in our opinion, a commanding performance that features a differentiated rating, the highest possible in 6 out of the 10 evaluation criteria provided by Forrester:

Wireless connectivity
Wireless hardware
Spectrum/device visibility
Security
Solution positioning
Road map

Forrester’s view that the new wave of wireless solutions embodies wayfinding, location services, and IoT connectivity aligns closely with the capabilities in Aruba’s wireless portfolio. As Aruba’s CTO, Partha Narasimham says, “the network has become the central nervous system” for IT – enabling services that offer location data and real-time directions, visibility into assets and other people to boost operations and connecting Internet-of-things (IoT) devices to the business to support digital transformation.

Wi-Fi As An IoT Platform is More Than Connectivity

The world of IoT comprises various device types but conjointly a wide variety of protocols. Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee and Bluetooth 5 enable “things” from door locks to electronic shelf labels to insulin monitors to act with the network in order to deliver exceptional user experiences and value to the business.

Traditionally, it’s needed to stand up overlay networks to accommodate these protocols, but now, as highlighted within the Forrester report, wireless connectivity solutions should expand beyond Wi-Fi. For this reason, Aruba has integrated support for IoT protocols in our latest Wi-Fi 6 access points and can be allowing new IoT growth radios to assist existing customers to maximize investment protection – for additional data, look into our IoT session at mobility Field Day 4. But you don’t become the leader of the pack by stopping at easy connectivity. Aruba starts at the start of the IoT value chain to deliver a holistic solution—from setup to application integration to a business result. Beyond the networking infrastructure, the main focus of our IoT solution is to simply enable third-party integrations with our ArubaEdge partners, which include:

Siemens – for converged, plant-wide networks that bridge OT and IT.
EnOcean – for connected lighting, sensors, and different systems
SES-Imagotag – for electronic shelf labels
Solu-M – for electronic shelf labels
Zebra Technologies – for tablets, imagers, scanners, and printers
ZF Openmatics – for industrial-grade asset tracking solutions
And additional partners listed on our IoT ecosystem

The Aruba wireless LAN is front-and-center, providing Dynamic Segmentation to deliver intelligent deep packet review that isolates mission-critical applications, separates them from the remainder of the network and forwards their traffic to the suitable destination. This level of insight is essential to make sure that the network is optimized for the convergence of IoT systems while minimizing the impact on mobile users.

Based on Forrester’s evaluation, Aruba is the best fit for corporations needing advanced wireless services – and this is why we believe they named Aruba as the Leader in this business-critical spectrum.

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Facing the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

MEC Digital — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:07:49 +0000

In the Philippines, the Cybersecurity Awareness Month is held every September, while in the U.S, it’s celebrated in October. In both occasions, it is a collaborative effort between the government and the industry to raise awareness on how crucial and important Cybersecurity is. However, the real question is, “Is awareness enough?”

Studies revealed that there’s a shortage of talent to fill cybersecurity positions all over the world. Unfilled cybersecurity jobs due to a severe scarcity of available individuals with the right skills are currently estimated to be close to 3 million globally. That’s quite a number, considering the changing threat landscape and the increasing frequency of cyber-attacks organizations must face.

This talent pool problem is not new. The issue has been highlighted by the industry for the last 5 to 10 years. The cybersecurity skill gap continues to accelerate and is now considered one of the top cybersecurity risks faced by many organizations.

A Systematic Issue

In this age of data breach, the real challenge goes beyond the lack of professionals. There is not enough interest generated in schools. This leads to fewer graduates with technical skills and discipline. Even today’s technology users suffer from a lack of knowledge on basic threats, putting the organization they work for at risk. All these branches out from the failure to understand that cybersecurity is everyone’s job.

How can Tech Providers Help?

Closing the talent gap will require support from both the public and private sectors through education, training, and mentoring for both professional and everyday tech users. Since the threat landscape is evolving, proper and regular cybersecurity updates become an imperative for individuals and organizations.

MEC Networks has a proven track record of providing trainings and enabling customers through regular knowledge transfer initiatives. Through this, we guarantee that our clients receive quality support and information in every stage of their ICT development. If you would like to arrange an in-depth workshop for you and your organization, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

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Aruba Named As A Leader in 2019 Magic Quadrant For Wired And Wireless Access Infrastructure By Gartner

MEC Digital — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0000

We excited to share that for fourteen years running, Gartner has once again positioned HPE (Aruba), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, as a leader within the Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure. We believe you don’t get to be a leader without the backing and support of the customers who implement the technology. Our Leader placement is a validation of Aruba’s mobile-first, cloud-native, AI-driven vision and our ability to deliver extremely valued wired and wireless capabilities to the market.

Dynamic Segmentation utilizes user role, device, application, and location insights from Aruba’s Policy enforcement Firewall (PEF) to section and isolate wired and wireless traffic based on centralized policies managed by ClearPass Policy Manager.

Commitment to improving customer outcomes

Our core strategy is to provide solutions that deliver world-class experiences for IT operators and their users. the following capabilities are a testament to that strategy:

Security and Compliance – Security is at the heart of the Aruba solution and is used in a range of key use cases to provide IT with advanced visibility and management. employing a distinctive, software-defined approach to policy, Aruba’s Dynamic Segmentation capability dramatically simplifies network operations by abstracting segmentation from the underlying infrastructure. A complement to Dynamic Segmentation, Aruba’s new ClearPass Device Insight (CDI) is purpose-built to handle the challenges related to securing IoT devices that can’t authenticate. It leverages machine learning and crowdsourcing to automate the discovery and fingerprinting of all IoT devices on any wired or Wi-Fi network – regardless of the vendor. ClearPass Device Insight’s cloud delivery platform leverages shared community learnings to spot newly-introduced devices and automates authentication and policy enforcement down to the device and user level. If any device exhibits abnormal behavior, ClearPass will automatically quarantine or remove it from the network mitigating the safety risk. Learn more regarding CDI here.
Automation – From provisioning to troubleshooting to remediation, Aruba has worked closely with customers to spot common challenges in an attempt to simplify the lives of IT operators. By introducing automation into the network life cycle, IT can take advantage of closed-loop monitoring, troubleshooting, and remediation to optimize the network experience and accelerate problem-solving. AOS-CX is a marquee example of how this can be delivered to enterprise networks. Learn more during this blog by Tom Black, and dive deeper into switching innovations like NetEdit and the Network Analytics Engine (NAE).
Artificial Intelligence – to retort quickly to dynamic business desires, IT should unendingly optimize the allocation of its resources to target strategic company priorities. Aruba’s comprehensive and various information sample size, combined with decades of domain and information science experience, is manufacturing helpful security and network configuration outcomes that free IT operators to target strategic priorities that grow the business. each device and connection is treated as a network sensor, proactively gathering and analyzing information to detect potential network problems and suggest corrective actions before they impact end-users. Learn more from HPE Discover 2019.

Aruba’s Edge Architecture

As our customers commence a journey through today’s mobile, IoT, and cloud era, Aruba’s edge architecture provides the intelligence, automation, and flexibility needed to achieve higher security, assurance, and agility. Extending across campus and branch environments, Aruba designed our solutions to be cloud-native, and ensure a uniform IT experience and seamless connectivity for end-users and IoT.

About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner doesn’t endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its analysis publications, and doesn’t advise technology users to select solely those vendors with the best ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of truth. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, concerning this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, Bill Menezes, Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Mike Toussaint, 24 September 2019 Aruba’s 14 years of placement includes HPE (Aruba) within the Magic Quadrant for the Wired & Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2015-2019 (5 years), Aruba Networks in the same Magic Quadrant from 2012-2014 (3 years) and in the Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2006-2011 (6 years).

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