Aruba Networks and

the Future of WiFi

Troy Wendt
Director, Product Marketing
Aruba Networks
EDUCAUSE
October 18, 2005
Agenda
Company Overview
Product Overview
Education Applications
Emerging WLAN Standards
Evolution of the Wireless Edge
Aruba Networks
Company Overview
Aruba Snapshot
Founded February, 2002
Status Privately-held
Funding $59M in three rounds
Investors Matrix, Sequoia, Trinity,
WK Technology Fund
Revenue First 6 quarters have
exceeded comparables of
NetApp, NetScreen, and Foundry
Innovations Mobility controllers
Customers 1000+ (adding over 100/quarter)
Employees 200 and counting
Markets Intersection of wireless, security
and mobility
 Leading with Vision & Execution

Magic Quadrant for Wireless LANs 2005

Ability
to
Execute

"When we make product decisions,

we make them based on the best
technology For our needs, Aruba
Completeness
came out No. 1." of Vision
- Ron Markezich, CIO, Microsoft
CNET News.com, June 30, 2005
Centralization is the Big Idea
Centralized Architecture for Enterprise Wireless has Won the Day

Centralized
Security

Policy Control
Secure Mobility
Stateful Firewall
Wireless IDP
Encryption
Fat
Access Points
Authentication
Thin
802.11a/b/g
Access Points
Antennas
Enterprise Architecture for Wireless
Firewall
A New Approach to Enterprise Wireless

Secure Mobility
Mobility
Gateway controllers

Wireless
Intrusion
Detection

Distributed
Wireless
Sniffers

RF Spectrum Mobility
Management software

VPN
Wired/wireless
access points
The Big Story is Mobility
Disruptive Change Cycles in Network Computing

Mobile
Networks
- Aruba
Internet
Ethernet - Cisco
- 3Com - Juniper
- SynOptics
- Novell
PC
- IBM
- Apple
Mini
Mainframe -DEC
-Data General
- IBM
-Wang

60s 70s 80s 90s 00s

Broad-based Market Acceptance
Marquee Customers Crossing All Verticals and Geographies
Aruba Networks
Product Overview
 Aruba Mobility Controller Family
Scalable and Flexible
Performance & Capacity
800: 4 and 16 AP Options 1Gb 16Gb
2400: Support for 48 APs
6000: Scales from 48 to 512 APs
Full Redundancy Options
6000
Support For Virtual Stacking

2400

800

Price
Starting at $2K
Aruba Access Point Family
Single Radio
Software Configurable 802.11a or b/g
Radio Thin-AP / AM
Ideal for Dense Dorm or Classroom
Deployments
Internal or External Antenna Options
Low Cost
Dual Radio
Dual-Radio 802.11 a+b/g Thin-AP / AM
Ideal for Remote AP Applications
High Availability Features
Wired and Wireless Security
Extensible USB Interface Port
Outdoor APs
Dual-Radio WDS Bridging / Thin-AP
Functionality
Fully Environmentally-Hardened Design
Desert, Snow, Rain, Harsh Environment
ArubaOS - Base Software
BASE SOFTWARE FEATURES
WLAN Switching and RF Management
L2/L3 switching, VLANs, termination of Aruba wired & wireless APs, RF Plan/RF Live, location tracking, triangulation

Radio Resource Management (ARM)

Calibration, coverage hole detection / correction, interference detection / correction, multi-band RF scanning

Authentication
MAC, local user DB, LDAP, AAA, wired and wireless 802.1x

Association Types
Open, Static and Dynamic WEP, WPA, WPA2

Mobility Services
Roaming across APs, VLANs and switches

Intrusion Detection
Rogue AP detection, interfering APs / clients, classification, (no containment)
ArubaOS - Software Modules
ADD-ON MODULES

Policy Enforcement Firewall Module

VPN Server Module
Wireless Intrusion Protection Module
Advanced AAA Module
Client Integrity Module
External Services Interface Module
xSec Module
Remote AP Module
How Its Deployed:
Non-disruptive
DATA CENTER DEPLOYMENTto ExistingWIRING
Network
CLOSET DEPLOYMENT
FLOOR 1 FLOOR 1

ARUBA 800
FLOOR 2 FLOOR 2

10/100 Mbps

10/100 Mbps
ARUBA 2400
DATA CENTER DATA CENTER

ARUBA 6000
BACKBONE BACKBONE
Education
Applications
Students and Faculty Love Wireless
Availability of content anytime
and anywhere
Students expect and demand
wireless access for their mobile
lifestyle
Faculty likes the collaboration,
creativity fostered by wireless
Proliferation of personal WiFi
enabled devices
Why Network Admins Prefer Wireless
No building renovation needed, no
pulling new cables in historic
buildings
Easily installed in common areas
(quad, union, gym, cafeteria)
Easier to deploy, manage and
troubleshoot
Easy to expand as needs grow
expansion costs (few APs) small
enough not to require formal
budgetary approval
Considerations for Education
Financial
Lower cost of deployment
Deploy Thin APs & eliminate site surveys
Leveraging existing infrastructure
Dont upgrade your Layer 2 infrastructure
Ease of Management
Centralize management and control
Self-healing, self-calibrating RF environment
Reduce VLAN proliferation
Centralized architecture means no need to configure VLANs all over
existing network
Security
Identity based access control
Students, Faculty, Staff all have pre-assigned privileges that follow
users
Safeguarding against intrusion
Control access to wireless
Build robust systems that can resist students who like to
experiment
Provide comprehensive end-point security
Filter network traffic for viruses and unauthorized content
Emerging WLAN
Standards
802.11e Task Group
Group charter is Quality of Service
Close to completing work that will allow for improvements in the
way multimedia and prioritized traffic classes are handled.
802.11e enhances the MAC layer with a coordinated time division
multiple access (TDMA) construct.
Adds error-correcting mechanisms for delay-sensitive applications
such as voice and video.
802.11e is especially well suited for use in networks that include
multimedia capability. It offers all subscribers high-speed Internet
access with full-motion video, high-fidelity audio, and Voice over
IP
Software Upgrade for Aruba Mobility Controllers
802.11i Task Group
Group charter is Enhanced Encryption
802.11i is the security standard for Wi-Fi networks that upgrades
WEP.
802.11i has all the abilities of WPA and adds the requirement to
use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for data encryption.
The Wi-Fi Alliance uses the nomenclature of "WPA2" when referring
to 802.11i
Software Upgrade for Aruba Mobility Controllers
802.11n Task Group
Group Charter is High Throughput
This group will define the next physical-layer specification allowing
throughput speed in excess of 100 Mbps.
Ratification expected in 2006
802.11n is planned to be backwards-compatible with legacy
802.11b/g wireless hardware
Pre-standard MIMO chipsets are shipping from Airgo Networks
Software Upgrade for Aruba Mobility Controllers
The Wireless Voice Opportunity
Voice is the most widely
deployed wireless
application today
Corded and cellular
technologies not suited for
education environments
Coverage
Portability
Telephone system integration
Cost
Wireless and VoIP
technologies are lowering
cost of deployment
Evolution of the
Wireless Edge
Mobility An Irreversible Trend
The Education IT Context

Mobile Mobile Mobile

Instruction Point of Sale Connectivity

1 User Installed Lose Control 2 Users Demands Mobility

OR

Voice Location RFID

Mobility Services Solutions

3 Compelling Economics 4 New Applications

Mobility is All About the User
USER IDENTITY USER LOCATION USER DEVICE/APPLICATION

Who the Where the What the

user is user is user is using
Mobility Changes Everything
The edge of the network
will become wireless
Mobility creates the requirement
for an interior security solution
Mobile applications are changing
the way educational institutions
compete
Aruba Value Proposition
A Converged Solution for Mobility, Security and VOIP
1. Deliver a competitive advantage
The industrys most secure mobility system
2. Fix security with a network-based approach
A single centralized solution for interior security
3. Enable convergence over wireless
Mobile VoIP eliminates closet PoE upgrades
4. Eliminate network upgrades
Save millions of dollars
5. Reduce operational costs
Centrally manage change with a programmable architecture
Backup
WiMAX
WiMAX is the recently approved IEEE 802.16 wireless metropolitan
area network (MAN) standard .
WiMAX provides connectivity up to several miles as opposed to a
couple hundred feet for 802.11a/b/g.
Less expensive than cellular infrastructure equipment.
Some industry experts claim that WiMAX could become a threat to
the cell phone industry, which is investing in 3G to offer advanced
mobile data services
WiMAX will provide backhaul for 802.11 networks
802.11s Task Group
Group Charter is Mesh Networking
Every device in a network becomes capable of repeating or
relaying data to a node that is farther away from the access point
MESH becomes a method for extending the reach of a given
infrastructure.
802.11s aims to define a MAC and PHY for meshed networks that
improve coverage with no single point of failure.
In such networks, 802.11 cellular WLAN access points relay
information from one to another, hop by hop, in a router-like
fashion. As you add users and access points, you add capacity.
Adding nodes becomes a scalable and redundant endeavor
Meshed networks can serve as indoor or outdoor networks run
wireless ISPs or enterprises with large outdoor deployments.
Software Upgrade for Aruba Mobility Controllers
UWB
Similar to Bluetooth but around 100x faster.
Ultra-wideband or UWB is used to transmit data at high speeds
over very short distances; making UWB perfect for the home
market.
Main challenge: UWB works across a wide range of frequencies as
opposed to most other networking and consumer electronic
technologies which are assigned a narrow band of spectrum.
The Department of Transportation has also raised concerns about
UWB interfering with the GPS systems essential for flying.
Despite concerns, UWB is moving forward in the home networking
market due to its fast transmission rates.
IMS
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is an IP multimedia and
telephony core network that is defined by 3GPP and 3GPP2
standards and organizations based on IETF Internet protocols.
IMS is access independent as it supports IP to IP session over
wireline IP, 802.11, 802.15, CDMA, packet data along with
GSM/EDGE/UMTS and other packet data applications.
IMS is a standardized reference architecture that consists of
session control, connection control and an applications services
framework along with subscriber and services data.
 802.11k Task Group

Group Charter is Radio Resources

Service operators and enterprise customers are expected to deploy
the features coming from this group to better manage the
connections between wireless devices and access points/gateways.
The proposed standard provides measurement information to make
wireless networks more efficient.
Enables standards-based applications for PDAs and other wireless
edge devices
Software Upgrade for Aruba Mobility Controllers