Recently,Aruba launched Instant On's new wireless products and solutions to meet the latest wireless network demands in the fast-growing small and medium-sized business(SMB)market. The family includes five indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi access points (Instant On AP11,Instant On AP12,Instant On AP15,Instant OnAP11D,Instant On AP17) that provide secure, high-speed wireless network connectivity and improve setup and management efficiency to support businesses withhigh-quality wireless network performance.

The launch of Instant On has undoubtedly strengthened Aruba's determination and confidence to enter the small and medium-sized business market. In the face of a global strategy to accelerate the expansion of the SMB market, Amol Mitra, Aruba's Global Vice President and General Manager of the SME Division, believes that it has five advantages:

• First,Aruba is a manufacturer of enterprise networks that has accumulated many technical advantages in enterprise-class products, including security, manageability, and so on, so that it can bring these advantages to the SMB market as quickly as available.

• Second, based on its understanding of the SMB market,Aruba has tailored special features to the SMB market, including features such as Smart Mesh, that are important to SMB customers.

• Third,Aruba products make it easy to manage all devices with mobile apps without having to turn to any IT professionals.

• Fourth, there are no hidden costs in products released by Aruba, and users can use all of their features directly without having to purchase software licenses or subscription services, with no additional expense.

• Fifth, in terms of after-sales support,Aruba not only supports relatively traditional after-sales methods such as telephone and online customer service, but also establishes an online community where users can get help directly from the community, such as device tutorials and videos.

Amol Mitra, Aruba's Global Vice President and General Manager of the Small and Medium Enterprises Business Unit, addressed the conference

In addition,Amol Mitra notes, "Today, small and medium-sized businesses are in desperate need of an enterprise-class Wi-Fi solution that provides uninterrupted network connectivity, is easy to manage, and can easily scale to meet business needs for the ultimate wireless experience, so the Instant On family of products is created." ”

It is understood that, based on the Instant On family of products, each site can establish a cluster pattern, and according to the cluster mode management, in cluster mode can support up to 25 different models of AP networking. ucts in the Instant On family arecompatible and can be connected to a hybrid network through wired or Mesh," adds Zhai Shidan, technical sales director for Aruba China. ”

Simple, flexible, secure wireless environment

In fact,the instant On family of products is characterized by its management convenience and flexible scalability of the business. Its simple, intuitive mobile app network manager, for example, makes it easy for users to set up and manage devices, which is consistent with the simplicity and ease of management in Aruba's commercial Wi-Fi.

In addition, depending on the needs of the business, users can flexibly scale the number of access points to 25 and easily extend the network to any area that is difficult to route with intelligent Mesh technology, including ceiling, wall hanging, and desktop installation options to accommodate a variety of SMB deployment environments.

Amol Mitra(left) and Nie Shidan (right) introduce Aruba Instant On to guests

At the sametime, Amol Mitra further emphasizes the security of Instant On. "In the IoT era, the security of the device itself will face more challenges, so the security of the AP at the edge of the network is even more important," he said. In Instant On wireless solutions, not only do devices support the latest WPA3 wireless encryption protocols, but Aruba has targeted scenarios for endpoint identification, traffic encryption, access control, and more, providing strong security for enterprise users at the forefront of network access. ”

Make the edge of the network smarter

In addition to being simple, flexible, and secure,Instant On also makes us smarter on the edge of network access,says Amol Mitra, "a lot of smart edge devices in the future will need to make decisions in real time in the field, but at the same time rely on decisions in the cloud, which will result in a lot of data being transferred between cloud and smart edge devices." tion between smart edge devices and the cloud more stable and secure. ”

It isunderstood that the Instant On family of products itself, although not directly through the cloud management, but through mobile APP to manage and configure the device, but the APP itself is managed by the cloud. otes that"Aruba provides a cloud-managed architecture in enterprise solutions, including Instant products that can be managed by Aruba Central available on AWS China." , on the other hand, offers two management modes through mobile applications or cloud-based web portals. ”

In addition,"Aruba has a very unique technological advantage in terms of seamless roaming and is a patented technology of Aruba called ClientMatch." elps users detect which terminal is closer to which AP, has a stronger signal, and helps terminals switch to a closer, more signaled AP in a timely manner through technical means. ”

According to Amol Mitra, Aruba's overall smart edge solutions are currently focused on five industries: education, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. In addition, we will focus on high-density scenes (e.g. stadiums, railway stations, airports, etc.), as well as real estate and other fields. As a result, Aruba Smart Edge solutions will optimize many scenarios for these industries in the future.

Amol Mitra concludes, "We're investing $4 billion over the next four years in research and development specifically for the Smart Edge." From HPE's point of view, not only Aruba's network products, but also capabilities such as edge computing, will be the focus of our future investment. ”

The Aruba Instant On MU-MIMO dual-frequency Gigabit Mesh Wireless AP series is available at McFly's JD.com store for more details.

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Beijing McFly Technology Co., Ltd., is committed to providing customers in different industries with basic networking and security, cloud computing and virtualization, application delivery, custom development and other overall solutions and services. In 2013, McFly partnered with Aruba and, with a dedicated sales and technical team, was named "Partner of the Year" and "Best Technical Service" as Aruba's first Platinum Partner and Certified Platinum Service Partner in China.