As part of this effort, Juniper is enabling technology partners, like Aruba, to take advantage of Juniper’s programmable silicon by making available key software elements and new programmable application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the High-IQ enterprise – an open, smart approach to enterprise networking that allows customers to fundamentally transform the user and operator experience. This will help foster industry collaboration to accelerate innovation for customers and partners.
According to Canalys, a global technology research firm, the mobile device market is expected to reach 2.6 billion units by 2016. Efficiently and intelligently managing this influx of devices and traffic has become increasingly difficult and complex for IT departments. Additionally, the rapid adoption of business applications – such as voice-over-Wi-Fi clients – means more comprehensive orchestration is needed, requiring granular policy and performance management to ensure that key applications are secured and optimised.
Together, Juniper and Aruba are addressing these mobility market trends with product-level integration that leverages open protocols and open APIs on Juniper switches and routers, and contextual data on users, devices, applications and location available from Aruba’s enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) products. With this integration, enterprises will be able to optimise application performance, enable mobility-centric security and policy, and reduce total cost of ownership by eliminating vendor lock-in.
Collaboration to integrate Aruba mobility solutions with Juniper enterprise switches and routers, delivering ongoing product innovation to enterprise customers
Simplified management, visibility and policy across company product lines to increase productivity for IT professionals and streamline recurring network operations
Offer a broad set of enterprise-grade indoor and outdoor wireless access products on the market to help customers create a future-ready mobility infrastructure
Multi-phase delivery of an open converged framework, integration of management and policy with exchange of user and device information