Network managers today are faced with three major IT trends that they must address: mobility, security, and convergence. All three trends intersect at the edge of the network — the point where users connect to enterprise services. The edge of the enterprise network today, built on the past decade of networking technology, is a fixed edge. It was designed for a time when users and devices were not mobile.

Aruba's Mobile Edge System enables a new type of edge for the enterprise network — the mobile edge. The mobile edge allows users and devices to connect over the air and across any network, to securely gain access to enterprise resources.

The mobile edge is an evolutionary new architecture that delivers mobility, security and convergence for today's networks and builds on a vision where the enterprise network will ultimately have far fewer ports than today.

Aruba's Mobile Edge System consists of three components:

  1. Mobility controllers which are centralized service delivery platforms for the Mobile Edge
  2. Controlled access points (APs) which tunnel wired & wireless user traffic to mobility controllers over the LAN, WAN and the Internet
  3. Aruba software provides all the intelligence for the Mobile Edge