软件定义的分支将简单与性能融为一体

Branches are where business is increasingly done today. High real-estate costs, workplace flexibility, and the requirement to cover a growing geographical area is driving the need for business-class experiences—regardless of where a user connects. IT organizations are now challenged with quickly modernizing their branch environments to provide the user experience, app performance, and security needed to meet evolving business goals.

For retail stores, hotels, healthcare clinics, and other distributed organizations, these new demands mean that IT teams must have the ability to centrally manage the onboarding of new LAN and WAN infrastructure. Most distributed enterprises have few (or no) technical staff in the branch. Nor do they have the budget flexibility to send someone onsite. Regardless, they need to deliver business-class experiences everywhere, while lowering the cost of deployment and ongoing services.

最后，分支机构内的移动设备和物联网设备的日益增长的使用需要对如何为用户和设备应用和执行安全策略的整体方法。该分支机构的地理分布性质使得查看正在连接的内容，保护分支免受外部和内部威胁的影响很大，并在需要时，将不需要的设备或用户从网络中删除。

To help organizations enhance the branch experience and to make IT more agile, Aruba has introduced ourSoftware-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) solution,a full-stack approach for managing a branch in today’s digital era. Our new solution combines Aruba’s industry leading wireless and wired solutions, a new portfolio of Branch Gateways for WAN deployments, and a comprehensive security model that includes built-in infrastructure features, Aruba ClearPass, and best-of-breed cloud unified threat management (UTM) partnerships.

我们的SD分支解决方案的优点是部署和管理简单性，从LAN到WAN的集成安全性和策略管理，以及优化的经验，使最终用户和他们使用的应用程序受益。组织可以有效地强制实施物联网和其他设备的连接，可以与之通信以及如何分割其流量。

SD-WAN迁移
随着组织部署软件定义的WAN（SD-WAN）解决方案，以增强或更换MPLS电路，他们会灵活地利用宽带电路，提高敏捷性并降低费用。通过添加Aruba分支网关，企业可以从单个玻璃窗格中集中管理其连线，无线和WAN基础架构。

Aruba’s SD-Branch gateways also include a built-in policy application and user-aware firewall, dynamic segmentation, and the ability to tunnel to third-party cloud UTMs. This enables IT organizations to leverage one consistent approach for enforcement and monitoring of all traffic, regardless of how someone or something connects. Transport independence and intelligent application optimization features ensure a high level of performance.

转向该分支机构的SD-WAN模型的业务成果和节省可能是戏剧性的。这仅占MPLS成本的一小部分，可以通过减少对昂贵链接的依赖来节省额外的成本，总体而言，在不牺牲可靠性或安全性的情况下提供绩效收益。

优化的分支体验
With LAN, WAN, and security solutions that work together, performance and user and device context are no longer opposing principles, but rather, a way to deliver the best possible experiences. We believe that by leveraging contextual data regarding who and what is connected to the LAN helps make granular decisions for how to handle the traffic that goes into and out of the branch as well.

借助Aruba基于角色的访问功能，IT组织可以轻松地将策略执行与拓扑层分开。这简化了如何应用和执行所有分支机构的服务质量（QoS）和安全策略，因此用户和设备将获得一致的体验，无论位置如何。

Features within the Branch Gateways, such as policy-based routing and dynamic path steering, can now leverage this contextual data to dynamically route traffic across the WAN based on user, device, or group affiliation. Retail organizations can easily prioritize point-of-sale (PoS) system and video traffic versus guest traffic. Hotels can prioritize the voice traffic for anyone involved with customer service.

一个独特的优势
We believe that the integration of the LAN and WAN infrastructure provides our customers with a unique advantage for how a branch network is deployed and managed in the digital era. With the launch of Aruba’s SD-Branch solution, we’re delivering more than what is possible with solutions that include separate SD-WAN offerings that cannot leverage valuable user and device context and are managed separately.

The amazing part of this journey is that the integration and use of granular contextual data for policy enforcement is just the start. As we go forward, imagine the possibilities. Insights from this same contextual data can be used to proactively identify network and security issues, sends alerts to the IT team, and in some cases, automatically adjust the network for changing performance demands and security threats.

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