About the Author
Mark Verbloot is director of systems engineering, Asia Pacific Japan at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Mark has been at Aruba since 2006, when he became the first technical employee in Australia.
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Aruba Central got its start back way in 2013, when we introduced a brand-new cloud-based management service for Aruba Instant access points. Those were the days when people were excited about the blazing 300Mbps speeds of 802.11n and Aruba’s solution to the “sticky client” problem was a technology breakthrough. The goal of Aruba Central was to allow network administrators to manage the Wi-Fi in their remote offices without needing an on-site technical expertise.
当时，Central是一个基于云的简单管理平台。Aruba通过集成分析和保证，SD-Branch和SD-WAN以及设备安全性将基于云的网络管理大大提高到了云。而且，我们重新设计了核心，以极大地增加规模和地理范围。
Central Expands Across APAC
Using local instances of the cloud-based Central improves performance and reduces latency, which is especially important given the great distances across APAC. Data sovereignty is important for many customers, as they need to comply with different countries’ laws governing the control and storage of sensitive data.
随着第2.5版的引入，Central现在在亚太地区的四个地区运行。除了在孟买的原始实例外，我们还在悉尼，东京和中国推出了中央。距悉尼距孟买10,000多公里，我对澳大利亚客户的迅速响应时间感到非常兴奋。
总体而言，Aruba在Apac，美国和加拿大以及欧洲的Central中拥有20个生产群。Aruba还经营中央的30个研发簇。Central扩展了为客户管理超过75万设备的设备，并且有足够的增长空间。
中央继续发展
Aruba Central reduces siloed network operations by providing one place for all monitoring and management functions and presenting network-wide AI-based insights, so IT can quickly obtain the information needed to deliver great network experiences at the edge.
Integration of Aruba’s Analytics and Assurance capabilities into Central allows IT managers to resolve infrastructure problems before they impact the user experience. And IT can proactively optimize their infrastructure for a better user experience.
With integrated SD-Branch and SD-WAN management capabilities, IT can centrally monitor and control business-intent policies at branch locations and reduce the need for skilled IT professionals onsite. IT staff can use the SD-WAN Orchestrator Now capability in Central to provision gateway connectivity at scale and simplify WAN management.
Aruba ClearPass Device Insight is also integrated into Central, enabling IT to automatically discover and fingerprint IoT devices.
A Cloud Platform Designed for Maximum Agility
To create a scalable, global platform to that can support the specific requirements of different regions, we developed the latest version of Central as a cloud-native application. Central runs on AWS, and can be deployed on other cloud platforms.
Paul Migliorini, managing director of Australia and New Zealand for AWS, joins Keerti Melkote, Aruba CEO, onstage during the Atmosphere APAC keynote to introduce the latest Central.Watch.
With Amazon as our partner and Central’s composable cloud architecture, we can scale Central quickly, easily and efficiently pretty much anywhere in the world. With Central’s modern architecture, our DevOps team can quickly add new and different capabilities to meet customers’ specific needs, such Device Insight or PCI compliance, in a particular region. We can turn up an entirely new instance in a new geography in a matter of hours. And we can easily scale Central both up and down to meet ever-changing customer needs.
更深入
Watch Keerti Melkote introduce Central’s latest capabilities at Atmosphere APAC.
Read more about Central’s network operations and assurance capabilities.
