Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today introduced its new EdgeConnect Microbranch solution, a home office and small office networking solution for hybrid work environments.
Secure services
EdgeConnect Microbranch offers the services that staff working in hybrid work environments would expect if they were working in-office. Services are delivered securely via a single Wi-Fi access point (AP) with no gateway, agent or additional hardware required at the remote site. IT departments can ensure employee experiences are consistent regardless of location.
EdgeConnect Microbranch comprises APs and a new suite of SD-WAN services that offer robust connectivity, security, and zero touch onboarding experiences to the home office through its popular Remote Access Points (RAPs).
Increasing demands
SD-WAN is critical for dealing with the increasing demands for higher application performance, reliability, and security. As hybrid work environments become the norm, home and small remote offices need automated, policy-based traffic management and cloud-based SASE security to efficiently, robustly, and securely support the hybrid workforce.
Addressing challenges
EdgeConnect Microbranch address common challenges arising from the increasing number of hybrid work environments, such as the need to guarantee the performance of latency-sensitive applications like unified communication and collaboration while ensuring proper security and contending with a higher density of bandwidth-hungry devices that may be on the network. New EdgeConnect Microbranch services such as policy-based routing, which enables IT to optimize how application traffic is routed to a destination, complement existing services such as AirSlice, which dynamically allocates AP radio resources to specific applications.
“EdgeConnect Microbranch gives organizations a modern, scalable approach for enabling remote work and making the home office experience equivalent to being in-office,” said Larry Lunetta, VP of Solutions Portfolio Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company .“While some may believe that the only network service that can be extended to the home office AP/router is security–and even that requires an extra box– EdgeConnect Microbranch demonstrates that, with a cloud-based approach, all critical network services can be extended to the home office solely through an access point.”
By extending the already robust RAP in-home experience with key SD-WAN features, EdgeConnect Microbranch offers a solution for hybrid operations like contact centers, telehealth, and IT management, where uptime and security are critical.
ITP.net recently interviewed Jacob Chacko, Regional Director – Middle East, Saudi and South Africa at Aruba at GITEX 2021 about the company’s EdgeServices platform, hybrid work and more.
