HPE2-W11 Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions Question and Answers

HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise is designed for cloud-first organizations that need a secure network foundation for Zero Trust and SASE. It provides a first-class SD-WAN paired with a next-generation firewall, delivering unmatched quality of experience and advanced security1. HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-Branch, on the other hand, is a simplified solution for the software-defined branch, encompassing each element within a branch—WAN, WLAN, wired, and security2.

References: 1: Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN | HPE Aruba Networking3: HPE ARUBA NETWORKING EDGECONNECT SD-WAN FAMILY - DATASHEET4: About - Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN2: Aruba EdgeConnect SD-Branch | HPE Aruba Networking

HPE Aruba Networking Central is a cloud-based network management solution that simplifies IT operations, improves agility, and reduces costs by unifying management of all network infrastructure. It eliminates the need for customers to invest in, deploy, and maintain on-premises management tools, and provides a single pane of glass for managing campus, branch, remote, data center, and IoT networks from one dashboard.

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•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 13: “Aruba Central is the cloud-native, single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP. It provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services.”

•Aruba Central for Cloud-managed networking | HPE Aruba Networking: “Built on a cloud-native, microservices architecture, Central is an AI-powered solution that simplifies IT operations, improves agility, and reduces costs by unifying management of all network infrastructure.”

•HPE Aruba Central | HPE United Kingdom - Hewlett Packard Enterprise: “Simplify how you provision, configure, and maintain networks by orchestrating all operations from a cloud-native dashboard. Aruba Central is your single point of visibility and control to oversee every aspect of wired and wireless LANs, WANs, and VPNs across campus, branch, remote, and data center locations.”

HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) solutions enable customers to deliver a consistent and secure network experience to remote and hybrid workers, regardless of their location or device. By using HPE Aruba Networking Central, customers can define and enforce granular, role-based policies that are automatically applied across the network, from the edge to the cloud. This simplifies network management and enhances security and compliance.

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•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 12: “Aruba ESP enables IT to deliver a consistent and secure network experience to remote and hybrid workers, regardless of their location or device.”

•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 13: “Aruba Central is the cloud-native, single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP. It provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services.”

•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 14: “Aruba Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) is a key component of Aruba ESP that provides granular, role-based access control and security for wired and wireless networks. PEF enables IT to define and enforce policies based on user identity, device type, location, time, and application, across the network from the edge to the cloud.”

HPE Aruba Networking Central with AIOps is a cloud-based networking solution that empowers IT with AI-powered insights, intuitive visualizations, workflow automation, and edge-to-cloud security to manage campus, branch, remote, data center, and IoT networks from one dashboard1. It can address the customer requirement of having an efficient and effective IT team by simplifying network operations, reducing manual tasks, providing proactive remediation, and optimizing network performance2.

References: 1: Aruba Central for Cloud-managed networking | HPE Aruba Networking2: AIOps for IT efficiency | HPE Aruba Networking

HPE Aruba Networking location-based services provide geographic context for applications such as wayfinding, asset tracking, and marketing campaigns. One of the features that sets them apart from the competition is that the latest HPE Aruba Networking APs can automatically locate themselves using GPS and help automate the placement of APs on maps, eliminating the need for costly and error-prone manual surveys12.

References: 1: Location Services | Meridian, Tags & Beacons | HPE Aruba Networking2: Bring the ease and accuracy of GPS to indoor location services

HPE Aruba Networking Central with AIOps is a cloud-native network management solution that leverages artificial intelligence to provide full-stack insights for enhanced root cause analysis, impact assessment, and recommendations. It helps IT teams simplify network operations and improve productivity by reducing manual tasks and proactively identifying and resolving network issues before they affect users and business applications.

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•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 13: “Aruba Central is the cloud-native, single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP. It provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services.”

•Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 15: “Aruba Central with AIOps provides AI-powered full-stack insights for enhanced root cause analysis (RCA), impact assessment, and recommendations. It helps IT teams simplify network operations and improve productivity by reducing manual tasks and proactively identifying and resolving network issues before they affect users and business applications.”

•HPE Aruba Networking simplifies IT operations with AIOps-driven cloud management and new network-as-a-service capabilities available on HPE GreenLake: “To alleviate time spent on network troubleshooting and optimization, the HPE Aruba Networking Central cloud network management platform has been re-designed to simplify operations and improve productivity by leveraging artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to reduce manual tasks, so stretched networking teams can focus on more strategic and higher-value projects.”

•HPE Aruba network platforms gain AIOps, Agile NaaS: “The next generation of HPE Aruba Networking Central will leverage artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), providing AI-powered full-stack insights for enhanced root cause analysis (RCA), impact assessment and recommendations.”