All, Some informational Q&A in mail received from Juniper:
Frequently Asked Questions information: Question: What are Aruba and Juniper announcing? * Strategic partnership between Juniper and Aruba to deliver converged wired and wireless networking solutions based on each company’s best‐of‐breed technologies. * The partnership includes both joint development efforts and go‐to‐market collaboration with the goal of the following: * Provide comprehensive solutions and more value for customers * Broaden opportunities for Juniper’s and Aruba’s partners to sharpen competitiveness and expand addressable markets * Enable technology partners, like Aruba, to take advantage of Juniper’s open APIs * Help foster industry collaboration to accelerate innovation for customers and partners. * Deliver simplified management, visibility and policy across Juniper and Aruba product lines to increase productivity for IT professionals and streamline recurring network operations Question: Why do you need each other to pursue those opportunities? * Juniper and Aruba are providing product‐level integration that leverages open protocols and open APIs provided on Juniper switches and routers, and Aruba’s contextual data on user, device, application and location. * With this integration, enterprises are able to optimize application performance, enable mobility-centric security and policy, and reduce total cost of ownership by eliminating vendor lock‐in. Question: Is Juniper going to direct its current WLAN customers to all Aruba products? * Juniper is committed to the current line of 802.11n WLAN products. Customers who have existing 11n deployments and would like to continue to expand those networks will continue to have the Juniper WLAN products available. * For new WLAN customers or those who desire the latest in 11ac technology, Juniper will work closely with Aruba to deliver a combined best‐of‐breed wired+wireless network. * For all deals brought to Aruba for their 11ac technology, Juniper switching is the lead switching solution. Question: Juniper Specific: Is this a slow EOL for Juniper’s WLAN product series? * Juniper is committed to the current line of 802.11n WLAN products. Customers who have existing 11n deployments and would like to continue to expand those networks will continue to have the Juniper WLAN products available. Question: Will customers with Juniper WLANs be able to incrementally add Aruba APs to their network? * Juniper WLAN and Aruba APs will operate in the same network infrastructure but not in the same physical space. Customers will not be able to operate Aruba APs with existing Juniper controllers, or operate Juniper APs with Aruba controllers. * Management tools, such as Aruba’s multi-‐vendor AirWave Management Suite, will provide visibility and monitoring for mixed or transitional WLAN environments. Question: In a dual Juniper/Aruba WLAN network, will Juniper’s network management tool also control the Aruba APs or will they need to use two network management tools? * Juniper’s wireless network management tool (Network Director or RingMaster) will not configure or control Aruba wireless infrastructure. Aruba’s AirWave Management Suite will be required to configure Aruba products. AirWave will provide visibility into Juniper wireless infrastructure. Customers will need both Aruba’s AirWave and Juniper Ringmaster systems to configure and control the respective wireless networks. * A key element of the joint roadmap between Juniper and Aruba is to provide end‐to‐end visibility in Juniper’s Network Director management system on users and applications accessing both Juniper wired and Aruba wireless network at the customer deployment. Question: Juniper Specific: What happens to Juniper’s “single pane of glass” strategy with Network Director? Can Juniper manage Aruba WLAN with our EX switches? * Network Director will provide single pane of glass management (configuration, operations, visibility, trouble shooting) across campus and data center switching. We plan to employ visibility across the entire network including WLAN (Juniper and Aruba) in Network Director in the future. Configuration, operations, trouble shooting of the Aruba WLAN portfolio will require Aruba’s AirWave Management Suite. Question: What does this mean to customers? * This partnership is driven by our customers – many of whom are already using Juniper and Aruba networking equipment and it’s a reflection of Juniper’s commitment to the enterprise by collaborating with Aruba to foster innovation for customers and partners. * With this integration, enterprise customers are able to optimize application performance, enable mobility‐centric security and policy, and reduce total cost of ownership by eliminating vendor lock‐in. Question: Can the joint Aruba and Juniper solution be purchased direct from either vendor? * Both companies will direct customers to continue to purchase the integrated solutions through our respective channel partners worldwide. Both companies will work together to broaden the number of partners that embrace both product families. Question: How do customers obtain support? Do they contact Aruba or Juniper? * Support models have not changed – each company will handle support. Aruba and Juniper TAC teams will be collaborating to deliver seamless responses to our customers. * Aruba will be identified as a Technology Alliance Partner by Juniper, and Juniper will be identified as an ArubaEdge partner by Aruba. Level 3 technical support escalation hand-offs will be enabled. Question: What are the advantages of purchasing the Juniper switching/routing and Aruba mobility as a single solution? * Simplified management, visibility and policy across company product lines to increase productivity for IT professionals and streamline recurring network operations. * Best‐in‐class wired and wireless network solutions with a clear roadmap to deliver convergence. * The most comprehensive, best‐in‐class set of Ethernet switches and enterprise‐grade indoor and outdoor wireless access offerings on the market to help customers build best of breed converged networks without vendor lock‐in. * Future‐ready infrastructure for an integrated Aruba mobility solution with Juniper switching delivering improved TCO through more efficient utilization of existing data plane hardware. -Kees -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- Van: Daniel Westacott <[email protected]> Datum: 09-06-2014 18:22 (GMT+01:00) Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Juniper - Aruba partnership We here at Minnesota have not hear anything official or otherwise. /daniel/ daniel westacott University of Minnesota On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Thomas Carter <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I saw the announcement of the Juniper – Aruba wireless partnership; has any other Juniper wireless shop heard anything more about what this really means for us? 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