Aruba Enables Global Telcos to Seamlessly Extend 5G Cellular Footprint Into Enterprises With Passpoint-based Wi-Fi Service
March 10 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Aruba Air Pass roaming service, combined with Aruba Air Slice
radio resource management, delivers seamless, secure mobility
between cellular and enterprise networks with carrier-grade Quality
of Service
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced the introduction of its new roaming service designed to
enable cellular subscribers to securely and automatically roam onto
participating Aruba enterprise Wi-Fi networks. The new service,
called Aruba Air Pass, allows for a seamless hand-off between
cellular and Wi-Fi networks, without sacrificing security or
quality of service. When used in conjunction with Aruba Air Slice,
an Aruba technology that improves radio performance, telcos can
extend their 5G footprint into the enterprise and enable seamless
Wi-Fi calling and gigabit-class guaranteed performance.
Due to evolving building codes, energy efficient construction
materials and low-emission glass, cellular signals are challenged
when penetrating buildings, resulting in dramatically diminished
performance. To solve this problem, Aruba customers can easily
leverage their existing enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure as a
cost-effective alternative to deploying indoor small cells or
distributed antenna systems (DAS). Because 5G standards support
aggregation of both 3GPP and Wi-Fi radio access networks (RANs),
global telcos can leverage Wi-Fi as an indoor onramp to 5G services
to deliver new classes of enterprise services, such as network
slicing. This helps enterprise IT teams accelerate their adoption
of 5G with an economical and seamless solution that greatly
improves performance and user experience inside the enterprise.
One of the fundamental enabling technologies behind Aruba Air
Pass is Passpoint, a standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance to
enable mobile devices to automatically authenticate on enterprise
Wi-Fi networks using their cellular credentials. Passpoint is a
broadly accepted standard, and is supported on nearly all mobile
devices. By leveraging Aruba Air Pass, global telcos have the
ability to vastly expand their footprint to potentially include the
nearly 20 billion square feet served by Aruba Air Pass-ready
infrastructure worldwide.
Delivering Carrier-grade QoS and Optimized User Experiences
with Wi-Fi 6
Based on the same OFDMA radio technology that powers the 4G LTE
and 5G NR radios, Aruba Air Slice is a unique Wi-Fi 6 technology
designed to optimize user and application experience by providing
carrier-grade quality assurance. By dynamically allocating radio
resources, such as time, frequency and spatial streams, Aruba Air
Slice guarantees performance for latency-sensitive applications
such as AR/VR, Zoom and Slack, mobile gaming and real-time IoT
applications.
Using Aruba Air Pass and Aruba Air Slice, mobile network
operators can benefit from a globally scalable coverage solution,
maintain continuous visibility and contact with subscribers, and
deliver future 5G services across the depth and breadth of Aruba’s
global installed base of enterprise Wi-Fi customers.
“The combination of Aruba Air Pass with Aruba Air Slice gives
telcos the ability to extend the reach of their 5G networks into
the enterprise while economically improving the overall end user
experience,” said Jeff Lipton, vice president of Strategy and
Corporate Development at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company. “Devices that associate with an enterprise network using
Aruba Air Pass may then use their Wi-Fi connections to access
applications and services, such as making and receiving calls and
text messages, based on their roles and permissions.”
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading
provider of secure, intelligent networks that enable customers to
thrive and deliver amazing digital experiences in the mobile, IoT
and cloud era. We are changing the rules of networking to make it
simple for IT and organizations to bridge the physical and digital
worlds at the Edge.
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For
real-time news updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and
for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
products, visit the Airheads Community at
http://community.arubanetworks.com.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational
performance.
For more information, visit www.hpe.com.
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