Secure Enterprise Mesh can support all enterprise wireless needs including WiFi access, concurrent Wireless Intrusion Protection, wireless backhaul, LAN bridging, and point-to-multipoint connectivity, all with a single common infrastructure. Quality of Service capabilities provide effective converged support for data, voice and video. Secure Enterprise Mesh is an excellent solution for connectivity applications, including inter-building connectivity, outdoor campus mobility, wire-free offices, and wireline back-up; security applications, such as video and audio monitoring, alarms and duress signals, and industrial applications and sensor networks.

Benefits:

• Secure enterprise mesh supports WiFi access, concurrent Wireless Intrusion Protection, wireless backhaul, LAN bridging, and point-to-multi point connectivity

• Well-suited for connectivity, security and industrial applications
• Efficiently supports converged voice, video, and data applications

LTI's Secure Enterprise Mesh features cooperative control technology which uses an intelligent link management algorithm to optimize traffic paths and links. Mesh Points communicate with their neighbors and advertise a number of RF and link attributes (e.g., link cost, path cost, node cost, loading) that allow them to make intelligent selection of the best path to take for the application. Mesh paths and links automatically adjust in the event of high-loads or interference. Further, application tags for voice and video traffic are shared to ensure latency sensitive traffic is prioritized over data. The cooperative control technology also provides self-healing functionality for the mesh network in the event of a blocked path or AP failure.

Benefits:

• Intelligent RF link management determines optimal performance path
• Allows the network to self-organize
• Self-healing functionality in the event of blocked path or AP failure

Secure Enterprise Mesh solution provides a flexible, wire-free design allowing access points and Air Monitors to be placed wherever they are needed – indoors and outdoors. The absence of fiber or cable runs significantly reduces network installation costs and requires fewer Ethernet ports. The solution fully integrates with the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture, enabling a single, enterprise-wide network. Secure Enterprise Mesh is based on programmable software and does not require specialized hardware; virtually any indoor or ruggedized outdoor access can function as a mesh point.

Benefits:

• Full integration with Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture

• Wire-free design; no fiber or cable runs required
• Indoor and outdoor use
• Any Aruba access point can be a mesh point

Aruba Secure Enterprise Mesh networks can be segmented into highly-available clusters allowing failures and interference-driven problems to be contained to a single cluster rather than rippling through the entire network. Clusters can support multiple mesh portals for load balancing and redundancy. Additionally, mesh points can support multiple mesh profiles, defining which cluster they join and switching preferences for alternate clusters in the event of a problem. Mesh points support a recovery profile, unique to the customer's network and automatically configured upon provisioning. If a mesh point cannot associate to a mesh cluster, it will cycle through its profiles until it can. If unsuccessful, it will associate to its recovery profile to be recovered and reprovisioned by the mobility controller. No need to climb towers or the plenum if you lose a mesh point.

Benefits:

• Provides for auto-redundancy and high availability
• Allows a large mesh to be segmented into highly available clusters
• Contains interference-driven issues to a single part of the network

Secure Enterprise Mesh solutions handle all encryption and decryption centrally in the mobility controller. With this architecture, data is encrypted end-to-end, all the way from the client to the core, and at no point are encryption keys stored in the mesh access points. Following best practices originally specified for military communication systems, this architecture affords the greatest protection for network data, even in the event that a mesh access point is stolen. Additionally, security policies are centrally managed from Aruba Mobility Controllers, which offer ultra-high bandwidth, capacity, and availability. This field-proven architecture allows tight policy control and enforcement, significantly simplifies overall network management, scales to support the largest of enterprises, and provides fault tolerance when used with redundant controller features unavailable on even the most sophisticated access point-centric schemes. For low security threat, peer-to-peer latency sensitive applications, the Aruba Secure Enterprise Mesh can also support a distributed crypto model. 

Benefits:

• Data is encrypted end-to-end, from client to core
• Network is protected even if a mesh access point is stolen
• Security policies are centrally managed from Aruba Mobility Controller

Secure Enterprise Mesh solutions handle all encryption and decryption centrally in the mobility controller. With this architecture, data is encrypted end-to-end, all the way from the client to the core, and at no point are encryption keys stored in the mesh access points. Following best practices originally specified for military communication systems, this architecture affords the greatest protection for network data, even in the event that a mesh access point is stolen. Additionally, security policies are centrally managed from Aruba Mobility Controllers, which offer ultra-high bandwidth, capacity, and availability. This field-proven architecture allows tight policy control and enforcement, significantly simplifies overall network management, scales to support the largest of enterprises, and provides fault tolerance when used with redundant controller features unavailable on even the most sophisticated access point-centric schemes. For low security threat, peer-to-peer latency sensitive applications, the Aruba Secure Enterprise Mesh can also support a distributed crypto model. 

Detailed Network Management and Topology Mapping

• Graphical topology planning tools including coverage heat maps and automatic link budgets
• Full network visualization including floor plans and maps with network topology
• Management and troubleshooting tools via command line interface, Web user interface and Aruba Mobility Management System