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Aruba and Riverbed Partner toAccelerate and Optimize Mobile-First Connectivityto Cloud-First Applicationsemployees in branch locations have reliableToday’s workforce is more distributed, morewireless and wired access, and reliablemobile, and more demanding. Constantconnectivity to corporate and cloud services?availability and high performance are expectedregardless of the application. Many of these user experience and application performance toapplications have expanded from a monolithicefficiently troubleshoot or resolve issues evenapplication in a single datacenter to multi-tieredapplications that span multiple data centersand clouds. The result is an unprecedentedVisibility: How do you provide visibility into end-before they are noticed by the end user? Performance: How do you ensure consistentapplication performance over wireless and wiredcombination of mobile users who demandaccess networks, regardless of whetherconsistent performance and a multi-locationbranches are connected via MPLS or the publicinfrastructure that at times struggles to meetthe expectations of the 21st century workforce.Business Gets Done at the BranchInternet, and regardless of infrastructure location(private datacenter, hybrid datacenter, cloud)?Aruba and Riverbed Power Mobile ConnectivityAruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is aBranch offices become increasingly important as we seeleading provider of next-generation networking solutionsgrowth in business revenues streaming in from locationsfor enterprises of all sizes worldwide. Riverbed is theaway from headquarters. On average, nearly half of allleader in Application Performance Infrastructure,employees in mid-to-large sized enterprises work indelivering the most complete platform for the hybridremote locations. IT must ensure that these locations areenterprise to ensure applications perform as expected,always up and running with the applications and servicesdata is always available when needed, and performancethey need to stay productive. However, providingissues can be proactively detected and resolved beforeconsistent application performance to remote users atimpacting business performance. Together, Aruba andthese sites creates various challenges:Riverbed have partnered to deliver best-in-class mobility Connectivity: How do you ensure that 2016 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved.access and management combined with networkoptimization and visibility.1

Aruba for Wired and Wireless Access andNetwork Managementdifficult for applications to perform as expected. RiverbedAruba provides a broad portfolio of products for branchindustry-leading WAN acceleration and optimizationoffice wireless connectivity:technologies. A dual-ended solution, SteelHead sits onSteelHead solutions address these problems through itseither side of the WAN and provide a unique Superb Wi-Fi performance with wirelesscombination of application, data, and network trafficaccess points (APs) and controllers that alsostreamlining:support centralized network engineering, statefulfirewall, IP services and policy controls Data de-duplication: Eliminates redundant datafrom being transferred across the WAN, Scalable and secure wired access withreducing the overall amount of network trafficswitches optimized for wireless that feature HPEand increasing the throughput on file downloads,Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet and better-remote backups, replication, disaster recovery,together integration with Wi-Fi infrastructureand many other application and datatransactions.User-centric network management designedwith mobile devices and apps in mind that Application streamlining: Reduces theproactively monitors the health and performancechattiness of applications based on a number ofof all connected devicesdifferent protocols including CIFS, HTTP,HTTPS, MAPI, NFS, and SQL. These specificFor smaller remote locations that need enterprise-grademodules understand the chattiness of eachWi-Fi that’s simple to deploy and manage, Aruba Instantprotocol and work to keep the conversation onAPs offer robust, resilient and secure branch networkthe LAN, where chattiness is not a factor;services. For larger remote locations, the Aruba 7000thereby significantly reducing latency beforeseries controllers provide integrated wireless andmaking transmissions over the WAN.switching services for enterprises that need to rapidlydeploy and manage an all-in-one CPE solution for each branch or remote location.traffic and control the data flow on an applicationbasis to determine which data will be transmittedAruba solutions are optimized for cloud services andon the WAN.hybrid WAN connections, and designed to deliver theperformance, reliability and security required to supportthe growing number of IoT devices now in the workplace.Traffic shaping: Applies policies to prioritize TCP/IP optimization: Leverages varioustechniques to make TCP a more efficientnetworking protocol. These techniques canRiverbed for Application Acceleration Riverbed SteelHead solutions deliver comprehensivevisibility, optimization and control of all applications,(both on-premises and cloud), to deliver extraordinaryperformance no matter where users and applications arelocated.Unreliable network connections, constantly changinglocations, distance, and network latency often make it 2016 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved.include improving latency through window-sizescaling, selective acknowledgements, Layer 3congestion control algorithms, and IP protocolspoofing. This can also include forward errorcorrection that reduces the need forretransmissions in error-prone and congestedWAN links.SteelHead solutions are delivered in a variety of formfactors ranging from physical to virtual to cloud-hosted. A2

traditional, enterprise-only deployment might involve a Ability to quickly discern network problems fromSteelHead in the datacenter paired with SteelHead CX inSaaS provider problems with visibility intoeach branch office. Cloud and SaaS deploymentsnetwork versus service provider server delaysinvolve on-premise SteelHead boxes paired withSteelHead hosted within the cloud provider (e.g., within hybrid networks for on-premises, cloud, andAmazon Web Services) and/or SteelHead hosted in aSaaS applicationspoint-of-presence in close proximity to a SaaS provider’sdatacenter (e.g., within the Akamai network in closeproximity to a Salesforce.com datacenter).SteelHead solutions deliver a number of benefitsincluding: Support for the largest number of applicationson premise, in the cloud or SaaS-basedincluding Microsoft Office 365, MicrosoftDynamics 365 CRM, Salesforce.com, SAP,ServiceNow, Box, and many others Increased performance of up to 100X over Reduced bandwidth utilization by up to 99%,deferring costly network bandwidth upgradesTogether, Aruba and Riverbed solutions help ensure fast,consistent connectivity for mobile users from the deviceto the branch office and either to the datacenter or tocloud services. Figure 1 illustrates how the combinationof Aruba and Riverbed can deliver superior access andperformance to mobile users at branch offices –regardless of the location of the application.Faster, more effective troubleshooting with enduser experience visibilityFigure 1: Aruba and Riverbed for branch office connectivity, visibility, and performance from mobile users to Datacenter, Cloud, and SaaS 2016 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved.3

Optimizing the Performance of CriticalBusiness ApplicationsBusinesses depend on a variety of applications and Deliver as much as 33x better applicationperformance Reduce bandwidth use as much as 99%,Microsoft Office 365 is at the top of the list foreliminating the need to add costly networkproductivity, collaboration, and communication. Forbandwidthsophisticated applications like Office 365, performancechallenges that adversely impact end user experienceand productivity can crop up in multiple areas of thenetwork – such as end user connectivity via a mobiledevice or branch office connectivity to a Microsoftdatacenter over the WAN or public Internet. Thecombination of Aruba and Riverbed addresses theseconnectivity challenges and provides end-to-endIn addition to Office 365, Aruba and Riverbed can alsoensure connectivity and an optimized experience forother business critical applications – both on-premise orcloud services – including SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow,Box, Microsoft Dynamics, as well as homegrown,custom applications.optimization and visibility that ensures an optimal endDeployment Questions and Example Scenariosuser experience.Aruba and Riverbed architectures will vary based on anumber of factors including branch office size, numberAruba delivers QoS over the wire and the air directly toand type of applications being used, network type andend users, while Riverbed improves the performance ofbandwidth, additional network loads (e.g., databasethe application over the WAN from branch office to thebackups), etc. Some key questions to consider and initialdatacenter or cloud. The result is a 33X bettersteps to take when architecting branch officeapplication performance with up to 99% reduction ofconnectivity for mission critical applications include:network bandwidth. Combined with world-classmanagement tools like Aruba Airwave and Riverbed TMbusiness stakeholders today and in the future?SteelCentral , customers can not only improveapplication performance but also, just as importantly,provide granular, application-centric visibility and reports and reliability of networks where users access Office 365change? Improve Skype for Business call quality andprovide consistent user experience Simplify and accelerates Skype for Businessdeployment while resolving call quality issuesfaster through detailed metrics What connectivity is in place today? Wired,wireless, MPLS networks, Internet, other?and other mission-critical business applications anddeliver the following benefits:Where are these applications hosted today?Datacenter or cloud? Could this locationinto end user experience.Together, Aruba and Riverbed enhance the performanceWhat applications are most critical to your What is the end user experience and applicationperformance in branch offices today?With initial answers to these questions, customers canwork with Aruba and Riverbed to pilot an architecture fora small number of branch office in order to see thepotential benefits for critical business applications suchas Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business. Again,Deliver unparalleled visibility to customer’sthere are many factors to consider for a productionSkype for Business deployments with end-to-deployment, but a pilot environment could include aend, wireless LAN and endpoint device level callcombination of the products listed in this table:quality metrics 2016 Riverbed Technology. All rights reserved.4