Modernize your Edge network and security infrastructure with AI-powered automation

Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) is a next-generation, cloud-native architecture that enables you to accelerate digital business transformation through automated network management, Edge-to-cloud security, and predictive AI-powered insights with up to 95% accuracy.

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Only Aruba ESP delivers faster everything – time to remediation, speed of security protection, scaling of users and locations, and operational AIOps on a single, cloud-native architecture:
  • The largest telemetry-based data lake for AIOps
  • Dynamic Segmentation and policy enforcement rules to secure new devices
  • Cloud-managed orchestration across wired, wireless, and WAN
  • Ultimate flexibility — in the cloud, on-premises, or consumed as a service

Harness the potential of your Edge locations

Advance the priorities of your business today and tomorrow with a network architecture that is:

Unified

Gain context, visibility, and control over all domains through a cloud-native, uniform console for Wi-Fi, wired, and WAN infrastructure. Aruba’s Unified Infrastructure simplifies and improves IT operations across campus, branch, remote, data center, and IoT networks – all managed and orchestrated in the cloud or on-prem for ease and efficiency.

AI-powered IT

Automatically see, fix and keep Wi-Fi, wired, SD-WAN and application issues at a minimum for an optimized user experience. Trusted insights from over 1.5B data points reduce mean time to resolution by up to 95%, while delivering performance boosts by up to 40% or more. 

Secure

Increase protection without adding complexity: Aruba ESP Edge-to-Cloud security provides a built-in foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks, while securing direct Internet breakouts and multi-cloud connectivity from the WAN edge. Gain comprehensive visibility, control, and enforcement capabilities to address the requirements of a decentralized, IoT-driven network.

Agile

Gain cloud-like agility and flexibility by consuming Aruba ESP as-a-service. HPE GreenLake for Aruba is a comprehensive network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering that delivers your Aruba products and services in a monthly subscription, with options for flexible consumption. Leveraging the vast financial resources of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and geographic reach of Aruba’s channel partner network, your HPE GreenLake for Aruba solution will be delivered where and how you need it.

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Gartner® names HPE (Aruba) a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure

For the 17th consecutive time, HPE (Aruba) has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure.

Exploring the ROI of Cloud-managed Networking with Aruba Central

IT teams face higher levels of network complexity due to work-from-home initiatives, more IoT devices, and new cloud applications. Networks are becoming harder to troubleshoot, while the use of siloed management tools inhibits IT agility and increases rick of errors or downtime.

Delivering the in-office experience anywhere

Hybrid workplace models call for long-term adoption of remote work, which places new demands on IT. With Aruba EdgeConnect Microbranch, part of Aruba ESP, IT can extend the on-campus experience to small offices, home offices, and ad-hoc locations with ease.

Edge transformation in action

Texas Rangers deliver an immersive fan experience with Aruba ESP

“Our network serves as the nervous system for a large public venue that is chockfull of electronic sensors and controls. Aruba’s solutions have enabled us to engineer the equivalent of a living, breathing facility, while minimizing IT and back office overhead by giving us an intelligent, automated networking infrastructure.”

KEMET

“With Aruba and Aruba Central, our infrastructure can scale smoothly and seamlessly worldwide. Overall, we’re only scratching the surface and look forward to taking our Aruba networking platform to the next level.”

Bay State Health

“Aruba is a significant and important partner for us at the edge because the future of healthcare is all about connectivity. It’s critical that we have a platform that is reliable, resilient, always on, expandable and scalable. That’s why we chose Aruba.”

Vestavia

“With teaching and learning changing every day, our secure, self-healing Aruba wired and wireless networking infrastructure ensures we can provide our students with the best digital environment, no matter what comes next.”

ABB

“Smart Sensor technology with Aruba Wi-Fi infrastructure is a game-changing solution for large-scale condition monitoring. Smart Sensors are easy to install and commission—it is simply a question of activating the sensors, so they connect to the network by Bluetooth—then you are ready to start monitoring.”

LendingTree standardizes on Aruba ESP to enable a modern, mobile-first workplace

According to Brannen Taylor, Network Manager for LendingTree, a networking solution that could match these core organizational values was a primary goal.

“At LendingTree, we’re encouraged to deliver truly outstanding products, so we need to be certain our work environment and technology infrastructure enables and reflects those values,” Taylor said. “The ability to deliver a seamless and consistent user experience across all locations was a key requirement.”

Zebra

Zebra and Aruba have partnered to deliver the most trustworthy, highest fidelity systems available to locate, harvest, and transport IoT data and context for healthcare, industrial, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare applications.

Centrak

Centrak and Aruba provide hospitals with real-time location, telemetry, and asset management over Wi-Fi.

ZF Openmatics

ZF OPENMATICS and Aruba have partnered to deliver asset tracing solutions that can be economically, reliably, and securely deployed over a site’s Aruba wireless network by leveraging the access points’ internal Bluetooth Low Energy radios.

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Convert your Edge data into new business outcomes with Aruba ESP

Aruba ESP is cloud-native architecture built for the Intelligent Edge. Hover over the numbers to learn how each element helps you gain deeper insights into the potential of your Edge data.

Connect

Cloud-native services deployed either in the cloud or on-premises to deliver solutions that integrate setup, configuration and management in a single point of visibility and control with Central Cloud Management. Rapidly migrate new capabilities from Aruba and ecosystem partners that can be seamlessly added.

Protect

Managing legacy networks with primarily manual processes creates visibility gaps to potential security vulnerabilities, is prone to human error and latency, and creates unacceptable delays in quarantining potential data breaches:

Apply Edge-to-Cloud security, featuring a built-in foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks, incorporate best practices to protect your network estate from device- and Internet-based threats. Keep your business, customer, and patient data safe by limiting network access based on role, policy, and detailed device profile information-even for headless IoT devices.

Automate

Boost IT operational effectiveness with AI and automation for networks, security and applications. Optimize network performance, enhance user experience, dynamically improve troubleshooting, and enhance productivity with actionable insights for today’s complex and distributed networks. Peer insights and a vast data lake from 120K+ customers and 200M+ endpoints ensure highly accurate automated actions and recommendations.

Adapt

Match the needs of your organization by acquiring, deploying and managing the network your way with a range of options from traditional purchase to a Network as a Service (NaaS) subscription.

Convert your Edge data into new business outcomes with Aruba ESP

Ready to take Aruba ESP for a test drive?

Get in touch for an Aruba Central custom demo or free trial.