Juniper ties up with Aruba

Juniper Networks has partnered with Aruba Networks to provide converged high-IQ enterprise network.

Under the partnership, both the companies will be involved in go-to-market collaboration and will come out with innovative solutions for the problems enterprises are facing today.

Juniper is helping Aruba to take advantage of its programmable silicon by making available software elements and new programmable application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the High-IQ enterprise. It is an open, smart approach to enterprise networking that allows customers to transform the user and operator experience.

The mobile device market is likely to touch 2.6 bn units by 2016. Managing this huge market is increasingly becoming difficult. The rapid adoption of business applications — such as voice-over-Wi-Fi clients — calls for comprehensive orchestration, according to Canalys, a global technology research firm.

Juniper and Aruba are involved in addressing these mobility market trends with product-level integration that leverages open protocols and open APIs on Juniper switches and routers, and contextual data on users, devices, applications and location available from Aruba’s enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) products.

“With Aruba we jointly deliver a unique, interoperable wired and wireless solution that will enable customers to realize performance, cost, intelligence and simplified management benefits. Additionally, Juniper’s Open Convergence Framework provides customers with comprehensive solutions optimized for the unique requirements of the enterprise,”said Shaygan Kheradpir, chief executive officer, Juniper Networks.

“There’s an urgent need for IT departments to efficiently handle #GenMobile’s all-wireless requirements and the resulting influx of mobile device traffic. The resulting rightsized network will help automate and accelerate business operations and deliver an integrated mobility experience on which #GenMobile can depend,” said Dominic Orr, chief executive officer, Aruba Networks.