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joset01 12/5/2012 | 2:56:19 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy Think this concept will work for Aruba?

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freetoair 12/5/2012 | 2:56:18 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy no.

rebranding as "the mobile edge" company is a chuckle , what is that suppose to mean to anyone anyway? yes. I saw the editors note :-)

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whatupwireless 12/5/2012 | 2:56:18 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy It may help to create a "solution" in tactical sales situations but its not a strategic product announcement. I.e. this won't create opportunities where they didn't already exist.

Get a Netscreen box at home and VPN back into the coporate office. Put a VPN client on your laptop and use the hotel's public Internet access. Both simple solutions that accomplish the same thing.

Nice job calling out Cisco though. Don't know how smart that was...

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whatupwireless 12/5/2012 | 2:56:16 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy it was more of an ill-concieved product than a tagline. and I think it walked out the door with Callische...

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meshsecurity 12/5/2012 | 2:56:16 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy nope, nothing strategic. By the way, what ever happened with the "wireless grid" tagline?

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wifihammer 12/5/2012 | 2:56:14 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy Sure it will. Now small orgs can setup a complete wireless network using the internet as the backbone. All a remote office (or home) will need is a DSL line and a $200 AP to operate a .1X protected network.

No more routers and switches for small offices, no more VPN concentrators for centeral offices. Remote users get the same wireless access that users enjoy at the centeral site.

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lrmobile_rusty 12/5/2012 | 2:56:12 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy wifihammer, you are mistaken. To build 802.1x with this product line it requires an IPSec VPN into the central office first. The idea is that the VPN client in the AP can be pre-configured so that an end-user just plugs the AP in and connects.

To answer the more general question, I believe it will work. The technology is nothing new, as was noted with the post about NetScreen (or Cisco's small office wireless router), but the marketing is perfect. One of the toughest things about Wi-Fi in the enterprise is supporting end users at home, and if the product works (always a question with Wi-Fi startups), this is could solve that problem securely and simply.

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wifihammer 12/5/2012 | 2:56:09 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy Rusty, perhaps you have not used this capability yet. The AP builds an IPSEC tunnel to the internet exposed central controller and passes raw 802.11 frames inside that tunnel for further processing. Since all .11 encryption and decryption is done at the controller, no .11 key material is contained in the AP.

I have an AP here on my desk that appears to be the corporate WLAN connected only to my cable modem.

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lrmobile_rusty 12/5/2012 | 2:56:08 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy My mistake. I misread your post. I thought you were saying that no IPSec tunnel was required. I understand that the controller can act as the IPSec termination point.

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meshsecurity 12/5/2012 | 2:55:41 AM

re: Aruba Gets Edgy you said:

it was more of an ill-concieved product than a tagline. and I think it walked out the door with Callische...

Yeah, I remember him. I think he went to Fracas Networks, right?

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