Gateways in AOS10 are used for agregating management traffic from APs to Aruba Central cloud and tunneling data traffic from APs to network via GW. GW will inspect traffic and enforce firewall rules to tunneled traffic. APs are managed by Aruba Central. You can also tunnel trafic from switches to GW for inspection (User Based Tunnel (UBT)) - this feature is available in AOS8 controllers also.
Original Message:
Sent: Jul 30, 2024 02:51 AM
From: Ronin101
Subject: Aruba Controller and AP - Central migration
Thank you Sir for your clear explanation. Although i have to read through aos 10 architecture, what is the exact purpose of gateway in AOS10 ?
Original Message:
Sent: 7/30/2024 2:40:00 AM
From: GorazdKikelj
Subject: RE: Aruba Controller and AP - Central migration
If a customer require guest wifi with promotions and branding and iis interested in guest analytics and active engagement with users via emails, sms...then look into SkyFii now Beonic.
From IT perspective very easy to setup and when it is running, just push the maintenance of portals to marketing department. No IT skills required for creating and maintaining portals and creating analytic reports, engaging customers,...
It also uses location data from infrastructure so you can customize customer expirience based on physical location.
If your customer is looking just for simple guest portal with limited branding and promotions then Aruba Central is a great and easy solution. You can demonstrate Central guest portal very easily with evaluation subscription and Instant AP. Going from controller based AOS6 and 8 to cloud based AOS10 is not too complicated. AOS10 does not have physical controllers any more. Controllers are migrated into Gateways and do not controll APs. The consequence of this is that customer's controller licenses can't be used any more. You need to have Aruba Central subscriptions for Mobility Gateways and Access Points.
Clearpass solution is great, but it is the most complex to implement and maintain.
Best, Gorazd
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Gorazd Kikelj
MVP Guru 2024
Original Message:
Sent: Jul 29, 2024 08:14 AM
From: Ronin101
Subject: Aruba Controller and AP - Central migration
Dear Experts,
One of the customer is using 7210 controller and 100+ APs. Now they need to run Guest WiFi with promotions and branding etc. We pitched them ClearPass but somehow they got to know about Central.
I wanted to know if they want to run cloud guest, what will happen to controllers? can aruba central manage gateways which in turn will manage APs? exactly what will the workflow for cloud guest to work in presence of physical controllers?