Networks are the highway that allow application traffic to get from the data center to end users.
Network Engineers designed their highways to stay a head of business requirements then instituted Quality of Service (QoS) protections for “bad” users, virus and malware, as well as poorly written applications. This worked great when a laptop simply ran an application. Now network engineers are faced with a plethora of devices from tablets to laptops to phones that are closer and closer to running all the same applications.
This means that an end user on their tablet that normally runs a CRM package in a warehouse will also be making Microsoft Skype for Business video calls, wirelessly and without the traditional wired infrastructure. Rolta-AdvizeX is in the forefront of enabling voice and video applications in parallel with traditional data applications to support the growing digital mobile lifestyle.
Networking professionals should ask themselves the following questions:
- Can my wireless network distinguish business from non-business video traffic?
- Can my wireless network determine call quality of an individual Microsoft Skype for Business call?
- Can my wireless network prioritize RF and bandwidth based on voice and video call quality?
Up until now, network managers were only able to statically set application policies at the campus access and distribution areas or possibly dynamically in the data center using a product like HP Enterprises’ Network Optimizer SDN Application. The trouble is that applications don’t stay in the data center. Obvious statement, but they are worthless unless some user can access them. Moving out of the data center and into the access layer is the next step for Software Defined Networks (SDN).
Rolta-AdvizeX and Aruba Networks an HP Enterprise Company are partnered to provide clients with secure enterprise class unified access services to meet their dynamic business application needs. Utilizing the Aruba portfolio, AdvizeX provides not only differentiated services, but with utilizing Application Program Interfaces (API’s) integrates with Microsoft Skype for Business, dynamically adding resources to improve voice and video call quality on the wireless network.
Aruba moves SDN and other integration tools out of the data center and into the access layer. Furthermore, utilizing Aruba’s application recognition solution, AppRF, traffic can be categorized and differentiated based on broad customer policies that meet their business needs.
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