A few days ago Aruba released the a new version of Airwave. In the release-notes for this version 8.2.10 you can find a paragraph on page 4 that mentions changes to the password requirements. This raised concerns, because studies show…
first impressions on Extreme WiNG APs
As I work for a company that implements many different vendors in different fields of IT, I have to look further than the WiFi vendor I normally implement and so I chose to play with some gear from Extreme Networks.…
Client isolation in single SSID deployments
While I have been in the US during the last days, I’ve had the pleasure to meet Robert Boardman and Rowell Dionicio. We had a really nice discussion about WiFi and happened to stumble over the topic of client isolation…
Client-Debugging with Aruba Central
Today at the SD-Branch Workshop we got a small road-map update and demo of really cool features that will come to Aruba Central and the SD-Branch solution. I want to focus here on a nice feature in Central, that will…
Aruba SD-Branch: Day 1
A few weeks ago one of my sales people at work asked me whether I’d be interested in learning more about the Aruba SD-WAN/Branch solution. Right after saying yes I found myself booking a flight to San Francisco. This week…
A nightmare on NAT-street
As Halloween is today, I’d like to tell you a spooky story about IPv4-adresses and historical mistakes made by network-administrators a long time ago, without knowing it would doom the network for decades! Flashback – somewhere in Germany in the…
The Aruba Networks 802.11ax AP-Series
It’s finally here: the 802.11ax-AP-Series by Aruba. Yesterday, during their Presentation at Mobility Field Day, Aruba announced the next Series of Access-Points. There have been numerous rumors about the name, feature-set and Release-Date, but now we can take a first…
Aruba AP387 – a step into the world of IEEE 802.11ad
Today at Aruba Atmosphere in Ŝibenik Aruba Networks announced a brand new Access Point: the AP387. As numbers are not totally speaking for them self, let me say it with words. The AP387 is a point-to-point outdoor AP with two…
Managing an ArubaOS 8.x Setup through the API in Python
In ArubaOS 8.x Aruba introduced a new feature to their architecture: a REST-API to interact in a more automated way with the single components of the infrastructure. Together with the Mobility-Master architecture it is a key component of their SND…
Controller-Cluster in ArubaOS 8.x
In diesem Blogartikel erkläre ich ein wenig, wie die Controller-Cluster in ArubaOS 8.x funktionieren, wie man sie einrichtet und welche Funktionen sie bieten. Alle Erklärungen und Tests habe ich mit zwei Aruba 7005 Controllern, drei AP215 und einem Mobility-Master auf…