They have wide variety of products that include Remote Access Points -RAP, IAP - Intelligent Access points , controllers , Clear Pass and Aruba Central - SD-wan. Here predominantly i will take you through some of the architecture's that i am familiar with.

Let's talk about the architecture of owning multiple retails stores/ different branches / franchise stores around different locations in a country/ different country.

In each branch, we need a 7024/7010 controller with code versions 6x or 8x.

Branch Gateway - 7010/7024 controller

Switches - 3010 Hp

IAP - 515 Model Aruba

Destination - Orchestrator

• A7240XM - Model - Code version - 6x/8x

• Aruba Central config

• Groups config in Central.

Below Diagram for getting an overview.

Traffic Flow

• Network devices are connected to the switch and switch is connected to controller 7010/7024.

• Modem uplink will be provided to controller and using which the controller will communicate outside this LAN.

• Access Points will be providing WLAN to the branch. The same will be connected wired to either the switch or controller.

• Now for the first time when connected to the internet, the controller will try to reach out to -Aruba Activate (Aruba Activate is a cloud-based service that helps provision your Aruba devices and maintain your inventory. )

• In Activate we will be having the groups created and each group will contain the gateway IP to which the controller has to contact. So it's basically a phone book but a secured one so that no other device apart from the devices owned by the organization can get into the conversation.