Brocade has announced its new Open Mobility Solutions Program in a bid to blur the lines between wired and wireless networks and offer customers seamless integration and management across their end-to-end network infrastructures.
The program, which has received the support of wireless vendors Aruba, Aerohive, and Ruckus, aims to future-proof IT investments and ensure network readiness in the era of enterprise mobility and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
“Enterprise IT benefits from fully integrated solutions that combine best of breed point products and this is what we have accomplished with the Open Mobility Solutions Program. The collaboration between Brocade and industry leaders in wireless networking, under this framework, enables customers to enjoy best in class technologies with consistent experience across wired and wireless networks,” said Yarob Sakhnini, regional director, MEMA at Brocade.
In recent years, Brocade has been reiterating its commitment to technologies built on open standards. The company contributes to the OpenDaylight project and is a member of the OpenStack alliance. According to Yarob, ‘open standards are also a cornerstone of the Open Mobility Solutions Program’.
Brocade has been working together with Aruba, Aerohive, and Ruckus and completed third-party certification testing on the joint solutions to ensure interoperability and allow customers to enjoy unified management and security. The vendors have also collaborated on support, thus allowing joint customers to avail of a single point of contact for issue resolution.
Brocade’s formal push for the delivery of best-in-class wired foundations for wireless networks began with its collaboration with Aruba Networks on an open and interoperable framework. The two vendors announced their partnership late last year, saying that ‘the Middle East is seeing a convergence of the wired and wireless worlds where customers expect a seamless and secure experience irrespective of what device they are using or from where they connect to the enterprise network.
The mobility-centric approach from Aruba and Brocade will help organisations to deliver this end-user experience – enabling improved performance, simplified management and security policy, while lowering total ownership costs for enterprise IT.’
With Aerohive and Ruckus now extending their support to the program, Brocade customers stand to receive the following benefits:
- Joint engineering to provide solutions such as management tools and security policies for wired/wireless networks, delivering operational simplicity and a consistent user experience. The solutions Brocade offers with its partners are as tightly integrated as those from any single-vendor offering, without the vendor lock-in.
- Flexible financing with Brocade Network Subscription for wireless networks and Brocade wired networks maximises budget flexibility and procurement simplicity.
- Unified technical support with Brocade wireless partners enables faster time to recovery and eliminates the finger-pointing associated with many multivendor solutions.
