Designing Aruba Solutions

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• Determine key Stakeholders expectations and requirements
• Determine network usage and requirements
• Identify applications to determine throughput and bandwidth, technologies, and products
• Determine security requirements and Authentication and Compliance
• Determine redundancy requirements
• Determine roaming requirements 

• RF fundamentals
• RF Planning and Site Survey
• Determine the environment type
• Document wireless RF coverage
• Plan AP physical location
• Selecting APs and antennas
• Channel planning and Airmatch 

• Campus Topology
• Aruba Campus WLAN logical architecture
• Overview of Mobility Manager-based architecture
• Planning the deployment architecture
• Controller Scaling
• Planning and selecting licenses
• Using IRIS 

• Selecting 2-tier or 3-tier architecture
• VSP and backplane stacking
• L2 vs. L3 design
• Planning the access layer
• Planning the aggregation/core layers 

• Planning VLANs based on access control requirements
• Planning Wired VLAN in a Multiple VLAN design
• Planning for a wireless large flat VLAN design 

• Designing types of redundancy: Mobility Master redundancy, mobility controller redundancy, AP redundancy, switch redundancy, and link-level redundancy
• Mobility Master redundancy
• Mobility Controller redundancy
• Wired Network Redundancy 

• Determine what traffic needs to be prioritized - Overview of real-time applications such as voice and video
• Explain the features the Aruba solutions provide for prioritizing traffic 
• Map traffic from wireless user device to AP, to controller, and then onto the wired network 

• VHD Wireless network design
• Planning VHD design for a Wired network
• Planning High Density RF Coverage 

• Designing Remote Access and Branch solutions
• Remote Access Points
• Activation using Aruba Activate 
• Aruba Instant APs (IAPs)
• Wired solutions for the branch