Aruba Central NetConductor
Streamline operations and enhance protection with cloud-native network automation and orchestration. Automatically configure LAN, WLAN, and WAN infrastructure to deliver optimal performance while enforcing Zero Trust security policies.
Is Network Complexity Slowing Your Digital Acceleration?
Hybrid work, new customer experiences, and improved IT efficiencies require network flexibility and security to keep up with changing business requirements.
Manual Approaches Don't Scale
Using spreadsheets and CLI for network configuration and management becomes impractical as the network expands and diversifies.
Lock-in Makes Change Disruptive
New protocols and topologies like VXLAN and cloud can provide benefits, but proprietary implementations can limit adoption, forcing rip and replace.
Zero Trust Requires Built-in Security
Manually applying and enforcing network access control policies across a distributed network is labor-intensive and can leave security gaps.
Cloud-Native Network Automation and Orchestration
With Central NetConductor, you can automate enterprise network deployment, ongoing network configuration, and security operations.
With Central NetConductor, client traffic routing and security policies are decoupled from the underlying physical network, eliminating the need for VLAN and routing table spreadsheets, or manual configuration of ACLs. A fabric wizard based on UI-driven workflows automates network design and policy creation and automatically pushes device configurations to switches and gateways.
Central NetConductor network security tools provide both network and security teams with options for cloud-native and on-premises network access control to ensure optimal connectivity and Zero Trust Security.
First, AI-powered user and device discovery means that all users and devices on the network are continuously seen and profiled. Then authenticated users and devices are assigned a role that contains both connectivity requirements and access policies. Central NetConductor policy manager translates assigned roles into routing and access policies, which are then interpreted by Aruba CX switches and gateways.
Discover Dynamic SegmentationBenefit from the network configuration, network automation, and network security tools delivered by Aruba Central without a rip-and-replace of current network infrastructure. Central NetConductor uses widely adopted protocols, such as EVPN/VXLAN, to produce an intelligent network overlay suitable for rapid enterprise network deployment and massive scalability.
Central NetConductor Components
Key building blocks for automated network configuration and security enforcement.
Policy Manager
Defines user and device groups and creates the associated traffic routing and access enforcement rules for the physical network.
Group Policy Identifier (GPID)
Carries configuration and client policy information in traffic for in-line policy enforcement, reducing configuration overhead and increasing mobility.
Fabric Wizard
Simplifies the creation of overlays using an intuitive graphical user interface, easing how virtual components are defined and pushed to devices.
Network Insights
Utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically detect network performance and reliability issues while identifying optimization opportunities.
Client Insights
Uses machine learning to eliminate network blind spots by finding, fingerprinting, and automatically assigning devices the appropriate access role.
Flexible Network Access Control
Ensure entities are properly identified and assigned roles using Cloud Auth cloud-native NAC, ClearPass, or third-party solutions.
Central NetConductor in Action
Real-world scenarios demonstrating automation, security, and agility across diverse environments.
Greater Efficiency
Universities are the ultimate service providers, connecting different departments, buildings, and users—all with different needs. Central NetConductor provides a unified framework for network management and security across diverse networks, delivering automation, security, and agility as their customers' needs change.
Hybrid Work
A large healthcare network's geographically dispersed staff must access cloud and IoT-sourced patient data. With Central NetConductor, IT knows what users and devices are on the network and can quickly assign and continuously update policies for both—so an infusion pump in a patient's hospital room can be securely accessed from across the country but protected from potentially malicious traffic.
New Business Models
A manufacturing plant has hundreds of IoT devices, vendors, and contractors on the network to manage. Using manual, inflexible traffic segmentation schemes meant network changes took days to complete. With Central NetConductor, onboarding new users and devices takes just minutes, significantly enhancing agility and unlocking new opportunities.
Related Products
Fabric-capable Aruba switches and gateways support configuration and enforcement based on the routing instructions and access privileges defined in the group policy identifiers.
Aruba CX Switches
Fabric-capable Aruba switches and gateways support configuration and enforcement based on the routing instructions and access privileges defined in the group policy identifiers.
Ready to Automate Your Network?
Let our experts help you design a cloud-native network automation strategy with Central NetConductor.
Talk to a Network Architect
Whether you're evaluating Central NetConductor or planning a broader network automation initiative, our team is here to help you make informed decisions.
We'll walk through:
- Your current network environment
- Operational and automation challenges
- Security and Zero Trust requirements
- How cloud-native orchestration fits your goals
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