Cloud Centric Distributed Enterprise Office Networks
Distributed enterprises are scaling back on their branch office leases, while continuing to invest in the productivity of workers in more distributed, collaborative spaces. Networks are mission critical as they connect these workers to all things IT related.
Productivity use cases driving network upgrades include real time collaboration, IoT controllers, cloud hosted applications, specialty retail and healthcare devices, asset tracking, video surveillance, and mixed traffic personas (guest, employees, gig workers). These use cases are cloud centric where there are smart devices locally, yet the applications behind them are somewhere off site in the cloud.
Client/server centric office networks, designed in the 90’s and carried forward up until today no longer meet the needs of cloud centric communications. The shortcomings of these legacy designs include security vulnerabilities, inefficient traffic patterns, subpar Wi-Fi performance, point products, costly upgrades with long outage windows, proprietary dataplanes, and disjointed operation tools.
While workplaces continue to evolve, networking and operational tools dating back 10 years ago, is not the way forward. There has been a major shift across all industries and applications, regarding how employees interface with IT applications. This in turn requires a shift in network designs, network platforms and network operations management.
Today’s enterprises are becoming more distributed, with offices located based upon regional talent pools, flexible leasing options, global labor rates, and working remote policies. This often means smaller offices, where enterprises cannot afford networking specialists on site.
Offices are no longer managed as long-term decisions, with 5- or 10-year lease options. Shared spaces, collaboration, bringing your own devices, lights out security systems, interconnected building controllers, flexible cubicles/offices, virtual lobby ambassadors, hoteling, and applications with no boundaries are just many of the IT changes taking place. All of these endpoint and application changes require secure networks, at the edge.
Arista’s Distributed Enterprise network offerings address these legacy shortcomings with scalable form factors, whether there are 5 or 500 employees. Customers can grow or shrink the size of their network, without re-engineering, re-training, ripping out, or having to go through disruptive upgrades.
Arista’s networking products include enterprise class Wi-Fi 6, and 6E access points, wired Power over Ethernet switches (PoE) that scale from 12 ports to 96 ports, next generation firewall and WAN connectivity. All products include cloud based management, user friendly interfaces, zero touch deployment, real time telemetry, and topology simplicity, all in convenient cloud defined form factors.
Give us a call at 1-805-242-5550 to schedule a demonstration on the benefits of Arista’s Distributed Enterprise office networking products.
