Reference Designs

Campus Wireless Networks Validated Reference Design v3.3

This Design Guide presents a best practice architecture for a large campus wireless LAN (WLAN) serving thousands of users spread across many different buildings joined by SONET, MPLS or other high-speed, high-availability backbone. It provides network administrators with guidelines to design and deploy a centralized enterprise-wide wireless network in an enterprise, higher education, healthcare or other typical campus setting.
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Wired Multiplexer (MUX) Validated Reference Design v3.3

The reference design presented in this guide is a best practice architecture for a wired network access control system that enables specific wired Ethernet ports on a customer network to benefit from Aruba’s role-based security features. This capability is valuable inside a customer building in common areas like conference rooms and auditoriums that may need to provide different levels of security at different times to transient employee and guest users on the same Ethernet jack.
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Aruba Networks Product Line Visio Stencils

Aruba's entire controller and access point product family is included in this package of Visio stencils for network engineers to create accurate diagrams of their wireless infrastructure.
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RF Design & Antenna Selection

Indoor Access Points: Site Survey and Planning

The purpose of this Predeployment Guide is to provide systems engineers, technical support engineers, and site survey teams with the tools needed to conduct a successful site survey, select appropriate access points or antennas, and plan for the implementation of an Aruba wireless network.
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Aruba Networks Antenna Line Reference Matrix

Aruba offers a comprehensive line of indoor and outdoor antennas that have been certified for operation with Aruba access points. This document summarizes all of these antennas choices, and complements the data sheets for each individual antenna model.
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ArubaOS 3.x Configuration Guides

WLAN Base Configuration for ArubaOS 3.1

This document describes a typical configuration for a base production Aruba Networks infrastructure running ArubaOS 3.1. The Guide includes step-by-step instructions for configuring a Master mobility controller, secure employee WLAN access, and Adaptive Radio Management.
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ArubaOS 2.x Configuration Guides

WLAN Base Configuration for ArubaOS 2.5

This Configuration Guide presents step-by-step instructions for configuring a typical base production Aruba infrastructure running ArubaOS 2.5. The document covers Master controller setup, secure employee access, transparent Layer 3 client mobility, system management and Adaptive Radio Management.
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WLAN Scaling for ArubaOS 2.5

In an Aruba Networks infrastructure, there are two types of controllers. Master controllers manage all WLAN configuration, RF management and security events. Local controllers manage and terminate encrypted GRE tunnels from lightweight access points. This Guide describes a typical configuration for an Aruba network that incorporates Master/Local scaling techniques.
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Redundancy Best Practice Design Guide v2.5

In this Configuration Guide, the reader is taken through how to design and provision a typical architecture that includes redundancy for high availability. Aruba controllers utilize Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) to enable enterprises to provide a backup switch for AP and user connectivity with minimal failover times.
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Secure Guest Access Best Practice Design Guide v2.5

Building on the WLAN Base Configuration for ArubaOS 2.5 guide, this document describes how to design and configure secure wireless access for guests on a production Aruba infrastructure. Step-by-step instructions are presented to set up the integrated stateful firewall, implement a standard Captive Portal authentication page, and configure the applicable network infrastructure.
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