Brocade and Aruba team up to deliver Unified Campus Network

 Brocade and Aruba Networks has announced a strategic relationship to deliver an open-standard-based unified campus network to support secure mobility, the proliferation of mobile devices within campus environments, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) initiatives and emerging technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

Through this relationship, Brocade and Aruba will jointly develop and bring to market solutions across multiple industries, including U.S. federal government. With integrated solutions already deployed worldwide, Brocade and Aruba will collaborate on R&D to bring tighter integration for a simplified and agile wired and wireless campus network.

Lloyd Carney, CEO, Brocade, stated, "Campus networks are buckling under the proliferation of today's mobile initiatives, which makes this space ripe for disruption and ready for the application of intelligent solutions. We view the campus network as the on-ramp to the virtualized data center and look forward to collaborating with Aruba to apply our cloud and SDN technologies to create a more unified and simplified solution."

"We believe customers have two choices to consider as they contend with the remarkable changes brought on by the growth of mobile devices and the BYOD trend. The legacy, port-based route brings more complexity, lock-in and expense, whereas the mobility-centric approach from Aruba and Brocade is based on open standards and delivers the freedom of choice and lower costs," said Dominic Orr, CEO, Aruba Networks.

Brocade and Aruba will also embark on a broader technology initiative to apply SDN principles to campus networks. Brocade will support customers and partners through this transition away from its current OEM products and to the strategic integrated solutions with Aruba.