Written by Nick Wood for Telecoms.com
UK operator group BT has brought in HPE to help it address growing demand for hybrid working and IoT deployments.
HPE’s Aruba Networking solutions will underpin BT’s new managed local area networking (LAN) service, which promises to overhaul enterprise customers’ in-building connectivity, enabling it to cope with anything that modern working methods can throw at it.
“It’s clear that legacy in-building networks can’t handle modern hybrid working and IoT devices, never mind what comes next. That’s why we’re expanding customer choice of managed LAN solutions by partnering with HPE Aruba Networking,” said Andrew Small, director of voice and digital work at BT’s Business division, in a statement on Thursday. “This will offer the visibility, flexibility and security customers need to deliver productive, trusted wired and wireless connectivity.”
Aruba LAN comes with a cloud-native management console to help customers keep tabs on which devices are connected to their network. Furthermore, delivering the whole thing as a managed service offers the flexibility to scale capacity up or down as needed, and easily add new features, like managed network security.
