You are discussing aruba ESP with an interested customer. However, the customer has some concerns about availability when using cloud-based network management. What should you explain?

Question

Options

• AAruba has built in high availability in its cloud, which means customers can be confident that they
• BUnlike some competitors, if aruba network devices lose connectivity to the cloud, they will continue
• CCustomer can receive all the benefits of the aruba ESTP by deploying Aruba airwave, an on-
• DFeatures such as Air Pass and Smart Rate create a highly available wireless network that will

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  11% (5)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  82% (36)

Explanation

Option D is correct because Aruba ESP addresses cloud management availability concerns by building resilience directly into the network infrastructure layer - features like Smart Rate (multi-gigabit, backward-compatible wired connectivity) and Air Pass ensure the data plane remains highly available and performant even if management plane connectivity is disrupted. The key message is that high availability is engineered into the hardware and protocols, not solely dependent on cloud uptime.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is too vague - simply claiming "the cloud is highly available" is a marketing assertion, not a technical reassurance, and doesn't directly address infrastructure-level failure scenarios.
• B is actually a true capability (Aruba devices can operate in survivability mode without the cloud), but it's the wrong framing - it concedes cloud dependency as a problem rather than positioning ESP's network-layer features as the solution.
• C is wrong because AirWave is a legacy on-premises management platform; it is not part of the ESP architecture and cannot deliver all ESP benefits (AIOps, Zero Trust, unified cloud management).

Memory tip: Think "D for Data plane" - when customers worry about cloud availability, remind them that Aruba's answer lives in the device-level features (Smart Rate, Air Pass) that keep traffic flowing regardless of what happens to the management plane.

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