A customer currently has Cisco networking equipment, but you have made progress in convincing the customer that an Aruba solution will better suit their needs for their upgrade. However, the…

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Options

• AAruba AirWave is multi-vendor, so it can manage both legacy Cisco products and Aruba products
• BAn Aruba Mobility Master (MM) can discover and monitor third-party products such as the legacy
• CAruba controllers support dynamic segmentation, which enables them to integrate with switches
• DAruba Foundation Care offers financial services to make it more economically feasible for the

• A
  71% (22)
• B
  10% (3)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  16% (5)

Explanation

Aruba AirWave is a network management platform specifically designed to be multi-vendor, meaning it can simultaneously manage and monitor both existing Cisco equipment and new Aruba devices - making it the ideal selling point for a customer doing a gradual migration, since they don't need to rip-and-replace everything at once.

Option B is wrong because Mobility Master is a controller management tool for Aruba infrastructure, not a general-purpose multi-vendor monitoring platform - it doesn't meaningfully manage legacy Cisco gear in a way that eases migration.

Option C is wrong because dynamic segmentation is a feature about applying consistent security policies across wired/wireless networks, not about vendor interoperability with Cisco devices.

Option D is incomplete as written and appears to be cut off, but Foundation Care is a support/maintenance contract, not a financial services offering that addresses vendor-migration reluctance.

Memory tip: Think of AirWave as the "Switzerland" of network management - it's neutral and works with everyone. When you see a question about a customer keeping old gear while adding Aruba, AirWave is almost always the answer because it's Aruba's dedicated multi-vendor NMS.

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