SOURCE: Aruba Networks, Inc.

 

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - July 23, 2008) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today announced that the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has deployed Aruba's adaptive wireless LANs across its Pasadena campus. Founded in 1891, the world renowned research and teaching university has more than 2,000 students and 5,700 faculty and staff including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caltech focuses on investigating the most challenging problems in science and technology through research integrated with education, and quick access to information is an important tool in that quest. Nearly 700 Aruba access points provide blanket coverage across the 124 acre campus located 10 miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center.

"We implemented a campus-wide wireless LAN and were pleased with the ease of provisioning and deploying the access points," said John Dundas III, Caltech's Director of IMSS Voice & Data Networks. "We wanted to provide a campus-wide mobile computing solution that would support voice, video, and other applications in the future. The new network offers the performance, differentiation of service, and security we need, while the centralized network management architecture minimizes the work required to maintain and modify the system to accommodate our very dynamic environment."

Aruba designed its unified mobility solutions to securely deliver networks to users by integrating adaptive wireless LANs, identity-based security, Wi-Fi-to-cellular solutions, and multi-vendor network management into a cohesive, high-performance system. By automatically adapting the network to accommodate user behavior, interference, and nearby networks, Aruba simplifies wireless LAN set-up and operation. Unique follow-me security capabilities provide complete mobility for users while ensuring that security is always enforced, even for telecommuters working from home or researchers at satellite campuses. Finally, Aruba's vendor-neutral AirWave Wireless Management Suite reduces the cost and difficulty of technology migrations. By simultaneously managing new and legacy devices from more than sixteen different vendors, users can stage migrations on a schedule, and budget, that best meets their needs.

"Wireless LANs are an indispensable tool on today's campuses, and the expectations from users and IT management alike are very high," said Robert Fenstermacher, Aruba Higher Education Marketing. "Users want uninterrupted network access and high speed connections, while IT management wants pervasive security, comprehensive management tools that are simple to use, and the reuse of as much existing infrastructure as possible. Aruba satisfies these requirements with a unified mobility platform that scales to meet virtually any sized application, is software upgradable to meet future needs, and is environmentally friendly in terms of power consumption, the reuse of existing infrastructure, and support for telecommuters who want to work off campus."

About Caltech

With an outstanding faculty, including five Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world's major research centers. Caltech offers instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,300 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. Caltech is a private university in Pasadena, California. http://www.caltech.edu

About Aruba Networks

People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our unified mobility solutions include Wi-Fi networks, identity-based security, remote access and cellular services, and centralized multi-vendor network management to enable the Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:

--  Follow-Me Connectivity: Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize
    themselves to ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical
    information;
--  Follow-Me Security: Identity-based security assigns access policies to
    users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is
    accessed;
--  Follow-Me Applications: Remote access solutions and cellular network
    integration ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move;
--  Follow-Me Management: Multi-vendor network management provides a
    single point of control while managing both legacy and new wireless
    networks from both Aruba and its competitors.
    

The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our unified mobility solutions are fundamentally changing how and where we work. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com.

© 2008 Aruba Networks, Inc. AirWave®, Aruba Networks®, Aruba Mobility Management System®, Bluescanner, For Wireless That Works®, Mobile Edge Architecture®, People Move. Networks Must Follow®, RFProtect, The All Wireless Workplace Is Now Open For Business, and The Mobile Edge Company® are trademarks of Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.