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SOURCE: Aruba Networks, Inc.

March 31, 2008 08:00 ET

Golden Living Selects Aruba Secure Mobility Solutions for 350 Corporate, Skilled Nursing, and Assisted Living Facilities

Massively Scalable, Centrally Managed Network Is Deployed Nationwide

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2008) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, and Golden Living, a family of companies that provides care and services that directly or indirectly serve the elderly and disabled, today announced that Aruba is providing secure mobility solutions for HIPAA-compliant pharmaceutical management at Golden Living facilities across North America. The solution enables staff to manage medications for residents in a secure and efficient manner. The project encompasses 331 Golden LivingCenters (skilled nursing facilities) and 19 Golden Living Communities (assisted living facilities) in 22 states. Each location will be served by approximately ten Aruba access points, and more than 2,000 access points have already been deployed.

"We needed a mobility solution that satisfied HIPAA security requirements, one that could be scaled to support a nationwide deployment and was manageable from a central location," said John Barnett, Golden Living's Director of Network Services and Support. "We don't have full time IT staff at every facility, so from our Fort Smith data center we wanted to configure, diagnose, update, and monitor every location. Ease of management was a major factor in our selection of Aruba, and the nationwide system is centrally managed. Aruba provides us with a secure way to manage every location as if we were on-site, freeing our staff to focus on enhancing the residents' experience."

Aruba's network reliably and securely delivers medication information to Golden Living staff members, who can quickly verify and record medication regimes, dosages, and deliveries. Through the use of adaptive wireless LAN technology and identity-based security, Aruba securely and reliably brings the enterprise network to staff members wherever they roam. The network automatically adapts to the changing local environment, ensuring reliable operation in different building designs, the presence of RF-based medical devices, and nearby Wi-Fi networks.

"Aruba offers a compelling solution for this market because we combine a scalable architecture with identity-based security and an easy-to-use centralized management system," said Peter Mongroo, Aruba's head of healthcare marketing. "Golden Living is leveraging all of these features, and doing so on a huge scale. Our application-aware networks optimize themselves to changing requirements, and in so doing lower operating expenses by freeing IT staff from mundane network management tasks. Healthcare and nursing facilities worldwide turn to Aruba for secure data, voice, video, and biomedical wireless networks, and we're delighted to welcome Golden Living as a valued member of our fast-growing user community."

About Golden Living

The Golden Living family of companies provides care and services that directly or indirectly serve the elderly and disabled, including companies that operate nursing homes and provide rehabilitation therapy, hospice care, home health services and temporary staffing services. In addition, the Golden Innovations companies are leading providers of integrated senior healthcare services, partnering with more than 1,000 nursing homes, hospitals and other healthcare organizations in 46 states. Golden Innovations companies include Aegis Therapies, AseraCare Hospice and Home Health, Aedon Staffing, Ceres Purchasing Solutions, and Vizia Healthcare Design Group. Collectively, the Golden Living family of companies has nearly 40,000 employees. To learn more, visit Golden Living at www.goldenliving.com.

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®, 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.

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