| 4/8/08 - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) announced that the University of Wyoming has selected Aruba's adaptive wireless LAN and AirWave Wireless Management Suite for deployment at its Laramie campus. Founded in 1887 as a land grant institution, the university is today home to more than 13,000 students and the sole provider of baccalaureate and graduate education in the state. The university sought to replace its legacy wireless network with a more reliable, easier to manage solution, and selected Aruba based on its low cost, robust design, and centralized management architecture.
"Our legacy wireless network of Fat APs was fast approaching the end of its service life, and we wanted to replace all existing APs and expand access to the entire campus using a more robust, feature-rich network that the IT staff could centrally monitor and manage," said Robert Morrison, the university's director of telecommunications and systems services. "Our technical investigation showed that Aruba offered the most cost-effective solution, integrating a flexible, scalable architecture with the powerful, easy-to-use AirWave management software. The analytics available from the AirWave software open a window into the status and operation of the entire network, backed by a detailed report generator for analyzing trends." The robust performance of Aruba's wireless LANs is achieved through Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology that automatically adjusts the network to compensate for new clients, sources of interference, and the type of applications in use. Aruba's interoperable architecture supports all standard clients including Centrino, Pentium, and Apple -- an essential feature given the wide range of PCs typically in use on university campuses. "Universities rely on their wireless LANs as an essential communications medium for students, faculty, and staff, and as such they must perform well in what is a very dynamic and challenging environment," said Robert Fenstermacher, Aruba Higher Education Marketing. "Whether enabling interactive learning in densely populated lecture halls, distributing streaming video lectures, or providing softphone capabilities on mobile devices like Apple's iPhone, our adaptive wireless LANs are up to the challenge. Used in conjunction with the vendor-neutral AirWave management platform, the result is a standards-based secure mobility solution with industry-leading throughput and low installation and operating costs." 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.
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