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Aruba Networks Delivers Fault-Tolerant, Secure Wireless LAN to the University of Macau
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SUNNYVALE, CA, September 2 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global
leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today
announced that University of Macau has deployed a campus-wide Aruba
adaptive wireless LAN at its Taipa campus. Founded in 1981, the urban
campus covers 572,000 square feet and supports more than 6,000 students and
800 faculty and staff. The University of Macau sought to replace its
legacy Wi-Fi network comprised of autonomous access points in favor of a
centrally managed wireless LAN with automatic load balancing, a role-based
firewall for security, and fault-tolerant wireless controllers. Aruba was
awarded the project based on its management system, integrated firewall,
Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology, and N+1 controller redundancy.
"The university's legacy Fat AP wireless network was difficult to manage,
offered limited security, and had an inflexible VLAN arrangement -- our new
Aruba network addressed all of these issues," said Jason Ho, University of
Macau's Director of ICTO. "The new centralized architecture makes short
work of managing, troubleshooting, and updating the entire network. Network
access had been a constant challenge, but our new role-based firewall
provides a simple, flexible means of addressing the needs of our employees,
students, and guests. Finally, the new network offers very flexible
network segmentation: VLAN pooling can automatically assign a VLAN to a
WLAN client, and the VLAN-related settings are based on the value returned
by RADIUS server. Taken together these features address the shortcomings
of our previous network and pave the way for a wide range of future
applications."
ARM technology simplifies network set-up, optimizes radio channels to
overcome local sources of interference, and ensures reliable performance in
densely-packed lecture halls. The result is follow-me connectivity that
ensures the reliable delivery of high-speed data, toll-quality voice, and
streaming video applications. ARM reliably supports Intel Centrino, Apple
Macintosh, and the broad array of wireless PC clients commonly used by
students, faculty, and staff.
The University of Macau relies on its wireless LAN as business-critical
infrastructure, and the legacy network suffered from disruptive outages if
a device failed. The new Aruba network features N+1 wireless controller
redundancy that automatically switches to a back-up controller in the event
of a failure.
"Universities include a diverse range of constituencies -- faculty, staff,
students, visitors -- and Aruba's highly flexible architecture is very well
suited to addressing such a wide range of users," said Denny Lo, Aruba's
Territory Manager. "Our solutions extend far beyond adaptive wireless LANs
and integrate multi-vendor network management, intrusion detection and
prevention, endpoint compliance, access control, fixed mobile convergence,
and a host of other technologies into a unified mobility solution. We
leveraged this wide range of capabilities to address diverse needs of
University of Macau, and look forward to providing similar solutions to
other universities in the region."
About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to
users, wherever they work or roam. Our mobility solutions enable the
Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:
-- Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure
that users are always within reach of mission-critical information;
-- Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing
those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
-- Remote access solutions and fixed mobile convergence ensure
uninterrupted access to applications as users move;
-- Multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control
while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from Aruba and its
competitors.
The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our secure 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.
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Mobile Edge Architecture, People Move. Networks Must Follow., RFProtect,
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Mobile Edge Company? are trademarks of Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights
reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
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Media Contacts
Michael Tennefoss
Aruba Networks, Inc.
+1-408-754-8034mtennefoss@arubanetworks.com
Patty Oien
Breakaway Communications
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