McGill University Cuts the Cord and Moves to Aruba Wireless Network

Market Wire, April, 2008

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today announced that McGill University has joined a succession of Canadian universities in deploying Aruba's adaptive wireless LANs across its two Montreal campuses. McGill University is one of the largest universities in the province of Quebec, with more than 33,000 students and 1,570 faculty and staff members. The university has already deployed more than 2,700 out of a total of 3,700 Aruba wireless access points, making it among the largest university wireless networks in Canada. Including McGill University, Aruba networks now serve more than 250,000 students in Canada at universities from coast-to-coast.

"To work reliably in an educational institution a wireless LAN must be highly adaptable, massively scalable, and secure in the extreme," said Gary Bernstein, McGill University's IT Director. "Faculty and students alike look to the wireless network as an indispensable tool on a daily basis, and network outages are just not acceptable in this environment. McGill conducted an exhaustive technical evaluation and field trial before selecting Aruba for this application, and we are very pleased with both the speed of deployment and the solid performance of the installed network."

Aruba's adaptive radio management (ARM) technology delivers follow-me connectivity by automating common network set-up, survey, and maintenance tasks, and then continuously optimizing network performance to support data, toll-quality voice, and streaming video applications. ARM also reliably supports the wide array of student-owned laptops using Intel, Atheros, Broadcom, and a host of other Wi-Fi radio technologies. Comparative testing has shown that such broad interoperability is a challenge for many wireless LANs, however, ARM technology handles it with aplomb.

"Universities are challenging environments for wireless networks because of the size of their campuses, the large number of simultaneous users, the dynamic nature of network usage, and the security challenge posed by tens of thousands of unsecured laptops," said Fran Sanda, Aruba's manager for Canadian sales. "In addition to the robustness and adaptability of our wireless LAN, the ease-of-use of its centralized network management architecture, and the strength of its security features, we believe ARM played a central role in delivering the solid performance McGill University and its users have experienced."

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.

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Media Contacts Michael Tennefoss Aruba Networks, Inc. 1-408-754-8034 mtennefoss@arubanetworks.com Patty Oien Breakaway Communications 1-415-358-2482 poien@breakawaycom.com