Presented at The Wireless Event, London, the award recognizes the best-of- class security features of ArubaOS 3.1 and the Aruba wireless LAN Mobility Controllers on which it runs LONDON, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in secure mobility solutions, today announced that its ArubaOS 3.1 software won the Best Wireless Broadband Security Innovation category at the Wireless Broadband Innovations Awards in London. Sponsored by BT, Connect Spot, FON, Intel, and Trustive, among others, the award was presented at The Wireless Event, one of the world's largest broadband wireless shows. The award recognizes Aruba's leadership, innovation and excellence in the wireless broadband security industry. The ArubaOS 3.1 software runs on all Aruba wireless LAN Mobility Controllers, and features client quarantining and blocking, guest tracking, and integration with existing security devices, event management and intrusion prevention platforms including Snort. "Aruba Networks has proven itself as a true Wireless Broadband Innovation Award winner by providing excellence and innovation in a highly competitive market place," said Michael Gebert, organizer of the WBI Awards. "With more than 170 nominations entries from 30 countries across the world, Aruba is well-positioned to grow into the future with wireless broadband." Aruba's user-centric networks securely extend the reach of enterprise voice, data, and video applications over LANs, WLANs, WANs, WLANs, and FMC carrier networks to users wherever they roam. Follow-me security ensures that protection and policies always envelop the user, regardless of the method of broadband connection, instead of forcing users to connect to a network through specific ports. Combined with centralized security management, stateful firewalling, access control, and client-to-core authentication and encryption, Aruba's follow-me security extends enterprise security to traveling users everywhere they go. "Aruba has focused its research and development teams on overcoming the traditional trade-off between mobility and security," said Rob Pronk, Aruba's director of marketing for EMEA. "The ArubaOS 3.1 software demonstrates that enterprise security can be enforced for all users, at all times, everywhere they travel, without in any way hampering mobility. This award, for which we are most grateful, acknowledges that Aruba has accomplished this task using a thoroughly novel and innovative approach that resulted in a best-of-class product." About Aruba Networks, Inc. Aruba's user-centric architecture provides access to enterprise data, voice and video applications across wired and wireless LAN, WAN, and carrier networks without compromising security or mobility. Follow-me security and access policies are centrally managed and associated with users, not ports, and are enforced regardless of where users roam within or outside of the enterprise. Aruba's solution suite encompasses ArubaOS software running on a range of Mobility Controller hardware platforms, value-added application software modules including an enterprise FMC option, network management software, wired and wireless access points, and valued-added access point software modules including a secure enterprise mesh option for wire-free networking. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Aruba has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com/. Aruba Networks is a registered trademark, and Aruba The Mobile Edge Company and Mobile Edge Architecture are trademarks of Aruba Networks, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Portions (C) 2007 Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. DATASOURCE: Aruba Networks, Inc. CONTACT: Michael Tennefoss of Aruba Networks, Inc., +1-408-754-8034, ; Jay Nichols of Sterling Communications, Inc., +1-415-392-2300, Web site: http://www.arubanetworks.com/

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