Taichung Veterans General Hospital Selects Aruba for New Wireless Network

Facility-Wide Wireless Medical Network Provides Roaming Staff With Voice Communications and Secure Access to Medical Records, Nurse Call, and Medication Data

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that Taiwan's Taichung Veterans General Hospital has selected Aruba to supply its wireless medical network. Founded in 1982, the 1,515 bed hospital has 2,918 doctors and staff, and serves 5,000 outpatients daily. The hospital is accredited at the highest levels by the Taiwan Department of Health and the Ministry of Education, and relies heavily on its networking infrastructure as a business-critical tool. A replacement was sought for the legacy wireless network after it was found unable to deliver toll-quality voice or offer high security for data transferred between the Internet and the medical network. Aruba was selected for the upgrade following a technical evaluation focused on voice over IP (VoIP) quality of service, interoperability with the existing data network, and network security.

"Aruba's excellent performance in the VoIP QoS tests, its compatibility with our core medical network, and the flexibility of its policy-based firewall -- especially for guest access -- convinced us that we should not only replace the existing network but expand Wi-Fi coverage throughout the entire hospital," said Ching-Wen Yang, Taichung Veterans General Hospital's Director of Computer Centers. "The system's guest access provides exceptional flexibility with respect to provisioning visitor and employee access based on bandwidth allocation, resource access, and group type. Our Wi-Fi network is at once secure, easy to manage, and very flexible -- an essential combination we always needed but had previously been unable to obtain."

The wireless medical network provides roaming physicians and staff with secure access to medical records, nurse call status, and patient medication data. Patients, visitors, and roaming physicians and nurses make toll-quality VoIP calls over the Wi-Fi network via a VoSKY Exchange voice bridge that is interconnected with the hospital's IP-PBX. This feature delivers the quality of service required by the hospital, and significantly reduces the cost of both domestic and international calls.

"Hospitals have very demanding wireless networking requirements by virtue of the regulatory environment in which they must operate, and the critical nature of the data, voice, and video information they handle," said Marco Lee, Country Manager of Aruba Taiwan. "Patient records must be secured, voice traffic delivery must be assured, and large video files must be reliably transported. Aruba's centralized encryption, adaptive radio management, and client-to-core security address these requirements and are well-suited to healthcare applications. It's one reason why Taichung Veterans General Hospital and hundreds of other hospitals, clinics, and healthcare institutions worldwide have selected Aruba mobility solutions."

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 networking 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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