Aruba Networks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in 2008 Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure

News Caps a Year in Which Aruba Solidified Its Position as World's Second Largest Enterprise Wireless LAN Vendor and Sales Since Inception Passed $500 Million Mark

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that it has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant in Gartner's 2008 "Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure" report. Magic Quadrants evaluate vendors based on the completeness of their vision and ability to execute.

The report notes that "A vendor in the Leaders quadrant needs to have demonstrated an ability to meet a broad variety of customer requirements, including providing an end-to-end infrastructure-based solution and having financial viability to continue that support beyond a single installation. Leaders must have demonstrated an ability to shape the market, maintain strong relationships with their channels and customers, and have no obvious gaps within their product portfolio."

"We are honored to be so recognized in the 2008 report, a year in which Aruba added an average of 700 new customers each quarter, carved out a sizeable share of the 802.11n market, passed $500 million in sales since inception, and solidified our position as one of the top two enterprise wireless LAN vendors," said Dominic Orr, Aruba's president and CEO. "Our focus on lowering operating expenses using Wi-Fi, security, remote networking, and multi-vendor network management products will, we believe, serve us especially well in a market in search of cost-containment and productivity-enhancement solutions. Moreover, our solid position as a public company with positive cash flow and no debt should give customers the confidence they seek in a market rife with financially fragile suppliers."

Aruba's patent-pending Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology lowers Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance costs by automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time. Acting on their own, Wi-Fi clients do not always work cooperatively with other clients, or select the optimal band, channel, and access point. These issues are exacerbated in settings with densely packed users such as university lecture halls and libraries. ARM uses a variety of techniques to control how Wi-Fi clients interact, thereby helping to ensure that data, voice, and video applications have sufficient network resources to operate properly. The result is that end-users enjoy a better wireless experience.

Aruba's centralized architecture delivers switch-like performance and lowers IT operating expenses by simplifying network set-up, expansion, and updates. Whether managing a single campus or a multi-national enterprise, the centralized architecture delivers blistering performance yet requires minimal IT staff overhead to manage.

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.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

© 2009 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, Green Island, and The Mobile Edge Company® are trademarks of Aruba Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. (1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure" by Michael J. King and Timothy Zimmerman, November 26, 2008.