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Aruba Networks Hits Shipping Mark
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Aruba Networks, a provider of wireless LANs and secure unified mobility
solutions, announced that its shipments of 802.11n enabled access
points have passed a milestone 10,000 units.
Aruba announced its dual-radio AP-124 and AP-125 802.11n Access Point
family in November 2007, and volume shipments commenced in February
2008. The company's AP-124ABG and AP-125ABG field-upgradable access
points were announced last month. Based on 2nd generation RF chips, the
access points can be powered from a single 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet
source and feature 3x3 MIMO operation and ultra-compact packaging.
"The second half of 2007 saw the first shipments of coordinated
enterprise-class '802.11n Draft 2.0 Wi-Fi Certified' access points,"
said Gartner Senior Research Analyst Christian Canales, author of
Gartner Dataquest's 2008 "Market Share: Enterprise Wireless LAN
Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q07 and 2007" report. "Worldwide revenue from
sales of WLAN enterprise equipment increased more than 10 percent from
2006 to 2007, and coordinated access points accounted for 48 percent of
the overall enterprise access point shipments in the last quarter of
2007, versus just 39 percent in the last quarter of 2006."
The California State University system, recipient of the 10,000th
802.11n access point, selected Aruba's wireless networks for use across
its 23 campuses in September 2007. With nearly 450,000 students and
46,000 faculty and staff members, the California State University
system is the largest in the country. Aruba was selected after it
passed a stringent functional test, and demonstrated the lowest total
cost of ownership for the specific criteria used in the evaluation.
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