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Aruba Networks, a company specializing in wireless local area networks (LANs) and mobility solutions, has been recognized by market research firm, Gartner for asserting its position as the world's second largest enterprise wireless LAN vendor.

 

The company has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's (News - Alert) 2008 “Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure” report, a criterion that evaluates vendors based on the completeness of their vision and ability to execute.

 

According to the report, 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.

 

The report further demands that leaders should demonstrate the ability to shape the market, maintain strong relationships with their channels and customers, and have no obvious gaps within their product portfolio.

 

The year 2008 had been encouraging for Aruba Networks (News - Alert). The company added an average of 700 new customers each quarter and grabbed a significant share of the 802.11n market, passed $500 million in sales since inception, and solidified its position as one of the top two enterprise wireless LAN vendors, says Dominic Orr (News - Alert), Aruba's president and CEO.

 

Aruba provides technology to reduce WiFi deployment and maintenance costs. Aruba's patent-pending Adaptive Radio Management (ARM (News - Alert)) technology automates site surveys and uses infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of WiFi clients in real-time.

 

The company offers remote networking solutions and fixed mobile convergence that ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move. The adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi (News - Alert) networks optimize themselves to ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information. The multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from Aruba and its competitors.

 

Aruba's centralized architecture delivers switch-like performance and lowers IT operating expenses by simplifying network set-up, expansion, and updates, the company said. Its identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed.

 

“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,” Orr added. “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.”

 

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