Enterprises Gather in New York City to See the First Wi-Fi Switching System
To Automate Deployment and Reliably Secure Air Space
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ --
Marking a major milestone in the advancement of
wireless network technology, many of the world's
largest enterprises gathered in New York City last
week to witness the first public demonstration of
new Wi-Fi switching technology.
Keerti Melkote, co-founder and vice president
of Product Management, welcomed a cross-section of
leading companies from financial services,
industrial manufacturing and government sectors.
"In this day and age, seeing is believing,"
said Emile Rashkovich, first vice president and
CIO of Sentinel Real Estate Corporation in New
York City. "I was there. I saw it. And it works as
advertised."
The demonstration, held at the Tribeca Grill on
Thursday, January 16, showed three new Wi-Fi
technologies, never before available within a
single system. The demonstration included: -- automating the site survey process and providing self-healing,
self-calibrating Wi-Fi networks to lower costs and simplify deployment
-- locking the air with wireless intrusion prevention to proactively
protect against internal and external security breaches
-- mobile firewalling that allows companies to ensure secure user mobility
and provides policies for different types of mobile users.
Aruba's WLAN switching system is the first to
combine a variety of new Wi-Fi technologies
heretofore available only in discrete point
products. In addition, Aruba has added significant
new capabilities, such as mobile firewalls to make
wireless networks more secure than wired networks
and automated Wi-Fi calibration, which now
radically simplifies the large-scale deployment of
Wi-Fi networks (see related release).
"This was a significant event for the Wi-Fi
industry," said Pankaj Manglik, president and CEO
of Aruba Wireless Networks. "New Wi-Fi startups
have been long on vision and short on working
product. As an industry, we must prove beyond a
shadow of a doubt, that a reliable, secure and
scalable Wi-Fi infrastructure can be
cost-effectively deployed. We've done just that."
About Aruba Wireless Networks
Founded in February 2002, Aruba Wireless
Networks Is a privately held wireless networking
startup based In San Jose, California. The company
is credited with developing the world's first
enterprise-class Wi-Fi switching system that lets
corporations lock the air, automate the deployment
of large-scale Wi-Fi networks, and ensure seamless
mobility by a variety of different users. Aruba
Wireless Networks has received $10 million of
Initial venture funding from Matrix Partners and
Sequoia Capital. In addition to Its founders,
Pankaj Manglik and Keerti Melkote, formerly from
Alteon WebSystems, Cisco Systems and Intel
Corporation, Aruba's Board of Directors includes
Shirish Sathaye, general partner at Matrix
Partners, Doug Leone, general partner at Sequoia
Capital and Dominic Orr, former chief executive
officer at Alteon WebSystems. Visit Aruba Wireless
Networks at http://www.arubanetworks.com/ .
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