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Aruba Networks, Inc.: The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto Deploys Aruba Mobility Solutions for Smart Pump Data Collection

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SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - June 8, 2009) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ ARUN ]), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that The Hospital For Sick Children, an affiliate of the University of Toronto, has deployed an Aruba wireless LAN throughout the hospital to collect data, transport patient records, and manage voice calls. Founded in 1875, the hospital has more than 5,000 physicians and staff members, and handles more than 260 inpatients daily. As part of its ongoing initiative to improve patient care, the hospital wanted to deploy a highly stable and reliable wireless infrastructure, compliant with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The new wireless infrastructure will collect data from wireless smart pumps, provide secure access to patient records, handle staff voice paging, and deliver data access to roaming staff members working in the isolation wards. Following a public tender, Aruba was selected for the project on the basis of its low total cost of ownership, high security wireless network, toll-quality voice capabilities, and centralized management architecture.

"Our hospital is focused on continuous quality improvement and an important element of that program is linking patient pharmaceutical records with real-time drug infusion dosing," said Gary Nero, the hospital's Director of Support and Network Services. "Aruba's wireless LAN provides effective connectivity to our smart pumps, and securely delivers patient records to caregivers at the point of delivery. The wireless LAN also carries voice traffic so that situations can be quickly addressed, regardless of where the attending physician is working. The result has been an improvement in patient care."

Hospitals present a challenging signaling environment for wireless LANs because of their concrete and steel building construction, the wide variety of RF telemetry devices in use, and the potential for interference from wireless networks in nearby clinics. Aruba's adaptive radio management (ARM) technology addresses these challenges by delivering robust connectivity by continuously optimizing RF band and channel selection, power output levels, access point loading, airtime allocation, and interference mitigation. As a result, data, voice, and video applications receive the network resources, including airtime, needed to operate properly. By closing the gap between the theoretical performance of wireless networks and what is achieved in real-world deployments, ARM delivers a more reliable wireless experience.

"The secure and reliable delivery of data and records is a business-critical task for healthcare institutions, one that can directly affect both the institution's reputation and its bottom line," said Manav Khurana, Aruba's head of industry marketing. "Hospitals worldwide choose Aruba wireless LANs because our client-to-core security meets PIPEDA and HIPAA requirements, ARM technology delivers reliable wireless coverage, and our centralized management architecture is very easy to manage with existing staff. We're very pleased to welcome The Hospital For Sick Children into our fast-growing roster of healthcare customers."

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 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 ]. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter at [ http://twitter.com/ArubaNetworks ].

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