Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology 
Wed, October 14, 2009
Tue, October 13, 2009
Aruba Networks, Inc.: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Deploys Wireless Network From Aruba Networks and Authorize
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - October 13, 2009) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (
"Our priority is to deliver an infrastructure that enables improvement in clinical care," said Steve Edwards, head of IT development services at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. "It is generally recognised that mobile access to applications and services improves efficiency in a clinical environment -- saving several hours a week of clinical time. That equates to clinicians seeing more patients, spending more time with patients, and patients spending less time waiting for treatment. The Aruba network is the cornerstone of a flexible IT infrastructure that allows us to deploy mobile applications based on imaging (PACS), data (administration applications) or voice over IP."
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has found Aruba's solution to be straight-forward to deploy, reliable, easy to use. Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology lowers deployment and maintenance costs by automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time. This feature simplifies the work of the Trust's IT team; installation of access points can be done by a single technician, and the automated RF management feature ensures faultless performance despite a plethora of neighboring consumer wireless networks.
"Aruba won our technical evaluation on all points," continued Edwards. "In practice, the Aruba equipment is 'self contained'; it goes in and works the first time. It doesn't need any tweaking by our staff, and as a result has a low total cost of ownership. From an architectural viewpoint, ARM is a better solution than a single channel model, both with regard to interference mitigation and because it's standards based and not proprietary. The proof is in the deployment results -- our implementation team find the Aruba wireless LAN easy to deploy, highly reliable, and readily scalable."
"Gloucestershire Hospitals' experience is proof positive that Aruba can lower the IT overhead and life cycle costs of a wireless LAN," said Bob Vickers, sales director for Aruba Networks UK and Ireland. "New access points can be added as and wherever needed, and the network infrastructure will automatically ensure that they work optimally. This frees the IT staff to work on other projects, while the wireless network looks after itself."
About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam, using a combination of award-winning solutions:
-- Adaptive 802.11n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information. Rightsizing expensive wired LANs by replacing them with high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi reduces both capital and operating expenses; -- Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed; -- Remote networking solutions for branch offices, fixed telecommuters, and satellite facilities ensures uninterrupted remote access to applications; -- 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 ].
About Vanix
Vanix is part of privately owned Ampito group, based in Guildford, Surrey. With a proven ability to translate leading edge IP technologies in the infrastructure, convergence and security arenas into practical solutions and services, Vanix addresses the real business needs of its customers. Vanix offers a wide range of consultancy and value-added service solutions aimed at enterprise, service provider, and public services organisations. For additional information please visit Vanix on-line at [ http://www.vanix.co.uk ]
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