The report notes that "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. Leaders must have demonstrated an ability to shape the market, maintain strong relationships with their channels and customers, and have no obvious gaps within their product portfolio."

"We are honored to be so recognized in the 2008 report, a year in which Aruba added an average of 700 new customers each quarter, carved out a sizeable share of the 802.11n market, passed $500 million in sales since inception, and solidified our position as one of the top two enterprise wireless LAN vendors," said Dominic Orr, Aruba's president and CEO. "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. 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."

Aruba's patent-pending Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technology lowers Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance costs by automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to optimize the performance of Wi-Fi clients in real-time. Acting on their own, Wi-Fi clients do not always work cooperatively with other clients, or select the optimal band, channel, and access point. These issues are exacerbated in settings with densely packed users such as university lecture halls and libraries. ARM uses a variety of techniques to control how Wi-Fi clients interact, thereby helping to ensure that data, voice, and video applications have sufficient network resources to operate properly. The result is that end-users enjoy a better wireless experience.

Aruba's centralized architecture delivers switch-like performance and lowers IT operating expenses by simplifying network set-up, expansion, and updates. Whether managing a single campus or a multi-national enterprise, the centralized architecture delivers blistering performance yet requires minimal IT staff overhead to manage.

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By Robert Hoskins

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