Aruba Networks and Alcatel-Lucent Team to Develop Next-Generation Unified Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise
The Two Companies To Usher in New Generation of Business-Critical Infrastructure to Deliver
Secure Integrated Wired, Wireless, and Fixed Mobile Convergence Solutions
PARIS, France and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 26, 2007 - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:
ARUN), a global leader in secure mobility solutions, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) today announced their intent to establish a joint venture focused on developing
next-generation wired and wireless solutions for the enterprise. Together, the two companies
will drive a new phase of business-critical enterprise infrastructure for a new generation of
business users. The solution will be designed to identify, authenticate, and manage users
regardless of the means by which they access the network, something no other enterprise
system provides today.
The joint venture will focus on the design and delivery of hardware and software modules that
add secure wireless LAN switching to Alcatel-Lucent's next generation products. These
modules, used in combination with Alcatel-Lucent platforms, will address the growing need for
pervasive secure mobility in Enterprises of any size.
Alcatel-Lucent will market and sell a best-of-class mobility solution that combines Aruba's
secure mobile technology with Alcatel-Lucent's wired network infrastructure and
communication/collaboration applications suite. The resulting platform will be designed to allow
enterprises to experience the many benefits of secure mobility, including unparalleled mobile
communication and collaboration user experience, without comprising the integrity of their
business-critical network traffic.
Aruba's user-centric networking technology securely extends enterprise networks and
applications to users, regardless of their locale and independent of the network over which they
communicate. By associating security policies with users, instead of ports or hardware, the
policies can be enforced independently of how or where a user accesses the network. This
unique follow-me security capability provides unprecedented mobility for users while ensuring
that security is always enforced.
"Integrating Aruba's user-centric networking technology with Alcatel-Lucent's next generation of
LAN switches, unified messaging and teleconferencing systems, and mobile access switches
will usher in a new class of converged mobility infrastructure," said Dominic Orr, Aruba's
president and CEO. "The resulting solution will deliver best-of-class connectivity and switching,
enhance the productivity of mobile users, and ensure the reliable delivery of business-critical
applications within even the largest enterprises."
"This venture will combine Alcatel-Lucent's award winning infrastructure with Aruba's strength in
secure mobility solutions to create network solutions for the new business generation - ones
which are capable of meeting the needs of an 'always on communications' generation who want
access anywhere, any time," said Tom Burns, president of Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Solutions
activities. "In creating a new class of infrastructure, our companies will deliver a faster, denser, business-critical mobile solution that enterprises need to transform their networks for a
technological competitive edge."
Alcatel-Lucent was among the first major enterprise players to market a fixed mobile
convergence solution that seamlessly switches between enterprise Wi-Fi networks and public
mobile phone networks. The company's comprehensive communication application suite
encompasses data, voice, video, LAN, and public switched networking solutions.
About Aruba Networks, Inc.
Aruba's user-centric architecture provides access to enterprise data, voice and video
applications across wired and wireless LAN, WAN, and carrier networks without compromising
security or mobility. Follow-me security and access policies are centrally managed and
associated with users, not ports, and are enforced regardless of where users roam within or
outside of the enterprise. Aruba's solution suite encompasses ArubaOS software running on a
range of Mobility Controller hardware platforms, value-added application software modules
including an enterprise FMC option, network management software, wired and wireless access
points, and valued-added access point software modules including a secure enterprise mesh
option for wire-free networking. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Aruba has operations
throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. To learn more,
visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service
providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video
communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband
networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end
solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on
the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with
global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and
one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications
industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is
incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of
activities transferred to Thales]. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com.
