Aruba and Riverbed Announce Solutions for Mobile Workers and the Server-Less Remote Office

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, and Riverbed™ Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced a joint solution that allows mobile and remote users to achieve LAN-like access to data and applications wherever they work or roam. The joint solution also establishes a new productivity and real-time collaboration model for remote offices by offering untethered wireless connectivity without compromising network security or application performance.

Industry estimates suggest that 67 percent of employees work outside of company headquarters, and according to IDC the number of mobile workers is expected to rise to over 1 billion by 2011. Geographic and technical hurdles have made it difficult for remote workers to collaborate globally and productively. Building out IT infrastructure at remote offices to replicate the corporate headquarters experience is not a viable option for most enterprises because of the significant costs, administrative overhead, and potential data loss associated with current alternatives.

"CIOs with mobile and remote workforces face a real dilemma delivering application performance to mobile workers across long distances, while simultaneously consolidating infrastructure to improve data security, management and TCO," said Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner. "The solution must deliver LAN-like performance to remote users while keeping infrastructure costs in check."

Aruba's Remote Access Points enable mobile workers, road warriors, and disaster-recovery teams to work remotely by transparently establishing a link to primary or back-up enterprise data centers and then enforcing identity-based access to authorized applications. The Riverbed® award-winning WDS solutions accelerate applications and data for remote offices and mobile workers across wide area networks (WANs), while Riverbed Steelhead® Mobile Client delivers LAN-like application performance to all employees, regardless of location. The combination of these Aruba and Riverbed technologies reliably delivers the enterprise experience to remote users, without compromising speed or incurring the limitations of VPN and managed clients.

"Bringing the enterprise experience to mobile workers reduces travel costs, lowers hydrocarbon emissions, and enhances productivity by bringing the network to the point of use," said Andrew Harding, Aruba's head of business development. "A typical 45 mile commute wastes time that could otherwise be productively employed, and generates about 5.5 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. Companies that want a competitive advantage must avoid wasting resources – intellectual and natural – and the best way to accomplish that is by providing unfettered access to enterprise applications from everywhere a worker might roam."

"This plug-and-play mobile worker and remote office solution from Aruba and Riverbed will help our joint customers truly realize the benefits of a consolidated IT infrastructure," said Venugopal Pai, senior director, alliances at Riverbed. "With fewer remote office build-outs and less remote infrastructure to manage, administrative overhead decreases and services can be delivered from a centralized and secure computing model. CIOs can cut costs and complexity with virtually no degradation in application delivery speed to remote and mobile knowledge workers."

Steelhead Products
Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, click here to view our demo.

About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

About Aruba Networks
People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our unified mobility solutions include Wi-Fi networks, identity-based security, remote access and cellular services, and centralized multi-vendor network management to enable the Follow-Me Enterprise that moves in lock-step with users:

•     * Follow-Me Connectivity: Adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information;
•     * Follow-Me Security: Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
•     * Follow-Me Applications: Remote access solutions and cellular network integration ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move;
•     * Follow-Me Management: Multi-vendor network management provides a single point of control while managing both legacy and new wireless networks from both Aruba and its competitors.

The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our unified 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 www.arubanetworks.com.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Aruba and/or Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause Aruba and/or Riverbed's results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause Aruba and/or Riverbed's results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to react to trends and challenges in Aruba and/or Riverbed's business and the markets in which Aruba and/or Riverbed operate; Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of Aruba and/or Riverbed's products; Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with Aruba and/or Riverbed's distribution partners; Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to compete in Aruba and/or Riverbed's industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for Aruba and/or Riverbed's products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in Aruba and/or Riverbed's supply chain; Aruba and/or Riverbed's ability to protect their respective intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by Aruba and Riverbed. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in Riverbed's Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on April 29, 2008. More information about these and other risks that may impact Aruba's business are set forth in Aruba's Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on March 7, 2008. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Aruba and Riverbed as of the date hereof, and Aruba and Riverbed assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Aruba and Riverbed each reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

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