Aruba Installation At University College London Hospitals NHS Trust Is Largest Single Wireless Network In The UK

Leading WLAN Provider Enables Secure Wireless Access to Patient Records at Flagship London Hospital

LONDON, UK and SUNNYVALE, California - September 15, 2005 -As part of a major overhaul of IT infrastructure at the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Trust, Aruba Networks WLAN technology has been used to create what is believed to be the United Kingdom's largest single wireless network, covering 7,000 users in eight hospitals, including UCLH's new flagship £422M hospital on Euston Road, London.

The wireless network consists of three Aruba 5000 mobility controllers and over 300 centrally managed access points (APs). It has been installed primarily to accommodate UCLH's move to a completely paperless, Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system over the next few years, and will enable doctors and nurses to access patient information on the move anywhere within the hospitals, from bedside to operating theater.

"This is a great illustration of the vital role that wireless technology has to play in a modern hospital environment," said Kevin Jarrold, director of information management at UCLH. "Moving away from paper-based patient records to a wireless-accessible electronic system really frees up the way that medical staff work. Not only is information more accurate, but notes can be referred to and updated in real-time from anywhere in the hospital. This is particularly useful when a patient is being moved and the doctor requires access to his or her record en route."

Due to the sensitive nature of the information contained in patient records, security is a key issue for UCLH. Aruba protects patient information by adopting a centralized multi-layer security protection strategy, whereby any user or device attempting to connect to a corporate system is authenticated and checked for potential threats before being allowed onto the UCLH network. Additionally, all encryption is implemented by a centralized hardware-accelerated encryption engine rather than in individual access points.

"UCLH is at the forefront of both technology innovation and clinical care," said Bob Vickers, head of sales UK, Aruba Networks. "Not only will the wireless network immediately increase the efficiency of information access, but it also represents the foundation of future converged communications advances. For instance, the network is fully ready for VoIP over wireless."

About UCLH

Based in central London, UCLH has eight specialist hospitals, which provide care and treatment for local people, commuters and visitors to London, as well highly specialized services for patients referred from virtually every country in the world.

A new £422 million hospital based on the Euston Road, the largest NHS building project in the country, will provide patients, staff and visitors with world class facilities and an opportunity to embrace new ways of working to improve the patient experience and maximize the potential of new technology.

Its links with the Royal Free and University College Medical School, make UCLH one of the leading centers for medical education, training and research and home to the largest research and development program in the NHS.

About Aruba Networks, Inc.

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 and fixed mobile convergence 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.

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