Group Lapeyre, a Subsidiary of Group Saint Gobain, Selects Aruba Networks’ Mobile Edge for Industrial Sites
11/28/2006
Sunnyvale, CA and Paris
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PARIS, November 28, 2006 – Aruba Networks, the Mobile Edge Company, today announced that Group Lapeyre, a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe, and a subsidiary of Group Saint Gobain, is expanding its deployment of Aruba’s Mobile Edge architecture. While Group Lapeyre has had Aruba’s mobility solutions deployed at its headquarters since 2004, the company is now extending this network to the Group’s industrial sites, including several factories, warehouses and shipping docks.
“As far as we’re concerned, Aruba’s solutions guarantee the best performance on the market today, incorporating simplified and centralized deployment and management as well as highly evolved security functions such as a stateful firewalls, encryption, authentication and IDS/IPS to meet with even the most rigorous demands,” said Patrick Goubin, Group Lapeyre’s networks and telecoms manager. “The combination of these qualities has led to the solutions being referenced throughout Group Saint Gobain companies.”
In addition to the wireless installation at Lapeyre’s headquarters, Aruba 800 mobility controllers and Aruba AP 60/61 Access Points (APs) are being deployed at four of Lapeyre’s industrial sites. Additionally, all new sites will be equipped with Aruba mobility solutions.
A concentration of APs will be placed in the warehouse and shipping areas to ensure quality coverage in areas where signal interference is common and where building materials absorb radio waves (e.g., tiling). Aruba’s advanced security capabilities enable information to be securely transmitted to industrial, “hardened” tablet PCs installed on forklifts in factories and warehouses. Warehouse and logistics workers also use wireless handheld scanners for inventory tracking.
“When you are faced with the context of an industrial site where configurations change regularly, wireless is the only viable technology,” continued Goubin. “With the Aruba Mobile Edge architecture, we are able to use the same mobility controller to implement different configurations with varying levels of authentication, according to the requirements of the environment.”
Lapeyre also intends to deploy a WLAN within the warehouses and factory meeting rooms by next year. Numerous other possible applications are under review and will be deployed in accordance with Group Lapeyre’s priorities.
“Within the manufacturing and logistics sectors, Aruba’s Mobile Edge supports new strategic business applications such as warehouse stock management, RFID and location-based services that contribute to overall efficiency, customer satisfaction and profitability,” said Gary Singh, Aruba Network’s head of marketing. “We are very happy that Lapeyre, a leader in its market and a company on the cutting edge of innovation, has chosen Aruba for its secure, scalable and cost-effective wireless network and applications.”
About Lapeyre
Lapeyre manufactures and sells fixtures and fittings for throughout the house. For the interior: doors, stairs, flooring, cupboards and shelving, complete kitchens, bathrooms and tiling. For the exterior: windows and shutters, outside doors and garage doors, gates, garden furniture and equipment.
Through its network of 130 stores, Lapeyre is a real force to be heard. Their facilities and services are offered to individual customers and to craftsmen–, organizing their home improvement projects–from the simplest to the most elaborate. The Lapeyre Group is a part of the Saint-Gobain Group of companies (Construction Distribution branch).
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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