Hess Corporation Strikes Oil With Aruba Networks’ Secure Mobility Solution
2/11/2008
Sunnyvale, CA
Energy Giant Reduces Costs And Increases Productivity By Deploying Networks In Corporate Offices And Deep Water Platforms Around The World
Sunnyvale, CA, February 11, 2008 – Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today announced that Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES), a Fortune 100 energy company headquartered in New York, is deploying Aruba’s converged data, voice, and video networks and client-to-core security solutions throughout its corporate offices and deepwater platforms in Australia, Denmark, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Aruba’s wireless LANS and identity-based security provide Hess employees with access to enterprise applications across wired and wireless LAN and WAN networks without compromising security or mobility.
“Aruba’s network applies security policies to users, not the equipment they carry,” said Dave Hammell, senior network engineer and wireless architect for Hess. “Once a policy is assigned it follows that user everywhere he or she travels – remote offices, off-shore platforms, hotels. We no longer have the burden and expense of tracking and managing the equipment they use, which reduces our IT support costs. Additionally, because Aruba can be easily overlaid on top of our existing wired network, only a single Hess technician is needed to install the equipment at a site.”
Hess centrally configures and manages the network from a U.S. data center. Besides installations at corporate facilities, Aruba�s ruggedized outdoor access points are used to connect five deepwater platforms, some as much as 10 kilometers apart. The platforms communicate via a redundant mesh network to provide reliable communications in rugged environments.
“Hess has demonstrated on a global scale, including in some very inhospitable environments, that Aruba’s user-centric networks are robust, easy to deploy, and have lower life-cycle costs,” said Keerti Melkote, Aruba’s founder and head of products and partnerships. “The same equipment, the same security protection, and the same network management infrastructure simultaneously serve the CEO and the remote oil rig workers. I cannot think of a better example to highlight the flexibility and extensibility of Aruba’s platform than what Hess has accomplished with their global network.”
About Hess Corporation
Hess Corporation, with headquarters in New York, is a global integrated energy company engaged in the exploration for and the development, production, purchase, transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas. The Corporation also manufactures, purchases, transports, trades and markets refined petroleum and other energy products. To learn more, visit Hess at http://www.hess.com.
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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Aruba Networks, Inc.
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Breakaway Communications.
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Will Rea
Hess Corporation
+1-212-536-8381
wrea@hess.com
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