Aruba Wireless Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California, introduced a new Wi-Fi platform that acts as an intelligent, centralized switching system for wireless services within a corporation. Aruba’s new Wi-Fi switching system combines wireless network access and air monitoring with Gigabit Ethernet switching and higher-layer packet processing. The system is designed as a centralized control point for thousands of wireless users. It provides an automated wireless intrusion prevention feature that proactively searches for rogue access points on the network and prevents users from connecting to them. In addition to protecting the air, Aruba’s switching system creates a private switched connection per user over the air. Aruba’s switch isolates individual users’ traffic and authenticates users over their individual switched connections using standard schemes such as 802.1X. Once authenticated, the switch applies unique per-user stateful firewall policies to ensure that the user has access only to resources that they are authorized for in the network.
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- Aruba Wireless Networks has received $10 million of Initial venture funding from Matrix Partners and Sequoia Capital. The company was founded by Pankaj Manglik and Keerti Melkote, formerly from Alteon WebSystems, Cisco Systems and Intel.
