ARUBA NETWORKS APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT OF JAPANESE SUBSIDIARY.

Aruba Networks (NASDAQ:ARUN), Sunnydale, Calif., a global leader in secure mobility solutions, has announced the appointment of Ryoji Tsuchimoto as the new president of its wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary, Aruba Networks Japan KK. Mr. Tsuchimoto brings with him over 25 years of networking and telecommunications experience, having previously served at NCR, AT&T, 3Com, Enterasys KK, and Verisign. This appointment is the culmination of a series of expansions throughout the Asia Pacific region by Aruba, which now fields offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

"Unlocking the potential of the Japanese market requires an executive manager with great depth of experience and local market knowledge," said Dominic Orr, Aruba's president and CEO. "Mr. Tsuchimoto comes to Aruba with broad relationships within the Japanese business community, and is especially well respected for his commitment to customer service and support. Aruba's successes in Japan's business, educational, energy, and telecommunications markets provide a solid foundation on which Mr. Tsuchimoto can accelerate the growth of our business in this quality and service-sensitive market."

Aruba's secure mobility solutions include purpose-built, high performance wireless LANs and client-to-core security products that are easily deployed and compatible with existing LAN and WAN infrastructure. "Japanese enterprise customers value highly reliable, highly secure mobility solutions that encompass converged data, toll-quality voice, and streaming video applications," continued Mr. Orr. "Our announced FMC strategy is to seamlessly integrate these applications with carriers to reach mobile users, regardless of location, and Mr. Tsuchimoto's telecommunications experience will be invaluable in achieving this goal."

About Aruba Networks, Inc.

Aruba Networks provides an enterprise mobility solution that enables secure access to data, voice and video applications across wireless and wireline enterprise networks. The Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture allows end-users to roam to different locations within an enterprise campus or office building, as well as to remote locations such as branch and home offices, while maintaining secure and consistent access to all of their network resources. Using the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture, IT departments can manage user-based network access and enforce application delivery policies from a single integrated point of control in a consistent manner. Aruba's user- centric enterprise mobility solution integrates the ArubaOS operating system, optional value-added software modules, a centralized mobility management system, high-performance programmable mobility controllers, and wired and wireless access points. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Aruba has operations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and employs staff around the world.

For more information, visit http://www.arubanetworks.com or call 408/754-8034.