Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent eye enterprise customers

Aruba Networks Inc. announced a new teaming with infrastructure heavyweight Alcatel-Lucent to target the market for enterprise mobility. The companies said they would jointly sell hardware and software to businesses that would allow workers to access corporate information from a variety of networks.
“Integrating Aruba’s user-centric networking technology with Alcatel-Lucent’s next-generation of LAN switches, unified messaging and teleconferencing systems, and mobile access switches will usher in a new class of converged mobility infrastructure,” said Dominic Orr, Aruba’s president and CEO. “The resulting solution will deliver best-of-class connectivity and switching, enhance the productivity of mobile users, and ensure the reliable delivery of business-critical applications within even the largest enterprises.”
The teaming is notable as a number of other major infrastructure companies are targeting enterprise customers. Indeed, Nortel Networks Ltd. recently teamed with Microsoft Corp. for such an effort.