Aruba Networks Appoints Seasoned Industry Veteran as Chief Operating Officer

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global
leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced the
appointment of Hitesh Sheth to the newly created position of Chief
Operating Officer reporting to Dominic Orr, Aruba's President and Chief
Executive Officer. Mr. Sheth brings with him over 20 years of enterprise
and service provider experience, most recently as the Executive Vice
President and General Manager of Juniper Networks' Ethernet Platforms
Business Group. In this position Mr. Sheth had overall responsibility for
driving the Ethernet switching business. Aruba's growth and market
expansion since its 2007 public offering prompted creation of the COO
position, enabling Mr. Orr to focus on strategic partnerships and worldwide
field operations.

"Our wireless LAN and services businesses have demonstrated strong growth
in recent years, necessitating a dedicated executive to manage our
expanding operations, marketing, engineering, and support organizations,"
said Dominic Orr, Aruba's president and CEO. "Hitesh's deep enterprise
experience, and the knowledge he brings about the service provider market,
make him the ideal candidate for this new position. Aruba's virtual branch
networking and network management solutions are targeted at new markets and
channels in which Hitesh has significant expertise. In the international
market, service providers fulfill an important role as network integrators,
and Hitesh's experience will further our ability to nurture that channel.
With Hitesh in place, this appointment positions Aruba for its next phase
of growth."

Mr. Sheth joined Juniper in 2005, and held a number of executive positions
during his tenure at the company. In his most recent role as leader of
Juniper's switching business, Mr. Sheth drove Juniper's entry into the
switching market with the introduction of a comprehensive switching
portfolio that has generated strong revenue momentum. Prior to that
position Mr. Sheth led Juniper's Service Layer Technologies Business Group.
Under his leadership the company achieved the second largest market share
in both network security and secure routing.

Prior to Juniper, Mr. Sheth spent seven years at Cisco where he tripled the
Metro Ethernet business over four years and positioned the company as the
market share leader. He additionally held a number of senior general
management, marketing, and business development positions at Cisco. Prior
to Cisco, Mr. Sheth held executive and engineering management positions at
Liberate Technologies, Oracle Corporation and The Santa Cruz Operation
(SCO). He received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Computer Science from the
University of Texas at Austin.

"Enterprises worldwide are striving to boost efficiency, productivity, and
collaboration while driving down expenses, and these trends align perfectly
with Aruba's secure mobility solutions," said Mr. Sheth. "IT departments
are rightsizing their networks to strike a practical balance between wired
and wireless LANs. Fixed teleworker and hoteling initiatives are rising.
Integrated network security is now considered business-critical, as is the
need to deliver a uniform networking experience to all users, local or
remote. These are all Aruba core competencies and the reasons why I believe
Aruba's prospects for growth are strong. I look forward to working with
Dominic and the Aruba team to execute on this unique vision."

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements relating to our expectations regarding our future growth, the
development of a service provider channel, and the creation of the new
position of Chief Operating Officer. These forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including
(1) business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking
industry; (2) reductions in overall information technology spending; and
(3) our ability to compete in our industry, as well as those risks and
uncertainties included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,"
in Aruba's report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal third quarter ended on April
30, 2009, which is available on Aruba's investor relations website at
www.arubanetworks.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information
available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to
update these forward-looking statements.

About Aruba Networks

People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to
users, wherever they work or roam, using a combination of award-winning
solutions:

-- Adaptive 802.11n Wi-Fi networks optimize themselves to ensure that
users are always within reach of mission-critical information. Rightsizing
expensive wired LANs by replacing them with high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi
reduces both capital and operating expenses;
-- Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing
those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
-- Remote networking solutions for branch offices, fixed telecommuters,
and satellite facilities ensures uninterrupted remote access to
applications;
-- 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. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on
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