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Aruba Networks & Foundry Networks collaborate to supply the Federal Market
September 2008 by Marc Jacob
Aruba Networks, Inc. and Foundry Networks®, Inc. announced a co-marketing relationship between the companies’ wired and wireless LAN products for Federal customers. Common Criteria certification, FIPS 140-2 validation, and compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) Directives 8100.2 and 8500.2 make Aruba’s adaptive wireless LANs both unique in the market and ideally suited for Federal requirements. Foundry’s high-performance Ethernet products for edge-to-core data, voice and video applications feature built-in security protection and are tailored to Federal mission-critical deployments regardless of environment or traffic. When used together, Aruba’s wireless and Foundry’s wired products deliver a synergistic, best-of-breed solution with better performance, quality and capabilities than closed single-vendor offerings.
Foundry’s comprehensive set of intelligent networking solutions offer a secure, resilient, scalable foundation for a new generation of advanced applications in the Federal market. Foundry provides an extensive group of innovative features and technology to effectively create a toolbox for network managers to maximize the performance, manageability, security and scalability of their network infrastructure. By enabling business continuity to mission- and business-critical applications and services on the network, Foundry’s solution offers Federal organizations an increased return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with their edge-to-core networking infrastructure investments.
Aruba’s secure mobility solutions reliably deliver network access to roaming users, and are widely used in Federal applications because of their compliance with rigorous government security standards. Common Criteria EAL-2 certificate certification is a mandatory prerequisite for many high-security applications, and is often required in tandem with validation to Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 for cryptographic security and compliance with Department of Defense Directive 8100.2 and 8500.2 security policies for wireless technologies and layered protection, respectively. Aruba’s compliance with these requirements enables the company to address a wide range of Federal applications.
