Positioned as Leader for Fifteenth¹ Year Running and Furthest in Vision of All Vendors

HONG KONG SAR -�Media OutReach�- 4 December 2020 -�Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced that for the fifteenth year, HPE (Aruba) has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s latest "Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure", and is positioned furthest to the right in Vision, as compared to all vendors. In addition, in the companion "Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure" report, Aruba has received the highest score in all six use cases -- the second time it has scored highest across all use cases.

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Read complimentary copies of the Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities reports here:

2020 Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure

2020 Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure

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Read Aruba's blog about this year's reports here:

Aruba and the Gartner Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant

Gartner evaluates vendors included in the Magic Quadrant based on two primary criteria: completeness of vision and ability to execute. HPE (Aruba) was positioned the furthest in vision of all vendors in the quadrant, which Aruba believes recognizes the company's continued innovation and ability to anticipate and address customer challenges.

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In addition, in the companion piece to the Magic Quadrant, the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, Gartner evaluated vendor effectiveness in addressing an organization's needs in six key use cases: Unified Wired and WLAN Access, WLAN-only Refresh/New Build, Wired-only Refresh/New build, Remote Branch Office with Corporate HQ, Performance Stringent Applications, and Hands-off NetOps. Aruba received the highest scores in all six of these use cases.

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"Our 'Customer First, Customer Last' culture drives our commitment and focus across the entire Aruba organization from building our products and delivering our services, to helping our customers and partners in the field and supporting them on the back-end," Kenneth Ma, director and general manager of Hong Kong and Macau at Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company. "The continued recognition by Gartner of HPE (Aruba) is gratifying and we couldn't be prouder of our clear market leadership via Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform). The networking landscape may have changed over the past 15 years with different vendors coming and going but Aruba's commitment to customer-driven innovation has kept us on the forefront at every step, becoming the Edge authority that the market turns to time and again. We are grateful to our customers and partners for their continued trust."

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In addition to the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure and Critical Capabilities reports, HPE (Aruba) has also been recognized by Gartner for other aspects of its industry-leading portfolio. In September 2020, just two years after launching its SD-Branch solution, Aruba was recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, and Silver Peak, recently acquired by HPE (Aruba) was positioned as a Leader for the third consecutive year. HPE (Aruba) was also positioned as a Visionary in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center and Cloud Networking.

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Additional Resources

• Report: 2020 Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
• Report: 2020 Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
• Report: 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure
• Blog: Aruba and the Gartner Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, Bill Menezes, Tim Zimmerman, Christian Canales, Mike Toussaint, 5 November 2020

Gartner Critical Capabilities for Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Christian Canales, Tim Zimmerman, Bill Menezes, Mike Toussaint, 11 November 2020

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¹ Aruba's 15 years of placement includes HPE (Aruba) in the Magic Quadrant for Wired & Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2015-2020 (6 years), Aruba Networks in the same Magic Quadrant from 2012-2014 (3 years) and in the Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure from 2006-2011 (6 years).

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About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).

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To learn more, visit Aruba at�http://www.arubanetworks.com. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on�Twitter�and�Facebook, and for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba products, visit Airheads Social at http://community.arubanetworks.com/. �

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