Aruba gains but Cisco still leads wireless LAN race

"Since going public in march, wireless LAN supplier Aruba Networks has almost doubled its market share, putting it in a better position to compete directly against the 800-pound gorilla in enterprise networking, Cisco Systems. Cisco, however, also is gaining market share, indicating that enterprise wireless networking could become a two-horse race.

Aruba last week disclosed its latest customer win: Prudential Fox & Roach, the nation's largest single-market real estate agency and the third largest overall, will deploy the No. 2 vendor's wireless LANs in some 80 offices.

"We baselined against Cisco and Aruba, " says Bill Friemann, Prudential Fox & Roach's VP of technology operations, "and Aruba won."