Ben Gibson

Aruba Networks, Inc. designs and manufactures mobility controllers, antennas, and routers. Its products include Aruba access points, which deliver Wi-Fi client access to a variety of indoor and outdoor enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) environments, virtual intranet acces (VIA), provides Wi-Fi access for android, iOS, Mac OS X and windows mobile devices, and Aruba central, a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) subscription that offers remote monitoring and troubleshooting, configuration and firmware management, compliance reporting, and provisioning. The company was founded by Keerti Melkote in February 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

At Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born. Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking - transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Please view Cisco's Corporate Overview Presentation for more information. Quick Facts Founded in 1984 NASDAQ: CSCO Q4 FY'12 Revenue: $11.7 billion Q4 FY'12 Employee Count: 66,639

Meru began with a vision that sooner or later most enterprises would operate in an all-wireless environment: the network edge would need no wires, and a wireless LAN would fully support the enterprise. We wanted users to be able to count on the wireless network to access the content and applications they needed to get their jobs done, and we wanted IT managers to have the power to prepare their networks for the next generation of mobile applications. To bring that vision to life, we created a unique architecture that frees networks from the limitations of client control. With mobility in mind, we custom-built a network that could deliver the seamless coverage and simple scalability that are only possible with a single-channel design, a network that could virtualize RF resources to ensure smooth, predictable performance. Today the Meru Virtualized Wireless LAN is serving thousands of customers around the world