Publicly traded Aruba Networks and Cisco Systems sell wireless security systems that are already built into their networking gear.
The attack was simple, said Jon Green, head of product marketing at Aruba Networks, which provided the network security at the conference.
So, this afternoon marks the last truly significant day of the Q1 tech sector earnings period, with reports from Autodesk, Brocade, Aruba Networks, Salesforce.com and Intuit.
That would put the valuation of the company at a little over 4x revenues, which seems reasonable given rival Aruba Networks trades for about 3.4x expected 2012 revenues.
Its competitors, mostly private companies like AirMagnet , Aruba Networks and BlueSocket , are putting pressure on AirDefense, but they've yet to put a dent in its leadership position says Stamp.
The attack was simple, said Jon Green, head of product marketing at Aruba Networks (nasdaq: ARUN - news - people ), which provided the network security at the conference.
YCharts found a couple of these companies among smaller mid-caps for consideration: Buffalo Wild Wings ( BWLD) and Aruba Networks ( ARUN) Both have profits and cash and at least five years of growing revenues.
In the meantime Meraki will help Cisco compete more effectively in areas such as Wi-Fi equipment and cloud-based LAN solutions where a company such as Aruba Networks is considered the gold standard within the sector.
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These hardware upstarts include Airespace, Colubris Networks and Trapeze Networks, as well as Aruba Wireless Networks, which runs most of Dartmouth's campus, and Symbol Technologies, a publicly traded company known for its bar code scanners.
Dell still intends to offer customers Fibre Channel switches from Brocade, which has been a networking equipment partner for more than 10 years, and offer Juniper systems for security applications as well as Aruba equipment for wireless networks.
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