Westcon Helps Resellers Provide Solutions for the Mobile Workforce

MobilityPoint Program Provides New Revenue Opportunities for VARs Serving Growing Mobile Worker Segment

TARRYTOWN, NY–(EMWNews – August 18, 2008) – Westcon Group, Inc., the leading

specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility,

announced that its MobilityPoint program now

provides solutions developed specifically for the mobile worker, one of the

fastest growing segments in the mobility market. The solutions include

products from best in class manufacturers such as Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN) and

many others.

By year-end 2011, IDC expects nearly 75%

of the U.S. workforce will be mobile.* As mobile infrastructure for remote

workers becomes more complex with advanced application usage that requires

increased bandwidth and higher performance, Westcon’s MobilityPoint program

is becoming an important go-to resource for resellers competing in this

space.

Chris Metaxas, vice president business development, Westcon Group,

commented: “Westcon recognizes the tremendous opportunity the mobile work

force presents to the reseller community. Our mobility solutions for the

remote worker — which include advanced unified

communications and videoconferencing

capabilities — can drive business benefits such as reduced overhead,

greater flexibility and increased productivity to companies of all sizes.”

“The remote office is now an essential component of IT initiatives focused

on enhancing employee productivity, containing operating costs, and

lowering the corporate carbon footprint,” said Michael Tennefoss, Aruba’s

head of strategic marketing. “To achieve these objectives, mobile workers

need the same experience — and the same degree of network security —

remotely as they would enjoy in the corporate office. Available through

Westcon Group, Aruba’s Remote Access Point technology delivers just such an

experience, and does so without encumbering the IT staff with client

software to manage.”

Aruba’s new Mobile Remote Access Point (RAP) products securely deliver the

enterprise network to mobile users using a combination of Wi-Fi and 3G

cellular broadband connectivity. The Mobile RAP delivers follow-me

connectivity to mobile users everywhere they roam.

“We are often asked to deliver remote worker solutions that can scale

across an entire enterprise,” commented Lesa Fitzpatrick, Strategic Account

Executive of San Diego, CA-based Daycom Systems, Inc. “In these

cases, partnering with a company like Westcon and leveraging its

MobilityPoint program makes a lot of sense since we can scale its

professional services capabilities in addition to its market leading

solutions portfolio.”

Westcon Group’s MobilityPoint program includes products and services from

technology vendors including Aruba, Ascom, Cisco, Meru, Motorola, Nokia,

Nortel and Polycom.

*IDC: “IDC Predicts the Number of Worldwide Mobile Workers to Reach 1

Billion by 2011,” Doc # prUS21037208, January 2008.

MobilityPoint is a licensed trademark of Trapeze Networks, Inc.

About Westcon Group

Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking,

security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors,

including Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Polycom. Through its Westcon, Comstor

and Voda One business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services

to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has

particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video

applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or

VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access,

Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and

wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.