Aruba Networks joins lifetime warranty club

Aruba Networks announced this morning that it will now offer lifetime warranties on all its indoor wireless LAN access points. This will provide some nice investment protection to customers. It’s pretty clear to me that the lifetime warranty approach that HP ProCurve has adopted is going to rub off on other other networking vendors who are vying for share of the market that Cisco hasn’t locked up. It’s also possible that Aruba is recognizing that ProCurve is now a serious competitor for WLAN business in the wake of its acquisition of Colubris last year. ProCurve extended its lifetime warranty approach to Colubris’ entire product line after it closed the deal for the company.