Aruba, Symantec crank up research labs

Network World's John Cox writes:

Aruba Networks has lifted the veil from its 2-year-old advanced wireless research group, Aruba Labs, and added a new research project to study the environmental impact of all-wireless workplaces.

Aruba Labs fosters research in all areas of wireless LANs. It does so by leveraging Aruba engineering and technical resources and working with customers, many of them colleges and universities, on research topics.

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And IDGNS news service writes that Symantec is also letting its engineers loose in a lab setting designed to ensure creative projects don't get short shrift at the big security company:

Security vendor Symantec thinks it can have the best of both worlds, building a nimble start-up atmosphere within a massive, 17,000-employee company.

It's created a new Incubator division to unplug engineers from the company's traditional product development process. Incubator's first project is the Symantec Protection Network (SPN), a hosted software project that the company rolled into the Incubator group when it was formed at the beginning of this year.

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