Aruba Networks and Alcatel-Lucent have announced their intent to establish a joint venture focused on developing next-generation wired and wireless solutions for the enterprise.

The joint venture will focus on the design and delivery of hardware and software modules that add secure wireless LAN switching to Alcatel-Lucent's next generation products. These modules, used in combination with Alcatel-Lucent platforms, will address the growing need for pervasive secure mobility in enterprises.

Alcatel-Lucent will market and sell a mobility solution that combines Aruba's secure mobile technology with Alcatel-Lucent's wired network infrastructure and communication/collaboration applications suite.

"Integrating Aruba's user-centric networking technology with Alcatel-Lucent's next-generation of LAN switches, unified messaging and teleconferencing systems, and mobile access switches will usher in a new class of converged mobility infrastructure," said Dominic Orr, Aruba's president and CEO. "The resulting solution will deliver best-of-class connectivity and switching, enhance the productivity of mobile users, and ensure the reliable delivery of business-critical applications within even the largest enterprises."