Airespace's Breakthrough Wireless Platform Deployed at Duke Medical Center and Berkeley Engineering; Airespace Solution Removes Barriers to Wireless LAN Implementations.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003

Airespace, Inc. announced today that Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) and the University of California at Berkeley's school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are deploying the Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform in live network environments. With the Airespace solution, these institutions have been able to enhance their constituents' day-to-day experiences by enabling anytime, anywhere access to key information and applications.

Duke University Medical Center is using the Airespace solution to enhance patient care. Traditionally, patient information is updated manually or through centrally-located terminals, which adds time and cost to the healthcare process. With the Airespace platform, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers can use wireless-enabled PDAs to attain secure, real-time access to patient information. This reduces the administrative time it takes to retrieve this information, while also ensuring that accurate data is readily available.

"Duke University Medical Center feels that wireless technology plays a key role in the advancement of patient care," said Nahn Vo, director of enterprise communications at Duke University Health System. "We are working with Airespace to cost-effectively introduce a broad new range of WLAN applications into our hospital."

The University of California at Berkeley has been working with WLAN technology for several years as a key enabler for student access to information. With the introduction of new applications, the EECS school wanted to migrate from 802.11b to a wireless solution with higher bandwidth (802.11a today, and 802.11g in the future). Airespace offered a seamless migration strategy for this to occur, with the benefit of centralized policy management for maximum network control. In addition, the Airespace solution provides EECS with rapid traffic forwarding capabilities and advanced quality of service (QoS) policies, which helps the school support various user requirements simultaneously.

"Having had extensive experience with our 802.11b deployment, we recognized and wanted to get in front of the many challenges associated with our 802.11a program," said Fred Archibald, Network Manager for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. "We are pioneering a new information and interaction model among faculty, students and administrators at our engineering school and are working with Airespace to bring it to reality."

Both Duke University Medical Center and Berkeley's school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science built their wireless networks with Airespace 4000 Wireless Switches, Airespace 1200 Access Points, and Airspace Control System software. (For more information on these products, see the accompanying release, entitled "Airespace Introduces Breakthrough Networking Solution for Building the Wireless Enterprise.") By providing a simple, seamless, and secure infrastructure for wireless networking, the Airespace solution is proving itself to be the ideal platform for building wireless enterprises.

"The Airespace platform is the first product exclusively designed and built for the wireless enterprise," said Brett Galloway, president and CEO of Airespace. "Working with Duke and Berkeley, Airespace has delivered the powerful business benefits of WLANs to two of the most sophisticated users of technology in their respective industries."

About Airespace, Inc.

Airespace designs and develops wireless networking platforms that enable business critical-applications. By making wireless technology simple, seamless, and secure, Airespace is helping to make wireless Enterprises a reality.

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