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Airespace ''Dominates'' Field to Earn SearchNetworking.com's 1st Annual ''Product of the Year'' Award for Enterprise Wireless Applications and Systems.


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Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform Given "Gold"

Award; Receives Highest Score of All Products Reviewed

Airespace, Inc., announced today that TechTarget's SearchNetworking.com has named the Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform "Product of the Year" in the "Enterprise Wireless Applications and Systems" category. According to according to
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 the editors at SearchNetworking.com, Airespace's Wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area  (WLAN See wireless LAN.

WLAN - wireless local area network
) system "dominated" the awards, receiving the highest score of any product reviewed in all categories, earning a coveted cov·et  
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 gold ranking. Products were judged by a panel of industry experts including the editors of TechTarget's SearchNetworking.com, a select group of users, and independent industry analysts. The Airespace platform received perfect scores for performance and ease-of-use, while impressing the judges in other key areas of evaluation criteria, including innovation, ease-of-integration, functionality, and value.

According to the editors, with respect to performance, the Airespace WLAN system impressed the judges with its ability to support real-time applications, such as voice. As the judges noted, a recent report by the Tolly Group verified that the Airespace platform leverages QoS to ensure consistent performance under load; scales to meet the real-world capabilities of leading Voice over WLAN See voice over Wi-Fi.  (VoWLAN) gateways; provides seamless roaming between access points; and handles traffic with extremely low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as  (e.g., less than 31 milliseconds across subnets).

Regarding the system's ease-of-use, the judges commended Airespace for its "Intelligent RF" capabilities, whereby real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided.

Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data.
 is gathered concerning channel reliability In telecommunication, channel reliability (ChR) is the percentage of time a channel was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability.

Channel reliability is given by

, throughput, interference, user location, applications in use, predicted user location, capacity, and possible network intrusion to compute the best possible RF topology on the wireless network. It graphically depicts trends, statistics, equipment configuration and status, coverage areas, and other metrics necessary for WLAN management. In addition, the system boasts extensive location-tracking capabilities, enabling better wireless security, asset tracking, and support for Emergency 911 (E911).

"SearchNetworking.com has earned an excellent reputation for providing unbiased networking news and analysis," said Alan Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
, vice president of marketing at Airespace. "Their selection of Airespace as a gold winner is an enormous validation of our platform and Airespace's continued leadership in the field of wireless networking See wireless network. ."

This is the sixth top industry honor received by Airespace since shipping its wireless platform in April of 2003. Most recently, Airespace was honored with product of the year awards by MobileTrax, a professional services firm that focuses on the mobile computing and wireless data market, and Internet Telephony, a premier publication focused on the burgeoning IP telephony industry. Previously, Airespace beat out a crowded field of WLAN players in two hands-on product evaluations to win Network Computing's "Editor's Choice Award" and Network World's "World Class Award." Prior to that, Airespace was the only wireless switch nominated by InfoWorld readers as one of the "Best Wireless Products" of 2003.

About Airespace, Inc.

Airespace designs and develops intelligent wireless networking platforms that support business-critical applications. The company has set the standard for enterprise Wireless LANs, having earned Network Computing's "Editor's Choice Award," Network World's "World Class Award," Internet Telephony's "Product of the Year," and nomination as one of the "Best Wireless Products of 2003" in InfoWorld's Reader's Choice Awards. With dynamic RF management, air-tight security, seamless mobility, and support for real-time applications such as voice, Airespace helps enterprises implement secure Wireless LAN networks worldwide.

For more information on Airespace and its products, visit www.airespace.com or call 408-635-2000.
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