Airespace Announces Japanese Subsidiary to Accelerate Growth of Wireless LANs in Japan; Appoints Cisco Veteran Hidesuke Kawata as Representative Director.Business Editors TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004 Airespace, Inc., announced today the opening of its newest office in Tokyo, Japan, Airespace K.K., which will serve as headquarters for sales and support of the Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform throughout the country. Hidesuke Kawata, an industry veteran with extensive management experience at Cisco, Sun, DEC and other leading networking companies, joins Airespace as Representative Director for Japanese operations. Kawata will handle strategic sales and support activities throughout the country in addition to managing customers through local partners, including NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Macnica Networks Company, Kanematsu Electronics Ltd (KEL), and Net One Systems Co., Ltd (see today's accompanying releases entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Airespace, Macnica, and NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform East Bring Wireless Mobility to Tokyo Law School" and "WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network Systems Leader Airespace Partners with Net One Systems to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption in Japan"). "Hidesuke Kawata brings a wealth of technical expertise and sales experience to the Airespace team," said Brett Galloway, president and chief executive officer of Airespace. "As the Japanese market continues to rapidly embrace wireless networks, Kawata extensive track record will reinforce Airespace's position as the leader in enterprise WLANs." Market research group Infonetics Research suggests that worldwide Wireless-LAN hardware revenue topped $658 million in the third quarter of 2003, up 11 percent from the second quarter. Infonetics projected the total will grow to $3.6 billion in 2006, more than doubling last year's $1.6 billion. Asia Pacific accounts for 19 percent of the total WLAN market today, with explosive demand in Japan and South Korea fueling the expansion of WLAN adoption throughout this region. Airespace's presence in Japan will help capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this growing opportunity. "Airespace has set the standard for enterprise WLANs through unique architecture, product innovation and thought leadership," said Hidesuke Kawata. "The Airespace platform is the only WLAN system that combines real-time RF intelligence with best-in-class management tools to make WLANs easy to deploy and cost effective to operate. By coupling these award-winning RF management capabilities with well respected and influential partners, Airespace is ideally positioned to meet Japan's growing demand for secure, business-critical wireless networks." An Industry Leader Hidesuke Kawata has over 20 years of experience selling networking equipment to Japanese enterprises. Prior to joining Airespace, he was country manager and president of Atrica Japan K.K, where he delivered Optical Ethernet Systems to local service providers. Before joining Atrica Japan K.K., Kawata led Cisco's service provider business in Japan, where he grew Cisco's positioning in the IP, ATM and frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. markets. In this position, Kawata managed approximately 200 employees and was responsible for securing close to 1 billion dollars in annual revenue in numerous successive years. Prior to Cisco, Kawata held sales positions at Sun Soft, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Apollo Computer (company) Apollo Computer - A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. , and Digital Equipment Corporation, where he consistently was responsible for several million dollars in annual sales. The Standard in Enterprise WLANs The Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform has been in volume production since April of 2003, helping corporations, universities, hospitals, military facilities, and other enterprises improve operations through wireless mobility. In this timeframe, Airespace has won numerous industry awards over incumbent and startup WLAN vendors, including Network World's "World Class Award," Network Computing's "Editor's Choice Award," and Internet Telephony's "Product of the Year" award. In addition, Airespace has received stellar standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. product reviews in major respected publications, including InfoWorld and eWeek, and was the first WLAN platform to be independently certified to support voice over WLAN See voice over Wi-Fi. (VoWLAN) applications. About Airespace, Inc. Airespace designs and develops intelligent wireless networking See wireless network. platforms that support business-critical applications. The company has set the standard for enterprise Wireless LANs 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 , having earned Network Computing's "Editor's Choice Award" and "Best of the Test 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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