Amplify.net Announces Strategic Partnership with Wi-LAN Inc.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999-- Adds Service Management Solutions to Wi-LAN's Wireless Networks Wi-LAN takes Equity Position in Amplify-net Amplify.net (http://www.amplifynet.com), a Silicon Valley startup company The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. specializing in broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. enabling solutions, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with the signing of a multi-year reselling agreement with Wi-LAN Inc. (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. :WIN). Wi-LAN, a public company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will include Amplify's iSurf(TM) Family of IP service management solutions as an integral part of its wireless infrastructure equipment offerings for public and private wireless data networks. In addition, the two companies plan to integrate Amplify's bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. and traffic shaping technologies into Wi-LAN's "Hopper Plus" wireless Ethernet bridge transceivers. To fortify for·ti·fy v. for·ti·fied, for·ti·fy·ing, for·ti·fies v.tr. To make strong, as: a. To strengthen and secure (a position) with fortifications. b. To reinforce by adding material. the strategic nature of the partnership, Wi-LAN has taken a minority equity position in Amplify.net, together with two other corporate investors including 3Com Corporation and Kingston Technology Corporation. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Wireless Industry's 1st Quality of Service Solution "An important step in high speed broadband wireless access and the integration of mobile telephony with data access services over high speed wireless IP networks is guaranteed quality of service," said Donald Czubek, president of Gen2Ventures, an established communications consulting company in Saratoga, California. The combination of Wi-LAN's broadband wireless communications equipment and Amplify's subscriber provisioning and traffic shaping technologies represents industry's first "ready to deploy" quality of service solution. Service providers can now offer different classes and rates of service to their customers while guaranteeing the quality of this subscribed service. "This is a tremendous advancement in our ability to service our large network operators, including telecommunications companies," said Dr. Hatim Zaghloul, Wi-LAN chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We know that with Amplify.net's bandwidth management tools we will be offering our network operators an ability to service their customers with a proactive means of distributing bandwidth on a pay-per-use basis." Amplify.net's iSurf(TM) is a family of standalone broadband service management solutions based on the company's iProvidence(TM), a scalable broadband service enabling software platform that supports multiple services over any media. It provides a set of functions that include automatic and dynamic subscriber provisioning, bandwidth management/traffic shaping and usage data warehousing for customer billing and capacity management. "Wireless networks are the new telecommunication paradigm. We are impressed with Wi-LAN's advanced wireless technologies and Mr. Zaghloul's strategic drive towards broadband services over high speed wireless networks," said Pauline Lo Alker, Amplify.net's president & CEO. "Many global telecommunications companies are beginning to provide wireless solutions that not only provide high speed transmission, but also guaranteed the quality of tiered services." About Amplify.net, Inc. Amplify.net develops and markets broadband access enabling solutions that provide multiservice subscriber provisioning, guaranteed class of service, traffic shaping, data warehousing and usage billing and analysis for service providers and network equipment suppliers. Headquartered in Fremont, California, amplify.net, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by several reputable high technology venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . For more information, please visit Amplify.net's Website at http: //www.amplifynet.com/. About Wi-LAN Inc. Wi-LAN Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a leading innovator in the field of high-speed wireless data communications, specializing in high-speed Internet access, LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network extension and wireless local loop. The company's patented W-OFDM technology is at the foundation of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a standard. Wi-LAN's recently launched I.WiLL(TM) 30 Mbps wireless access point is based on the company's patented W-OFDM technology. Wi-LAN's Hopper(TM) and Hopper Plus products have been sold in more than 50 countries on six continents. Wi-LAN is the 1999 recipient of the CATA Cat´a 1. The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol "WIN." Detailed information on Wi-LAN can be found on the Web at http://www.wi-lan.com. Note to Editors: The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein. |
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