Bluesocket Showcases Award-Winning Wireless Gateways for Wi-Fi Security and Management at COMNET.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COMNET COMNET - A simulation tool from CACI for analysing wide-area voice or data networks, based on SIMSCRIPT. 2004 Booth 224 WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004 Bluesocket Inc., (www.bluesocket.com) the leading vendor of open-systems Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) management & security solutions will be sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking this week at COMNET Conference & Expo (www.comnetexpo.com), the year's first major event for leaders in the enterprise and government networking industry. Produced by IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) World Expo (www.idgworldexpo.com), COMNET Expo takes place January 27-29, 2004 at the Washington Convention Center The Washington Convention Center has been the name of two convention centers in Washington, D.C. The old Washington Convention Center was located at 909 H Street NW and was in use from 1983 until 2004. , Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, Jan. 27, Bluesocket's CTO Dave Juitt will deliver a presentation on "Wireless and Security: Issues and Solutions," part of a special COMNET session on "Making Wireless Work" featuring wireless industry analysts Tim Scannell (Shoreline Research) and Craig Mathais (Farpoint Group). At Bluesocket's booth (# 224), the company will be showing off its newest (fourth-generation product)--the WG-5000 Wireless Gateway, a core network system for airtight security and policy-based management for Wi-Fi networks, that can support 1,000 simultaneous users and hundreds of Access Points (from multiple vendors). Bluesocket's WG-2100 Wireless Gateway is currently undergoing FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) A series of publications issed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that specifies information security guidelines for federal government departments and agencies. 140-2 Level 2 Conformance Testing in CygnaCom Solutions' Cryptographic Equipment Assessment Laboratory (CEAL CEAL Centro de Estudios y Apoyo Laboral (Spanish: Center for Labor Studies and Support, El Salvador) CEAL Civil Engineering Automated Library CEAL Compagnie d'Exploitation Agricole Ltée CEAL Critical Essays on American Literature ). CEAL is approved by the Nat. Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (US NIST) ) to perform FIPS 140-2 conformance testing. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. Federal Government standard published by NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. that enhancesthe security of information when applied to software & hardware. Weblink to the FIPS 140-2 pre-validation list: http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140PreVal.pdf Bluesocket has hundreds of customers in more than 45 countries worldwide, from the National Security Agency to the Joint Forces, the GAO, US Navy; libraries in California; courthouses in the State of Washington and other enterprises including hospitals, law firms, manufacturers, Toronto's airport, Lehman Brothers and Oppenheimer Funds, Honeywell and Bacardi. Industry analyst Heavy Reading recently named Bluesocket "One of the Top-Four Leaders in the Wi-Fi Industry" (along with Cisco, HP and IBM) and also named Bluesocket: "Top Wi-Fi Startup." Secure Mobility is a trademark of Bluesocket, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names and company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective companies. |
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