City of Aurora Adds Wi-Fi to Deliver Vital Public Safety Data and Services More Efficiently.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2003 Anyware Network Solutions Combines NetMotion Mobility and Wavelink 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 Management Solution to Expand Mobile Police and Fire Unit Connectivity The City of Aurora, one of Colorado's largest municipalities, today announced that it is expanding its wireless local area network (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) using solutions from NetMotion(R) Wireless, a market leader in mobility management software, and Wavelink Corporation, a leading provider of mobile infrastructure management software for the enterprise. The joint solution, implemented by Anyware Network Solutions, will expand the wireless network for the City's entire public safety force, unify the City's wireless networks and provide a seamless, secure, easy to manage and scalable WLAN for mobile police and fire units. The City of Aurora selected NetMotion Mobility(TM) and Wavelink's WLAN management technology to better arm public safety officials with up-to-date information and ensure that crucial, confidential data such as mug shots, DMV DMV abbr. Department of Motor Vehicles and criminal records could be transferred quickly and securely between Aurora's 300 mobile police and fire units and the municipality's central servers. The City of Aurora, seeking the best solutions to utilize the combination of Wi-Fi and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. networks, worked with Anyware Network Solutions to identify wireless technologies that fit the City's wireless network environment. The City selected NetMotion Mobility for its security and connection management features and Wavelink's Mobile Manager(TM) and Avalanche(TM) software to manage and control the wireless network and mobile devices from a single, central console. "Pulling up a mug shot used to take up to 50 minutes -- now it takes only 20 seconds," said Mike Bedwell, manager, public safety systems for the City of Aurora. "The combination of Wavelink and NetMotion's technology enables our public safety officers to better access information through their mobile devices and spend less effort transferring data to and from central servers. The less time our officers spend searching for the information they need, the more quickly they can get back to the neighborhoods and communities they serve." Wavelink and NetMotion Wireless provide a solution which enhances the capabilities of the City's WLAN so public safety officers can maintain a secure and constant connection to information while patrolling Aurora's 145 square mile area as well as easily update information to and from the City's central servers. With further rollouts planned, Wavelink and NetMotion Wireless' management solutions also allow for easy and cost effective additions of new wireless infrastructure in conjunction with network growth. "Aurora has more than 300 mobile police and fire units -- each of which have their own set of mobile devices and specific data needs," said Todd Leven, wireless network consultant for Anyware Network Solutions. "The combined Wavelink and NetMotion Wireless solution will allow public safety officers to roam between hotspots and through coverage gaps across the city while maintaining a secure and seamless connection to applications and information throughout the entire wireless network." Wavelink's Mobile Manager enables network administrators to accelerate WLAN configuration and deployment, enhance WLAN security and improve network health and performance by centralizing cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. the management of WLANs and mobile devices. Wavelink offers the most widely-deployed and scalable multi-vendor, multi-platform wireless management solution. Wavelink's ease-of-use, interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and scalability allow customers to deploy the best products for their infrastructure, enabling a feature-rich and flexible environment. Through its server software and support for a wide range of client platforms, NetMotion Mobility enables any enterprise network application to work over any IP-based wireless network securely and reliably without modification or customization. Mobility also provides Application Session Persistence, which eliminates lost data and application crashes, even when mobile workers roam from network to network, move outside of network coverage, or suspend and resume To stop an operation and restart where you left off. In portable computers, the hard disk is turned off, and the CPU is made to idle at its slowest speed. All open applications are retained in memory. their devices. Additionally, NetMotion Mobility ensures data security through its Roamable VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , which integrates single-sign-on authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. and advanced encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. . About NetMotion Wireless Inc. NetMotion Wireless is the developer of Mobility, an easily deployed, software-only mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings solution that provides continuous, secure connectivity for enterprise wireless networking See wireless network. . Mobility enables any enterprise application to run on any wireless network without modification or customization and ensures data is secure, regardless of the networks or devices mobile workers use. NetMotion Mobility enables mobile workers to operate as effectively on wireless networks as they do on wired ones -- with secure, uninterrupted access to the same enterprise data and applications used on their desktop PCs. In 2003, NetMotion Wireless was named wireless networking Technology of the Year by InfoWorld magazine and one of the "Fiercest 15" wireless startups by FierceWireless. The company also has been named Investors' Choice/Most Likely to Succeed at the Technologic Partners' Wireless Ventures conference and honored as the Business Product of the Year by the Washington Software Alliance Washington Software Alliance (WSA) is a prominent technology business association, with approximately 1,000 member companies in Washington state, USA. WSA hosts educational and training events, CEO roundtables, executive seminars, and special interest groups. . For more information about NetMotion Wireless or its products, visit www.netmotionwireless.com, call (206) 691-5500, or write 701 N. 34th Street, Suite 250, Seattle, Wash. 98103. About Wavelink Founded in 1992, Wavelink Corporation is the industry's leading provider of software solutions for the management of wireless LAN networks and mobile devices and the development of mission-critical wireless applications. Over 5,000 customers in nearly every industry use Wavelink's wireless management and application development software to solve the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling wireless LAN networks. Wavelink Mobile Manager(TM) and Wavelink Avalanche(TM) offer the most widely-used, multi-vendor solutions which solve wireless network and device management challenges by offering complete visibility, effective network management and control over wireless LAN access points and mobile devices. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.wavelink.com or call 425.823.0111. About Anyware Network Solutions Anyware Network Solutions (ANS (ANS Communications, Inc, Purchase, NY) An ISP, Internet backbone and provider of private data network services, founded in 1990 as Advanced Network & Services, Inc., by IBM, MCI and Merit (consortium of Michigan universities). ) is a value added reseller See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). based in Denver, Colorado, focused solely on broadband wireless See wireless broadband. data networking solutions. ANS partners with leading broadband wireless networking manufacturers and service providers and offers customers wireless network design assistance, knowledgeable sales & technical support, and wireless data network implementation services in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain states Rocky Mountain States A region of the western United States including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. . The ANS web site can be reached at http://www.anyware-ns.com. |
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