InnerWireless RF and network engineers ensure compatibility of vendors’ wireless devices with InnerWireless’ strategic in-building wireless platform

October 20, 2005 [Richardson, TX] – InnerWireless®, Inc., leading provider of in-building wireless systems, today reported a significant increase in the number of wireless devices and applications that vendors are testing at the company’s Wireless Solutions Lab. Compatibility testing ensures that wireless devices and systems perform as expected when distributed throughout an enterprise via the InnerWireless infrastructure.

Alastair B. Westgarth, senior vice president of product line management for InnerWireless, said that the number of ongoing tests has increased recently from individual evaluations, to frequently a dozen or more applications and vendors simultaneously engaged.

“We have tested dozens of wireless devices and applications in our Wireless Solutions Lab, but we have never before seen such a rush of activity, which we believe illustrates movement toward a holistic wireless strategy, where all elements of the wireless ecosystem work in harmony,” Westgarth said. “We are pleased to be working on a significant number of services and applications with vendors that provide technologies such as WiFi, VoIP, cellular and many others. Our Wireless Solutions Lab exists to help grow, evaluate and validate how wireless applications perform on the distributed antenna system. We document the lab findings – both pro and con – to vendors so that adjustments can be made for the benefit of end-users everywhere.”

The Wireless Solutions Lab at InnerWireless employs Radio Frequency (RF) and network engineers who test wireless applications and devices on the InnerWireless infrastructure.

“Because InnerWireless teams spend every day in some of the world’s largest buildings and hospitals, we are in a unique position to identify how wireless overlays such as intrusion detection and RF management systems can greatly benefit a building’s wireless ecosystem,” Westgarth said. “In our Wireless Solutions Lab we can quickly work with various manufacturers to determine which solutions perform best on our Wireless Utility. Continually enhancing the performance of wireless devices and applications is key to InnerWireless fulfilling its mission of helping every large building benefit from its own 21st century wireless ecosystem.”

Westgarth said that medical device manufacturers are among the most active participants in the Wireless Solutions Lab because hospitals and caregivers increasingly want access to all clinical data without being tethered to a computer terminal. Clinical data and computerized physician order entry (CPOE), paging and nurse-call systems, and patient monitoring applications have all been tested in the Wireless Solutions Lab at InnerWireless.

InnerWireless has deployed its Wireless Utility in several high-profile buildings, including New York City’s 2.8 million-square-foot Time Warner Center; Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago; and the National Institutes of Health’s new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, the largest research center of its kind.

About InnerWireless, Inc.:
InnerWireless® deploys its unified broadband wireless distribution platform in large commercial, healthcare and government buildings to support a full range of wireless services and applications. InnerWireless, which guarantees wireless coverage inside buildings ranging in size up to 10 million square feet, is properly engineered to accommodate wireless systems essential for interpersonal communications (including PCS/cellular, messaging/personal data, enterprise voice, and paging); clinical operations (including wireless infusion therapy/medical administration, enterprise/clinical data, portable patient monitoring, and people and asset tracking); and building operations (including building automation, security and first-responder communications, and push-to-talk radios).

For more information about InnerWireless, see www.InnerWireless.com

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