New Orleans --- February 26, 2007 --- Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), has been selected as Nortel’s provider of location tracking solutions. Ekahau’s turn-key Wi-Fi-based RTLS will enable Nortel to offer its customers in industries such as healthcare, education, retail, hospitality and others, a way to easily and cost-effectively deploy location-based applications while maximizing investment in their wireless local area network (WLAN).
The Ekahau RTLS is a software-based solution that can be seamlessly implemented over standard Wi-Fi networks. The most accurate solution now available, the Ekahau RTLS enables location of assets or people with up to 1 to 3 meter accuracy and can track more than 10,000 objects on a single server.
"Our customers expect solutions that make Business Made Simple a reality," said Aziz Khadbai, general manager, Converged Data Networks at Nortel. "Ekahau’s RTLS solution coupled with Nortel’s WLAN 2300 series will give customers a fast, dependable locating and tracking solution for such industries as healthcare where time and reliability can literally save a life."
The Ekahau RTLS operates over Nortel’s Wi-Fi infrastructure without the need for any additional proprietary hardware. The comprehensive solution relies on server and application software to track Ekahau tags and other Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Key components of the Ekahau RTLS solution include:
• Ekahau Positioning Engine – server software;
• Ekahau Applications – a suite of web-based applications that provide real-time and historical location information, alerts and enables over-the-air configuration of tags;
• Ekahau T-301A Wi-Fi tags – small, tamper-proof two-way tags with up to five years of battery life; and
• Ekahau Client – a software "tag" that enables tracking of personal computers, laptops and other Wi-Fi-enabled handhelds.
"We look forward to working with Nortel to deliver the benefits of real-time location tracking solutions to a wide variety of industries," said Tuomo Rutanen, vice president of business development at Ekahau. "We have a number of excellent installs with Nortel and hope to replicate these successes many times over."
The Ekahau RTLS solution will be available through Nortel offices worldwide on February 28, 2007.
About Ekahau Inc. Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi based RTLS solutions. Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of Wi-Fi based location services and innovative Wi-Fi network planning and optimization tools. Ekahau partners include wireless software developers, leading system integrators, and international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahau is a U.S. based corporation, with offices in Saratoga, CA; Reston, VA; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more information about Ekahau, please visit at www.ekahau.com.
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