AirDefense Offers Location Tracking
Partnership with Market-Leader Ekahau Provides
Best-in-Class Accuracy
Atlanta - November 15, 2004 -AirDefense, the leader
in anywhere, anytime wireless LAN (WLAN) security and monitoring,
today announced the integration of Ekahau's advanced location
tracking capabilities into AirDefense Enterprise.
Ekahau is recognized as the leading provider of software-based
wireless location tracking. Through this partnership, AirDefense
can offer Ekahau's patented Ekahau Positioning Engine
solution as a part of AirDefense Enterprise. The combined solution
will enable enterprises to efficiently and accurately pinpoint
the real-time location of rogue end user devices and access
points from a centralized location.
The AirDefense-Ekahau partnership is part of AirDefense's extensible
platform, which allows customers to invest in the AirDefense
system and plug additional value into the system through the
purchase of additional capabilities such as location tracking.
"In doing our research it became apparent to us that Ekahau
has developed one of the best positioning engine technologies
on the market," said Scott Hrastar, chief technology officer
of AirDefense. "Ekahau has completed fundamental research
in location tracking and has a good history in the space. With
the partnership we know we are offering our customers superior
tracking performance, accuracy and scalability."
Unlike other tools that rely solely on inaccurate theoretical
or predictive models, Ekahau creates visualizations of RF coverage,
or RF fingerprinting, which is based on actual RF performance
data. The end result is a more accurate finding of rogue access
points, stations or other devices.
"By partnering with AirDefense, customers with security
concerns will now be able to take advantage of our location
tracking technology, a market not previously addressed by Ekahau,"
said Tuomo Rutanen, vice president business development for
Ekahau. "Bringing together the two companies is a positive
step in providing customers the best of breed technologies for
both their security and monitoring needs."
The AirDefense security and monitoring system is based on patent-pending
technology that incorporates distributed sensors with a server
appliance. The remote sensors monitor all wireless LAN activities
24x7 and communicate with the appliance, which correlates and
analyzes the data to provide scalable, centralized management
of all WLAN deployments by providing rogue detection, policy
enforcement, intrusion protection and health monitoring of the
wireless LAN. The AirDefense solution has been deployed in more
than 300 distributed enterprise networks worldwide.
About Ekahau, Inc.
Ekahau, Inc. is the industry leader in location-enabling
Wi-Fi networks. Ekahau's customers include leading corporations
around the world that are realizing the benefits of WiFi-based
location services and innovative network planning and optimization
tools. Ekahau partners include wireless software developers,
leading system integrators, and international OEM partners,
who develop and market next generation location-based applications.
For more information about Ekahau, please visit www.ekahau.com.
About AirDefense, Inc.
AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless
security and monitoring. The company's products provide the
most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy
enforcement and intrusion protection both inside and outside
an organization's four walls. AirDefense's enterprise-class
products scale to support everything from single offices to
organizations with hundreds of locations. Founded in 2001, AirDefense
is based in Alpharetta, GA and services hundreds of government
agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please
visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.
Media Contacts:
Heidi Litner
AirDefense, Inc.
770.663.8115 x 110
hlitner@airdefense.net
Ekahau:
Tuomo Rutanen
Ekahau, Inc.
703.481.9861
Tuomo.Rutanen@Ekahau.com
AirDefense is a registered trademark of AirDefense, Inc. All
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