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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 other trademarks are property of their respective owners.




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