Bluesocket Unveils New WLAN Product Portfolio

BURLINGTON, Mass. - February 26, 2007 - Bluesocket, Inc., (www.bluesocket.com) the leader in open wireless network, security and management solutions, today announced a new series of leading-edge BlueSecure Controllers that incorporate Bluesocket's Secure Mobility® technology for wireless data and voice applications. The new product portfolio demonstrates the company's commitment to evolving its award-winning BlueSecure Controllers to encompass current and upcoming voice and mobile technologies.

Leveraging Secure Mobility technology, the new BlueSecure Controllers give users of laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices wireless access to corporate networks and the Internet while roaming. This capability is valuable to Bluesocket customers across all of its vertical markets, including healthcare, education, hospitality and public access. Specific to the healthcare sector, the new Controllers will especially benefit those hospitals, clinics and healthcare organizations that rely on wireless networks to provide on-the-spot access to vital information, as well as public wireless access to visitors.

"Hospitality is a top priority at our organization. We offer wireless access to our patients and visitors so they feel more at home and have the convenience of accessing the Internet whenever they need to - be it for work-related activities or personal e-mail," said Scott Checkoway, information technology network engineer at Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc (NGHS). "Since deploying Bluesocket's BlueSecure Controllers, we have not experienced any user authentication issues. In fact, during the first month of enabling public wireless Internet at NGHS, we had more than 800 people successfully and seamlessly authenticate through the Controllers."

In addition to providing simple, centralized WLAN deployments - as well as intrusion detection, worm protection and protection from unauthorized users - the new BlueSecure Controllers will provide:

• Flexible policy enforcement for role, time, VLAN, services and bandwidth/QoS activities
• Universal WLAN authentication for diverse users and devices
• VoIP-QoS and bandwidth management to prevent network contention issues

"This next evolution of BlueSecure Controllers continues to incorporate the reliable, high-performance wireless security that thousands of institutions, enterprises and public access providers have come to expect from Bluesocket," said Mads Lillelund, CEO at Bluesocket. "Additionally, the Controllers support wireless devices and APs from all major vendors, while offering support for current and future 802.11 versions. This means customers won't be locked into a specific technology and won't have interoperability issues when updating their future WLAN infrastructures - a significant capability they can't find anywhere else."

The BSC-7200, generally available in April, will support WLAN networks with up to 8,000 users. The BSC-600 and BSC-1200, also available in April, as well as the BSC-5200, available in March, will support smaller networks, ranging from eight to 150 APs, offering the same high-performance to small and medium-sized businesses.

To hear more about Bluesocket's new Controller series, stop by booth #1174 at the HIMSS 2007 conference, call 866-633-3358 or e-mail sales@bluesocket.com.

About Bluesocket

Founded in 1999, Bluesocket is a leader in open, standards based enterprise mobility solutions. Bluesocket is the first company to deliver an enterprise communication solution that unifies secure wireless LAN, SIP-based enterprise Voice over IP and fixed mobile convergence. Its complete wireless network and voice solution portfolio bring trust and simplicity to increasingly complex wireless networks maximizing customer ROI and increasing their competitive edge. For more information, please visit http://www.bluesocket.com.

Bluesocket, the Bluesocket logo and BlueSecure are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bluesocket, Inc. All other trademarks, trade names and company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective companies.

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