Bluesocket WGX-4000 Switch Wireless Gateway Wins Editors' Choice Award from Communications News

Bluesocket stands out among wireless switch vendors

BURLINGTON, Mass.-- June 9, 2003
Bluesocket Inc., (www.bluesocket.com) the leading vendor of open-systems Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) management and security solutions, today announced that it has been selected for an "Editors' Choice Award" from Communications News magazine. (www.comnews.com)

This news follows an announcement made by Bluesocket just two days ago that it was tapped by a group of judges including senior executives from Cometa, Microsoft, Cisco, Gateway and Intel Capital as "Best Indoor/Campus Wireless" at TiECon 2003, the world's largest entrepreneurial conference in Santa Clara, CA. Press release: http://www.bluesocket.com/news/prItem.csp?id=128

Editors' Choice: A Coveted Award
Communications News visited with dozens of companies on the exhibit floor at the 2003 Networld+Interop conference and exhibition in Las Vegas at the end of April. Of the many products and services presented to enterprises at the event, only four were selected to receive Editors' Choice Awards, including Bluesocket.

"Receiving the Editors' Choice Award from Communications News is a great honor," said Eric Janszen, CEO of Bluesocket. "In a crowded market of WLAN technologies, Bluesocket continues to stand out as a proven yet innovative solution to control and manage heterogeneous wireless networks," said Janszen.

The WGX-4000 Switch Wireless Gateway
The WGX-4000 Switch Wireless Gateway is a high-performance, WLAN infrastructure platform that aggregates WLAN traffic from existing edge switches, as well as directly connected access points. It conforms into existing wired and wireless network infrastructures, allowing enhanced policy-based deployments. Featuring role-based access control, the unit provides managed and protected Gigabit interfaces and eight 10/100 interfaces on the managed side for traffic aggregation. Providing 800-Mbps throughput for clear traffic, and 400-Mbps throughput for IPSec (3DES) encrypted traffic, the gateway is suited for high-density deployments involving hundreds of users, devices and access points. With dynamic traffic optimization across the WLAN infrastructure, the system implements 802.1q VLAN trunking, 802.1p traffic prioritization, and intelligent VLAN learning within its switch fabric?allowing each user, group or service to be allocated its appropriate amount of the WLAN bandwidth.

About Bluesocket Wireless Gateways
Bluesocket's Wireless Gateways deliver an open-systems approach to secure and manage WiFi networks and provide authentication, subnet mobility, policy and bandwidth management through unparalleled interoperability with legacy infrastructure and WLAN standards. Bluesocket Wireless Gateways have received numerous awards including Editors' Choice Award (Communications News), Best Indoor/Campus Wireless (TiEcon 2003), 'Product of the Year' (Mass Telecomm Council), 'Best Security Product' (Networking Industry Awards) and 'Best Product in Show' (Networld+Interop/Sydney).

About Communications News
Communications News, founded in 1964, serves the decision makers responsible for networking, voice data, and video communications technologies at enterprise and service provider organizations, both in print and online. http://www.comnews.com

About Bluesocket
Bluesocket, Inc. (www.bluesocket.com) is the leading manufacturer of systems to control and secure wireless local area networks (WLANs) in enterprises, institutions and public hotspots in 30+ countries worldwide. Bluesocket provides hundreds of organizations including the National Security Agency, ATOS KPMG Consulting, Harvard Medical School and Best Western Hotels with an elegant open-systems solutions to secure, manage, and profit from their WLANs. With offices in the U.S., U.K., and Asia, Bluesocket, Inc. is a private, global corporation managed by executives from BT, Cisco, GTE, Ericsson, Intel, NetScreen, Nortel; other industry leaders.

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