Bluesocket Selects Service Latitudes

Burlington, Mass. and Dover, NH, January 8, 2004 ---
Bluesocket, Inc., the leading vendor of open-systems Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) management and security solutions, today announced that it has selected Service Latitudes, LLC to establish a program to renew and recapture maintenance and service agreements on behalf of its partners and value-added resellers.

Bluesocket's award-winning Wireless Gateways are deployed in more than 40 countries worldwide. Hundreds of educational, corporate and government institutions, such as the London School of Economics, CareGroup Healthcare, the Greater Toronto Airport Authority and the US Navy, have all "Bluesocketed" their WiFi wireless local area networks (WLANs) in order to make them more secure and better managed.

"We are pleased to be working with a world-class organization such as Bluesocket and its ever-expanding customer and partner base," said Dana Lariviere, CEO of Service Latitudes. "Service Latitudes 'Pay for Results' program has streamlined the service renewal process and proven to be a significant value-add for Bluesocket?s customer and partner community."

"Service Latitudes' program has enabled Bluesocket to focus on addressing our core customer needs while providing additional services to our channel of hundreds of VARs and systems integrators." said Bob Darabant, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Bluesocket. "Service Latitudes makes our sales process more efficient, giving our salesforce and our channel partners more time to close business and provide service to end-users. Service Latitudes adds great value to our VARs and helps streamline customer service and support."

About Service Latitudes

Service Latitudes, LLC (www.servicelatitudes.com) is a provider of outsourced service sales and consulting services focused on the technology marketplace. Service Latitudes is a privately held company whose executive team has held senior management positions in major networking hardware and software firms both domestically and internationally.

About Bluesocket

Bluesocket, Inc. (www.bluesocket.com) is a leading manufacturer of systems to control and secure wireless local area networks (WLANs) in enterprises, institutions and public hotspots in more than 40 countries worldwide. Bluesocket provides hundreds of organizations including the National Security Agency, Harvard Medical School and Best Western Hotels with an elegant open-systems solutions to secure, manage, and profit from their WLANs. 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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