Bluesocket Promotes David Juitt to Chief Technology Officer

BURLINGTON, Mass. - December 22, 2002
Bluesocket Inc., the fast-growing developer of Wireless Local Area Network solutions for securely connecting and managing wireless devices to corporate networks and the Internet, today announced the promotion of David Juitt to Chief Technology Officer.

"Dave?s expertise in security, enterprise software development and systems architecture uniquely qualify him to lad the current and future technology direction of our company," said Eric Janszen, Bluesocket CEO. "His past success as Bluesocket?s Chief Security Architect, proven dedication, creativity and management skills warrants David?s elevation to this important role."

Prior to joining Bluesocket, Juitt was chief information security officer for Redwood Investment Systems of Boston, directing all aspects of security policy and secure product development, including the development of a patent-pending security solution for wireless handheld devices. Before that, he was department head for GTE Laboratories? secure systems research, delivering security consulting throughout the corporation.

Previous to GTE, Juitt ran his own security and technology consulting firm. He spent nine years at Digital Equipment Corporation, starting as a software engineer in 1986 and promoted to principal engineer. Before that, he was on the technical staff at MITRE Corporation.

A published author of numerous technical articles and frequent public speaker, Juitt received his bachelor of computer science degree from Northeastern University, Boston.

About Bluesocket:

Bluesocket, Inc. manufactures high performance solutions enabling the broad deployment and effective management of wireless local area networks (WLANs) for data and voice communications in medium-to-large enterprises worldwide. Bluesocket?s systems are optimized to reduce the total cost of ownership of wireless LANs while maximizing their benefits. Bluesocket provides enterprises including KPMG Consulting, Microsoft and the University of Texas with a simple yet comprehensive system to secure and manage WLANs (e.g. 802.11 family, HiperLAN2, Bluetooth).

Bluesocket's WG-1000 Wireless Gateway gives users of laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and other mobile devices wireless access to corporate networks and the Internet while moving within their campus buildings, other corporate premises and public coverage areas with Secure Mobility?

With offices in Burlington, Mass., Silicon Valley (USA) and London (UK), Bluesocket, Inc. is a privately held, global corporation with funding from St Paul Venture Capital and Osborn Capital; and managed by executives from 3Com, British Telecom, Ericsson, Verizon, Lucent, Intel; other industry leaders.

For additional information: http://www.bluesocket.com

Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logos are trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A. & licensed to 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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