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VIVATO UNVEILS FIRST Wi-Fi SWITCH FOR INDOOR ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT A Single Vivato Panel Provides Wi-Fi Coverage for an Entire Floor with Built-in Security, Management and Deployment Tools DEMO 2003, SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Feb. 16, 2003 - Vivato, a Wi-Fi infrastructure company, today introduced the Vivato 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch enabling enterprises with a new architecture for deploying 802.11b wireless local area networking. A single Vivato indoor Wi-Fi switch provides indoor range of up to 300 meters with standard Wi-Fi clients-illuminating an entire floor in a large office building-even through walls and cubicles. The dramatic capacity and range of a single Vivato Wi-Fi switch creates a better alternative to managing multiple access points by significantly reducing or eliminating the costs of installation, wiring and software currently required to deploy a large-scale Wi-Fi network. "Vivato switches offer a new way to deploy Wi-Fi technology," said Chris Marco, President of TerraWave Solutions, a value added distributor of 2.4 and 5 GHz wireless LAN, bridging, security, management and accessory solutions. "Vivato's Wi-Fi switch can simplify wireless deployments by providing a solution that addresses scalability, management and security issues." Vivato's Wi-Fi switch is a flat panel unit, which resembles a plasma television screen, operates in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and delivers three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi. Designed to be wall-mounted, the panel employs Vivato's patent-pending PacketSteering technology to dynamically shape very narrow beams, about nine degrees each, which transmit and receive Wi-Fi on a packet-by-packet basis to maximize capacity and minimize interference. A single Vivato 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch can support about 150 enterprise users-tracking active users as they move about the office within its 100-degree field of view. Packaged into the 1.20m x 0.63m x 7.6cm (WxHxD) panel are best-of-breed enterprise security, management and deployment tools. The Indoor Wi-Fi switch has three layers of advanced security, including 802.1x authentication with per station keys, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Virtual LANs (VLANs). At the Wi-Fi level, Vivato's switches support the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data privacy and have the hardware required for supporting the future IEEE 802.11i standard. "We believe the invention of the Wi-Fi switch will have a profound impact on enterprise networking similar to the transition from shared Ethernet to switched Ethernet," said Vivato CEO and Chairman Ken Biba. "Vivato is excited to bring our products to market and begin to deliver on that promise. We are the first to provide our channel partners with a Wi-Fi networking system that scales to enterprise dimensions." The list price for the Vivato 2.4 GHz Indoor Wi-Fi Switch is $8,995 and it will be available through Vivato Value Added Resellers in May 2003. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pasadena Networks, LLC. http://pasadena.net 626-676-4761
