Appliance lifecycle services combined with breadth of design, manufacturing, and logistics expertise prove key to new appliance partnership

CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Network Engines, Inc. (NASDAQ: NENG), a leading provider of storage and security server appliance products and services, today announced that Newbury Networks Inc., the Location Systems Company™, named Network Engines as its appliance manufacturing partner to build the industry’s first infrastructure-agnostic wireless location appliance. By providing a dedicated hardware platform optimized to run Newbury’s field-proven location technology, the Newbury Location Appliance™ built by Network Engines equips enterprise organizations with a plug-and-play solution for tracking thousands of devices over wireless LANs.

“Network Engines has established itself as the leading vendor of appliance solutions for software systems’ companies eager to expand into new markets using dedicated hardware platforms,” said Michael Maggio, President and CEO of Newbury Networks. “Partnering with Network Engines to design and build wireless network appliances tuned to run our solutions enables us and our strategic partners to develop a wealth of next-generation mobile enterprise applications including asset tracking, network provisioning, voice communications, and security.”

Network Engines President and CEO Greg Shortell said that Newbury Networks is in the vanguard of software companies that are capitalizing on appliance advantages to deliver their applications as turn-key solutions: “By using our revision-controlled appliance reference platforms, Newbury Networks reduces the cost to deliver its patented location technology to a broader set of the marketplace. By ensuring that every model of appliance is identical, Network Engines enables Newbury and its partners to roll out location tracking applications to hundreds of locations within large organizations coupled with centralized management and network-based software update capabilities.”
 

“We are fortunate to have a strong manufacturing partner conveniently near us in New England,” continued Newbury’s Maggio. “The technical flexibility of Network Engines combined with the company’s high level of support enables us to deliver all of the benefits of dedicated hardware platforms without having to become hardware manufacturers ourselves. By partnering with Network Engines, we avoid the costs of developing our own hardware design, manufacturing and logistics expertise – and the tight control we gain over our hardware platforms enables us to deliver assured application experiences with lower support costs over the entire life of each appliance. That’s a win for us, our partners, and our mutual enterprise customers.”

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Network Engines appliances are designed to ease the deployment, enhance manageability, and increase security of mission critical software applications.

Our heritage of providing technology products and services tailored to supporting the entire lifecycle of our customers’ appliances has made us the appliance partner of choice for software market leaders.

Founded in 1997, Network Engines is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts and trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol “NENG.” For more information about the Company's products and services visit: www.networkengines.com.

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