Technology integration to deliver first third party application on Newbury’s WLAN Location Appliance

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Newbury Networks Inc., the Location Systems Company™, today announced that it is collaborating with PanGo Networks, Inc. to deliver the first third-party location application on its Newbury Location Appliance™. The PanOS® Location Management Platform and PanGo Locator® application can now be powered by Newbury’s Location Appliance, enabling users of asset tracking solutions to take advantage of breakthrough levels of accuracy and precision for locating any 802.11-based device across a wide range of WLAN infrastructures including 3Com, Aruba, Cisco, Nortel, Symbol and Trapeze.

Central to this integration, Newbury is using PanGo’s open Provider Interface to deliver location information to the PanOS Platform and PanGo Locator running in any of these diverse wireless network environments. This third party integration support is core to Newbury’s strategy for exposing its patented Wi-Fi location technology to drive business-critical applications such as PanGo’s as well as other custom solutions. A new class of mobile enterprise applications fueled by location continues to gain momentum in vertical markets such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and government.

“Today’s enterprise wireless LAN adoption is wide-ranging and rapidly growing. We believe the factors that fuel wireless adoption center around a culture of mobility and rich location services,” said Michael Maggio, president and CEO, Newbury Networks. “This work with PanGo supports our strategy of exposing Newbury’s proven location technology to enable scalable mobile applications across heterogeneous enterprise wireless LAN infrastructures.”

“The demand for precise and accurate location data continues to increase across our customer base and the market as a whole” said Mike McGuinness, president and CEO, PanGo. “Newbury’s commitment to supporting location-enabled applications meets a broad set of needs in the wireless LAN market and makes the Newbury Location Appliance a natural fit with our open platform approach.”

“Location-aware applications are one of the few types of applications that truly leverage the mobile nature of wireless LANs," said Abner Germanow, Director of Enterprise Networking, IDC. “The Newbury PanGo relationship provides the catalyst for what may ultimately drive adoption of additional business-critical location applications in the wireless enterprise.”

About PanGo Networks

PanGo is the leading provider of a location-aware platform and applications designed for enterprise scale deployment. Its integrated, Wi-Fi-based location management solution allows organizations to transform standards-based wireless networks into a platform for intelligent applications that improve important business processes. With its flagship PanOS Platform^® and asset tracking applications, PanGo offers the industry’s first complete solution for real-time asset visibility and context-aware information delivery. Specializing in a range of markets including healthcare, manufacturing, retail and government, PanGo delivers reliable and accurate information about the location of connected devices, people and assets. For more information, visit www.pangonetworks.com.

About Newbury Networks

Newbury Networks, The Location Systems Company™, enables enterprises to locate, manage and secure applications running over wireless LANs (WLANs). Newbury's solutions provide unprecedented security, management and real-time asset tracking through its patented location-based technology. Newbury's location-based solutions have won numerous awards and accolades including Network World's Best of Tests™ and Datamation's Product of the Year Award. Newbury Networks was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston. For more information visit www.newburynetworks.com.