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Motorola Flagship RF
Switch Enables Location Services, Enhanced Management and Security
May 22, 2007
Interop 2007
(Booth #1937) -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced several new enhancements to its flagship, enterprise-class RFS7000
RF Switch to support location services, management and security services. The RFS7000 can support Motorola and third-party
vendor services, providing operational value to large businesses requiring a wireless LAN for their enterprise mobility needs.
"As Wi-Fi networks become critical to business operations, we continue to rapidly enable more innovative
ways to utilize the networks with easy to deploy add-on enterprise mobility services," said Sujai Hajela, vice president
and general manager of enterprise WLAN, Motorola Enterprise Mobility business. "With the RFS7000 RF Switch, large businesses
in carpeted offices, healthcare, warehousing and distribution, manufacturing, education, retail and government can deploy
location services to track high-value asset and resources to increase utilization and safety."
The RFS7000
provides locationing capability, enabling real-time tracking of Wi-Fi devices and active tags to help simplify asset tracking.
With this service, businesses have the ability to locate employees for safety or track high-value and mission-critical assets
to increase their utilization. In a healthcare setting, locationing services could be used to track life-saving crash carts,
transfusion pumps, defibrillators, portable X-ray and dialysis machines. Locationing can also be used to find and track inventory
for customers, providing better and faster service.
"We needed a solution for pin-pointing the location of
cars in a parking lot in real-time," said Joseph Owusu, partner, Mieloo & Alexander. "We selected Motorola's
Wi-Fi network infrastructure for its ability to integrate third-party ultra wideband (UWB) sensors that will work both indoors
and outdoors."
Motorola's comprehensive integrated management suite -- comprised of a LAN planner and
mobility services platform -- is a set of tools to help enterprises more easily and centrally plan, deploy, manage and secure
their RF infrastructure and environment. The RF management module simplifies a business' RF environment. In addition,
the ability to locate lost mobile devices and rogue access points greatly enhances the value of the management suite to enterprises.
Motorola's integrated wireless intrusion protection system (Wireless IPS) solution detects and locates rogue
devices, protecting the network against denial-of-service attacks, as well as providing compliance reporting and advanced
forensics. In addition, Motorola's comprehensive sensor-based Wireless IPS monitors, detects, protects and prevents intrusions
to a wireless network. The RFS7000 further enhances the security features to deliver mobile client-based intrusion detection
that can disable difficult to detect rogue mobile clients and devices to help ensure maximum up-time and peak performance
of the network.
The RFS7000 is the industry's first radio frequency (RF) wireless switch that bridges the
gap between Wi-Fi and RFID, future RF technologies and indoor and outdoor wireless networks. The enterprise-class RF Switch
is 802.11n-ready, capable of supporting 256 802.11a/b/g access points, and enables a new switch clustering concept, providing
redundancy and high-performance scalability for up to 3,000 access points.
Motorola's RFS7000 is part of the
end-to-end enterprise WLAN product suite, enabling seamless enterprise mobility indoors. Enterprise WLAN is part of Motorola's
MOTOwi4(TM) portfolio of innovative wireless broadband solutions and services that complement and complete IP networks. Delivering
IP coverage to virtually all spaces both indoors and outdoors, the MOTOwi4 portfolio includes fixed broadband, mesh, broadband
over powerline, WiMAX and enterprise WLAN solutions for private and public networks.
Visit Motorola at Interop
2007 in Las Vegas, from May 22 to 24 at booth #1937.
Motorola is also exhibiting at The Wireless Event in London
on May 23 and 24 at booth #307
Source: PRNewswire
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