Interop Las Vegas 2007 May 21, 2007 - Extricom, the designer and manufacturer of the award-winning Interference-Free™ Wireless LAN System, today announced another significant milestone in the evolution of WLAN with the unveiling of the EXRP-40, the industry's first four-radio access point. The EXRP-40 UltraThin™ Access Point brings unmatched new WLAN system capabilities to customers, including a quadrupling of capacity, predictable Quality of Service, and the flexibility to fully leverage all channels in both Wi-Fi unlicensed bands of operation.

The EXRP-40 UltraThin Access Point contains four IEEE 802.11 a/b/g radios which, thanks to Extricom's unique channel blanket architecture, can operate on any combination of four non-overlapping channels in any band, in any Wi-Fi mode (a/b/g). This generates compelling advantages, including:

• Unmatched Flexibility: By having multiple channel blankets covering an enterprise's service area, IT has the ability to allocate physical channels and bandwidth to specific applications (e.g. voice or data), user groups (e.g. employees or guests), and device types.
• Multiplied Capacity: With four channels available at every location, local capacity and bandwidth is quadrupled, relative to all other WLAN solutions.
• Dedicated Security Monitoring: The 4-radio AP provides the option of using 3 radios for traffic (e.g. channels 1, 6, and 11 in 2.4 GHz) while the fourth radio is used as a dedicated rogue AP and Wireless Intrusion Detection Sensor. This gives the benefits of a 100% dedicated security sensor array, without the cost of a separate physical overlay of sensors.

"The trend for mobility and multi-application convergence, including voice and locationing, is clear," said Rachna Ahlawat, research director, enterprise networking, for Gartner. "And as enterprises come to rely more and more on WLAN, they will seek robust and reliable connectivity."

Extricom's patented Interference-Free WLAN System represents the next generation of enterprise Wi-Fi, with a fundamental shift in architecture from "cell-planning" to a "channel blanket" topology. The technology eliminates the co-channel interference that plagues traditional WLAN systems, to deliver seamless and zero-latency mobility, robust, "wire-like" client connections, greatly increased capacity, and the ability to design for a guaranteed and predictable level of service for all users. All this, without the iterative and costly RF cell-planning of traditional solutions. The result is a high-performance yet simple solution for powering the enterprise triple play of data, voice (VoWLAN), and video.

"The EXRP-40 is another major technology step for Extricom and our offering," said Gideon Rottem, CEO of Extricom. "Organizations have clearly said they want to move to the next level with wireless LAN in their operations. This means they demand that the wireless infrastructure support all services, everywhere, for everyone, with the same predictability of performance they take for granted in the wired world. With this clear vision in mind, our customers are turning to Extricom to experience our proposition of guaranteed performance, total mobility, simplicity, and triple-play services without trade-off. The EXRP-40 is a pivotal element in this proposition, enabling an unprecedented quad-blanket, multi-layer WLAN, with dedicated security monitoring and intrinsic quality of service for voice and data."