New York City, August 27, 2007 - Extricom, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance, next-generation Wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure solutions, today announced the formation of the Uni-Fi Alliance™, a program that furthers the collaboration of the Wi-Fi ecosystem and maximizes business value through validated product combinations. Together with Extricom, the founding members of the Uni-Fi Alliance are AeroScout, AirTight Networks, Ascom, and Kineto Wireless.

"The multi-application era in WLAN is no longer a promise but a reality," stated David Confalonieri, vice-president of marketing at Extricom. "A smart WLAN infrastructure investment can power many uses - voice, data, video, locationing, and much more. Thanks to the Uni-Fi Alliance, enterprises and solution providers will benefit from validated product combinations that streamline deployment and lower project risks."

Uni-Fi Alliance members span a wide range of devices, PBXs, location services, security appliances, and mobile-to-mobile convergence products. The alliance enables leading technology innovators to verify interoperability between products that contribute to a converged, multi-application WLAN.

"Convergence of services and devices over WLAN offers significant operational and economic opportunity for businesses of all kinds," commented Gabi Daniely, vice-president of marketing and product strategy at AeroScout. "Location-based services and other added-value applications are contributing to the rapid growth of Wi-Fi deployments, so interoperability across a broad range of applications is critical for the emerging generation of Wi-Fi networks."

"While there are established certifications for verifying basic 802.11 component interoperability, there are few industry-standard APIs for linking wireless LANs to upstream applications," observed Joanie Wexler, an independent analyst and editor at Joanie M. Wexler & Associates. "At least until those emerge, it will reduce enterprise integration headaches if WLAN vendors work out interoperability and implementation issues upfront with the suppliers of IP PBXs, location appliances, security appliances, and other servers that generate application traffic over the Wi-Fi network."

Note: There is no connection between Extricom's "Uni-Fi Alliance" and Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited or the "UniFi" semiconductor chip.