Peñalolén, Chile, April 24, 2008 - Extricom, a leading provider of high-performance enterprise class wireless solutions for converged voice (VoWLAN), data, video, and location-based services, and I-Systems Corporation, a major Chilean partner of Extricom, today announced that they had completed the implementation of a pervasive Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) for the Municipality of Peñalolén's City Hall. The wireless system is a strategic part of the "e-Government" initiative by Peñalolén.

The e-Government movement uses electronic commerce technology to enhance governmental operations and expand citizen access to governmental services and resources. Chile is the leading exponent of e-Government in the Central and Latin America region, and in a recent UN study on global "E-participation," was ranked fourth in the world behind only the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

As part of its "Comuna Digital" (Digital Community) initiative, the Municipality of Peñalolén, located in the Santiago Metropolitan Area, is bringing the benefits of e-Government to the city's 216,000 residents. Comuna Digital will leverage a wide range of applications and technologies to enhance the citizen's "user experience" with public services, including online government services, education projects, free Internet access to anyone in City Hall, voice over WLAN communication for local officials, and wireless video streaming so that anyone with a web browser can participate in public meetings.

"Providing pervasive Wi-Fi access throughout our facilities is absolutely essential for Comuna Digital" said Cristian López Vergara, director of IT for the Municipality. "To achieve our goals, we have to deliver enterprise triple-play services, and that requires a network that can guarantee coverage and provide optimal Quality of Service without compromising on performance. The only solution that met our requirements was an Extricom WLAN, which gives us the consistent, high-speed connections and architectural flexibility we need."

Implementation of the Extricom WLAN puts the Municipality of Peñalolén at the forefront of Chile's effort to increase citizen access. It also puts it in the top ranks of enterprises that are using cutting-edge technology to eliminate complexity from operations. "For most customers, I think the most surprising aspect of the Extricom WLAN is its simplicity," commented Jorge Oportot, wireless business manager at I-Systems. "Other enterprise WLAN solutions require a time-consuming planning process, significant technical expertise, and considerable ongoing maintenance. This is just not the case with Extricom. We were able to get the system up and running, and complete the training of the Municipality's System Administrators in two days. The system has been providing transparent, high-bandwidth connectivity ever since. Our deployment at Peñalolén has been a real eye-opener, and I consider it an implementation model that can be widely replicated throughout Chile."

"A new era of wireless deployments has started and demand for this is increasing," confirmed Dan Kirtchuk, executive vice-president of Extricom. "The Municipality of Peñalolén is a model for the future, in which WLAN is deployed to support high-demand strategic objectives, and to provide wireless connectivity everywhere, for all applications, and for all users."

Extricom's patented and award-winning 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 quadruple play of data, voice (VoWLAN), video and location services.

For more information regarding the Municipality of Peñalolén, please visit www.penalolen.cl.

About I-Systems

I-Systems Corporation is a national company with more than 25 years of experience in the development, installation and integration of systems and technical assistance, based on the support that its installation, equipment and professional engineers and technicians can provide, materializing jobs throughout Chile, including Antarctica. This has positioned them as leaders in the national market in the areas of electronics, communications, sensors, radars, power and other industrial products; and has provided them with the recognition of their clients, which are in the private, public and defense sectors. For more information, visit www.isystems.cl.