Boston - June 14, 2004 - Newbury Networks Inc., (www.newburynetworks.com) the industry's first and only provider of location-based management and security solutions for wireless networks, today announced that its WiFi Workplace™ was named Best of Show at the recent Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo in Baltimore, MD. WiFi Workplace was chosen for its technical achievement in the Enterprise Security and Management category over a number of other 802.11-based WLAN management and security products.
WiFi Workplace is an enterprise software system for both management and security of 802.11-based WLANs. By utilizing Newbury's patented location-based detection and tracking for 802.11, WiFi Workplace optimizes overall network performance by identifying where WLAN activity is occurring and analyzing the quality and type of network associations being established enterprise wide.
"WiFi Workplace contains all the features of Newbury's WiFi Watchdog but adds on network management features such as VLAN tagging and a 'weather map' of what client has associated with what access point," said Eric Griffith, managing editor, Wi-Fi Planet.com. "When matched up with policy enforcement based on the location of the client, you're looking at the first major product to bring effective location-awareness into corporate WLANs."
WiFi Workplace leverages the security capabilities found in Newbury's award-winning WiFi Watchdog™ product (named Best of Show at Wi-Fi Planet Fall 2003) and works in conjunction with industry standard switches and access points, such as those provided by Cisco and Proxim, leveraging and enhancing the enterprises' existing investment in WLAN infrastructure.
"This back-to-back award demonstrates the importance of location for managing and securing wireless LANs," said Michael Maggio, president and CEO, Newbury Networks. "WiFi Workplace will make a significant performance and security impact on the enterprise wireless network with its patented location-based usage and authorization policy capabilities."
WiFi Workplace was announced last week at the Wi-Fi Planet Spring Conference & Expo.
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Newbury Networks is the provider of the industry's first and only location-based management and security solutions that enables IT/Security professionals to locate, manage and secure WLANs. Newbury's award-winning products provide unprecedented security through its patented location-based tracking and perimeter security capabilities.
Unlike traditional wireless IDS and network infrastructure solutions, Newbury's products provide breakthrough capabilities for managing and securing WLANs by location - ultimately resulting in enhanced, airtight security and system performance. And unlike other location-based offerings, its server-based approach enables content and network provisioning, tracking, logging and analysis. Newbury Networks was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston.
