Motorola Takes 802.11n Technology Outdoor With Powerful Mesh Wide Area Network Solution

Motorola Takes 802.11n Technology Outdoor With Powerful Mesh Wide Area Network
Solution
802.11n mesh access points help cities and businesses build a reliable,
high-bandwidth wireless network infrastructure to meet growing mobility needs

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Enterprise Mobility
Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the AP 7181
access point, a high-performance, reliable and secure 802.11n outdoor mesh
wide area network (MWAN) solution. Offering data speeds of up to 300 Mbps and
featuring Motorola's proprietary ADvanced Element Panel Technology (ADEPT)
antenna system, the AP 7181 provides municipalities and enterprise customers
with a flexible wireless network solution that supports their current and
future data, video and voice needs.

Motorola's AP 7181 outdoor mesh access points provide more network capacity,
enable more applications and support more users than 802.11a/b/g mesh
solutions, accelerating return on investment. Motorola's innovative ADEPT
antenna system enables the AP 7181 to achieve maximum performance by
communicating two simultaneous data streams in the same channel and avoiding
the self-shadowing of typical multi-antenna solutions. With antennas
integrated into an aesthetic enclosure, Motorola's solution overcomes the
limitations of multiple antenna sticks in a typical 802.11n access point.
Network availability and reliability is further strengthened with 802.11n
radios specifically designed by Motorola to maintain full power at high data
rates, ensuring enhanced client connections and superior mesh throughput
throughout a coverage area.

"Our customers seek solutions that can support a broad range of fixed and
mobile applications, from automated meter reading to field mobility to
wireless video surveillance," said Nelson Santos, president, Scientel
Wireless. "802.11n mesh networks offer a compelling connectivity option with
one infrastructure having enough bandwidth and capacity to support many of
these applications simultaneously."

Motorola's outdoor mesh solution offers the powerful capabilities of 802.11n
technologies, while also maintaining backward compatibility and improving
performance for 802.11a/b/g clients, which helps customers maximize their
existing mobility investments. The AP 7181 access point offers robust mobile
data connections throughout a network by leveraging Motorola's MeshConnex(TM)
routing technology to enable efficient routing, low hop latency, low routing
overhead, high-speed handoffs and proven scalability. The field-proven
MeshConnex technology allows the AP 7181 to maintain a continuous video
connection to or from a moving vehicle or train, enabling video surveillance
in real time. Municipal and enterprise customers can also leverage these
mobility features to deliver high-speed Internet access to mobile workers who
need to stay connected to key office applications while in the field.

Municipalities are increasingly looking to wireless broadband technologies to
help them save money and enhance city services with advanced mobility
applications that include e-citations, automated meter reading, intelligent
traffic systems or wireless video security for public safety. The increased
data rates and network capacity delivered by the Motorola AP 7181 solution
enable municipal customers to leverage a single private wireless network to
support a wide range of mobility applications while offering WiFi access to
residents and businesses. Businesses and education institutions are also
finding an increasing need for mobile access across campus environments,
seeking solutions that can offer superior throughput and stronger backhaul
connections while delivering reliable and secure coverage using fewer access
points. The AP 7181 offers organizations involved in the education,
transportation and industrial markets a cost-effective wireless broadband
solution that has enough capacity, power and throughput to support even the
most bandwidth-demanding applications like video and voice.

"Working with municipal and enterprise customers across the globe, Motorola
has a long history of delivering innovative solutions that enable them to
leverage mobility applications to help streamline operations, increase worker
safety and improve productivity," said Scott French, MSSI vice president and
senior sales director for emerging technologies and solutions, Motorola
Enterprise Mobility Solutions. "Motorola's high-capacity, high-throughput
802.11n mesh solution will enable customers to future-proof their network
infrastructure investments to support both current as well as future
application needs."

Customers can leverage wireless network design and management solutions from
the Motorola One Point Wireless Suite to ensure faster deployment, maximum
network performance and reduced network maintenance costs. The recently
introduced Motorola BroadbandPlanner is an intuitive software solution that
helps customers propose, design, deploy and measure outdoor 802.11n mesh
wireless networks. With an advanced RF modeling engine, ability to export
design information to Google Maps for easy viewing, and streamlined
measurement and verification capabilities, this innovative solution helps
customers propose wireless network solutions with confidence and deploy them
with maximum efficiency.

Once deployed, the 802.11n mesh wide area network can be accurately monitored,
managed and optimized using the Motorola Wireless Manager. Offering network
administrators a visualization of their entire outdoor and indoor wireless
network through a Google Map view, this comprehensive management solution
makes it easy to manage the complexities of a multi-layer wireless network by
clearly showing performance metrics, network relationships and locations of
all wireless elements.

Customers can purchase the AP 7181 mesh solution beginning in the fourth
quarter of 2009.

Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the
hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their
business or better serve and protect the public. Working seamlessly together
with its world-class devices, Motorola's unrivaled wireless network solutions
include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint,
point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful
software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management
and troubleshooting, Motorola's solutions deliver trusted networking and
access anywhere to organizations across the globe.

About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is
focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications
infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to
high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of
innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more
connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $30.1 billion
in 2008. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.

Media Contact:
Bart Lipinski
Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions
+1 847-576-6931
bart.lipinski@motorola.com

Analyst Contact:
Katherine Wiesner
Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions
+1 847-576-1638
k.wiesner@motorola.com

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