Fidelity Comtech Announces Partnership with Assured Information Security to Bring...

Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:55pm EDT
 
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Fidelity Comtech Announces Partnership with Assured Information Security to Bring Extended Wireless and Standoff GeoLocation to Government Customers

   Solution Provides Reliable, Secure Extended Wireless GeoLocation
         and Networking for U.S. Federal and State Governments
LONGMONT, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
Fidelity Comtech, Inc. (FCI), the leading provider of extended
wireless solutions, today announced an agreement with Assured
Information Security, Inc. (AIS), in which it will integrate and
resell Fidelity Comtech's government version of the Phocus Array(TM)
System, a small lightweight outdoor extended reach 802.11b/g phased
array wireless system as part of AIS' government integrated solutions.
In addition to providing extended wireless coverage in large area
outdoor environments, AIS will be integrating FCI's new Geo-II(TM) and
Geo-III(TM) location capabilities for indoor and outdoor challenging
environments. As a result of this partnership, AIS will offer its
customers reliable, secure extended wireless access for a range of
large area outdoor and indoor networking and GeoLocation applications
for the U.S. federal and state governments.

   "Fidelity Comtech brings new added dimensions to wireless
solutions with their superior wireless reach and standoff GeoLocation
capabilities. We have already integrated their product capabilities
into some of our leading government solutions," said Glenn T. Welsh,
Vice President, Assured Information Security.

   Fidelity Comtech's Phocus Array System incorporates the company's
patented dynamic beam steering and shaping (DBSS) technology which
allows the shape, direction and size of the antenna patterns to be
varied on a packet-by-packet basis. This flexibility allows the beam
for IEEE 802.11 b/g communications to be pointed instantly for
increased signal range and improved network reliability, and directed
to reach a specific geographic area. The standard product Phocus Array
System can support links of up to nearly 15 miles with a significant
reduction in infrastructure for large area wireless coverage. More
importantly, the Phocus Array System extends the wireless reach of
typical Wi-Fi clients nearly four times their normal distance.
Fidelity Comtech's second-generation system also incorporates WPA and
WPA2 wireless security with 3DES and AES encryption, respectively, and
features additional memory and a new faster core computing platform
based on Intel's XScale processor. Geo-II Line-of-Bearing (LoB) and
Geo-III Pin-point Standoff GeoLocation (PSG) software provides
superior capabilities.

   "Our companies are known for state-of-the-art, reliable, and
secure mobile extended wireless and GeoLocation solutions in
operationally challenging applications, and we look forward to working
with Assured Information Security to bring our solutions to a number
of new government customers," said Joe Carey, President and CEO of
Fidelity Comtech.

   For more information on mobile computing solutions from Assured
Information Security, visit http://www.ainfosec.com. More information
about Fidelity Comtech can be found at www.fidelity-comtech.com.

   About Assured Information Security, Inc.

   Assured Information Security, Inc. is a small business entity
focused solely on Computer and Network Security Technology Research
and Development. Information Assurance is a large part of what we do
and it reflects in our name and our people. Located on the beautiful
upstate New York campus of Griffiss Park in Rome, we provide
professional R&D services to the Government and produce many
specialized products for computer network security.

   Fidelity Comtech, Inc.

   Fidelity Comtech, Inc. is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.
Since 2001, Fidelity Comtech has provided premier RF components,
antennas and systems to commercial and government customers. FCI's
Phocus Array and GeoLocation products, utilizing Vector Modulated
Technology(TM) and FlexVMT(TM), are changing and improving the way the
world uses wireless communications. Fidelity Comtech is the leader in
outdoor extended wireless and GeoLocation products. Its products
deliver the flexibility of traditional Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 wireless
products with the capability on a packet-by-packet basis to
dynamically "beam steer, shape, and size" extended signals for miles
while deriving standoff location information about the Wi-Fi client.
Phocus Array, FlexVMT, G.R.I.P.S., Geo-I, Geo-II, Geo-III and Vector
Modulated Technology are trademarks of Fidelity Comtech, Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. VMT is
an acronym for the technology covered by U.S. patent #6,894,657.

Fidelity Comtech, Inc.
Richard Krebs or Joe Carey, 303-678-8876
richard.krebs@fidelity-comtech.com
or
Assured Information Security, Inc.
Glenn Welsh, 315-336-3306
welshg@ainfosec.com

Copyright Business Wire 2008

 

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