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Wireless Networks Picks NetSilicon to Connect Wireless Bluetooth Devices to LANs
URL(s): www.NetSilicon.com
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 7, 2001--
-- NetSilicon's NET+Works(TM) "Solution-on-Chip" Allows
Bluetooth(TM)-Enabled Equipment to Access Local Area Networks --
Facilitating the next wave of mobile communications, NetSilicon, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSIL), the leading provider of integrated hardware
and software for intelligent, networked devices, and Wireless Networks Inc., an innovative company that designs, develops, markets,
and supports a family of voice and data wireless communication products based on Bluetooth wireless technology, today announced that
NetSilicon's NET+Works device networking platform is providing the connectivity for Wireless Networks' BlueLAN(TM) access point,
which allows wireless Bluetooth devices to access Local Area Networks (LANs). BlueLAN enables mobile computer or mobile phone
users to connect their devices to the enterprise, SOHO, and public "hotspot" markets, such as airports and convention centers, via the
Bluetooth wireless protocol.
"With Wireless Networks' innovative BlueLAN product, mobile phone and computer users have wireless voice and data connectivity
at their fingertips - literally," said Cornelius "Pete" Peterson, chairman and CEO, NetSilicon. "By building NetSilicon's fully tested and
production-ready networked microprocessor into BlueLAN, Wireless Networks' design engineers could leverage NetSilicon's tightly
coupled processing hardware and networking software and get their product to market quickly, rather than buy discrete components
from separate vendors and attempt to learn network integration on their own."
Wireless Networks' BlueLAN is a LAN access point that allows multiple Bluetooth devices to access a local network through the
BlueLAN's Ethernet port. This new technology allows Bluetooth-enabled mobile users to send and receive emails, surf the Web, and
access other LAN and WAN resources. In addition, the company is designing DHCP, Authentication, Network Address translation and
a PPP server into the LAN access point. Wireless Networks deployed NetSilicon's complete open source connectivity solution that runs
uClinux, a form of the embedded Linux operating system, on the NetSilicon hardware platform.
NetSilicon's NET+Works product family is a fully integrated, tested, and production-ready embedded platform comprised of
complete hardware, software, real-time operating system (RTOS), network protocols and servers, application programming interfaces
(APIs), drivers, and utilities - fully supported and royalty-free. By elevating the traditional hardware-only system-on-silicon approach to
a tightly coupled "solution-on-chip," NetSilicon is able to give OEMs an out-of-box solution that allows design engineers to increase
focus on product design and meet time-to-market demands. NET+Works is used in a variety of applications, such as Internet telephony,
building access and control, wireless base stations, retail point-of-sale, office appliances, and handheld computing.
Hany Shenouda, president and CEO of Wireless Networks Inc., explained the reason for choosing NetSilicon's integrated hardware
and software embedded platform by stating that, "The NET+Works complete device networking solution allowed Wireless Networks to
reduce design risks and lower program costs." Mr. Shenouda continued, "NET+Works was an ideal platform that allowed development
time to be reduced by providing the hardware, software, and development tools in a finished form box. Our engineers were allowed to
focus on our unique application, having confidence in the underlying solution provided by NetSilicon."
About Wireless Networks
Wireless Networks Inc. is a leading customer-oriented corporation that creates wireless solutions to enable people and devices to
communicate with each other however, wherever and whenever they want through easy to use devices and applications. The company is
poised to take advantage of Bluetooth technology and the emerging new way of living. The company's products, BlueAccess,
BlueBridge and BlueLAN, are gateways to the home, public and business markets.
For additional company information, please visit our web site at www.wirelessnetworksinc.com, or send an email to
info@wirelessnetworksinc.com or call (403) 235-2609. Wireless Networks Inc.'s headquarters is located at 300, 3016 Fifth Avenue
NE, Calgary, Alberta T2A 6K4 Canada.
NetSilicon (Nasdaq: NSIL) designs and manufactures integrated solutions for manufacturers who want to build intelligence and
Internet/Ethernet connectivity into their products. These solutions integrate system-on-silicon and software to provide a complete
platform for Internet/Ethernet-connected products. The NET+Works platform allows manufacturers to shorten their time to market,
reduce development risk, lower costs, and free their engineers from the difficult task of integrating multi-vendor networking components.
NetSilicon is enabling device intelligence and connectivity in a broad range of industries, including office imaging, industrial automation,
telecommunications, building controls, security, and retail point of sale. NetSilicon's solutions are paving the way for the device-centric
networks of tomorrow.
For additional company, product, or financial information, please visit the NetSilicon Web site, www.NetSilicon.com, send email to
info@NetSilicon.com, or call 800-243-2333. For calls originating outside the US, call 781-647-1234. NetSilicon headquarters is
located at 411 Waverley Oaks Road #227, Waltham, MA 02452.
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