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NextHop Technologies and AirTight Networks Partner for Wireless Applications Joint Solutions Address Needs of Enterprise and SMB Customers Mountain View, CA - August 29, 2006 - NextHop Technologies® and AirTight® Networks today announced a marketing and technology partnership providing enhanced security and performance management for enterprise class wireless networking solutions. NextHop and AirTight will co-market wireless solutions to the OEM community based on NextHop’s secure unified wired and wireless switching and routing software and AirTight’s industry leading wireless planning and wireless intrusion prevention solutions. These capabilities will be integrated through both companies’ published APIs (application programming interfaces): the AirTight API for wireless solutions and NextHop’s Dynamic Network Architecture (DNA).   NextHop’s DNA leads the industry in providing the crucial framework necessary for turnkey networking solutions to rapidly integrate value-added software components from independent software vendors, such as AirTight. This partnership will enable networking equipment suppliers to quickly and easily enhance NextHop’s advanced wireless switching solution by additionally offering unique, state of the art WLAN planning tools and intrusion prevention solutions provided by AirTight.   “NextHop is dedicated to bringing enterprise and SMB OEM customers cost effective, easy-to-implement and easy-to-manage software for wireless solutions,” said PG Menon, vice-president marketing at NextHop. “With the rise of WLANs in today’s enterprise networks, companies of all sizes find they require unified wireless switching solution that is integrated with RF planning and intrusion prevention tools. We are therefore pleased to provide our WLAN customers with AirTight’s best of breed security and performance management capabilities.”   AirTight Networks leads the industry in providing both a robust, scaleable, manageable wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) solution. AirTight’s SpectraGuard® Enterprise has established its industry leadership position by delivering the key elements of an effective wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS):   detecting and correctly classifying wireless threats to catch all threats, while minimizing false alarms - preventing (multiple, simultaneous) wireless threats while continuing to scan for new ones - accurately locating the wireless threats on a floor map - so they can be removed.   As wireless usage is now commonplace, these patented capabilities, along with the wireless management capabilities now embedded in all of AirTight’s products, are critical to ensuring the cost-effective, secure, reliable performance of any enterprise network infrastructure.   “OEMs are an important market segment for AirTight,” said David Canavan, vice president of business development at AirTight Networks. “Given NextHop’s proven leadership in this market, this is an important partnership for us. As NextHop and its OEM customers penetrate the market, the need for integrated WIPS and planning solutions will be critical.”     About NextHop Technologies NextHop Technologies - a leading developer of networking software solutions, partnering with customers, vendors and standards bodies, to enable and empower innovation for the networking and telecommunications market. NextHop enables turnkey solutions using merchant silicon and off-the-shelf hardware for the wired and wireless LAN communications market. NextHop's GateD® legacy provides the most complete set of routing protocols in the industry that is more reliable, more tested and more scalable than any other vendor-neutral solution. NextHop offers the unique combination of quick time to market and comprehensive networking functionality for carrier, enterprise LAN and WLAN equipment manufacturers. NextHop reaches these customers through a direct sales model and is based in Mountain View, California. For further information, please visit www.nexthop.com.    Media Contacts:   For NextHop Technologies: Wanda Cavanaugh Windward Communications (650) 851-0880 dcandelori@candelori.comwanda@windwardpr.com About AirTight Networks AirTight Networks, the industry standard for wireless vulnerability management, is the only company that offers customers a flexible, end-to-end solution that gives them visibility into their wireless security posture and a choice in how to manage it. AirTight provides full wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) and the world’s first on demand wireless vulnerability management service. AirTight’s patented technology delivers the key elements of an effective WIPS to eliminate false alarms, block wireless threats immediately and automatically and locate wireless devices and events with pinpoint precision. AirTight’s customers include global retail, financial services, corporate, education and government organizations. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA. For more information please visit www.airtightnetworks.com Media Contacts: Della Lowe AirTight Networks Tel: +1 (650) 934 8191 della.lowe@airtightnetworks.com AirTight Networks, and the AirTight Networks logo are trademarks; and AirTight and SpectraGuard are registered trademark of AirTight Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. << Back to: Press Releases