(May 11, 1999) - Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, today launched a comprehensive portfolio of standards based wireless LAN products, designed to provide broadband wireless connectivity for mobile professionals, and which form a key component of the recently announced family of Nokia IP Mobility solutions.
"We are anticipating that wireless LAN technologies will move rapidly toward a wider horizontal market adoption than has been experienced to date," said Dan MacDonald, vice president marketing, Nokia Wireless Business Communications. "Nokia plans to fuel this transition by leveraging its core competency in mobility, through our commitment and leadership in the area of standards, multi-vendor interoperability, and attractive pricing and packaging."
Nokia Wireless LAN portfolio combines mobility with high data rates. The wireless LAN portfolio, targeted at today's mobile professional, includes the Nokia Wireless LAN Access Point, Nokia Wireless LAN PC Card, and sophisticated software and utilities to make installation, use and management a seamless extension to a wired network.
· based on the IEEE 802.11 industry standard · provides initially 2 megabits per second wireless connections · can be used in laptop computers, high-end PDAs or other devices with a PC Card (PCMCIA) slot, running the Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 operating systems · requires no further actions from the user after initial installation the cards · backwards compatible, thus offering a unique growth path for customers · for direct communications between portable computers, the solution supports adhoc peer-to-peer networking
· based on the IEEE 802.11 industry standard · provides initially up to 2 megabits per second wireless connections and is upgradeable to the IEEE 802.11 High Rate versions as they become available · includes state-of-the-art web-based configuration management and SNMP for remote monitoring · can act as a branch office access router providing on-demand access to the Internet and the corporate network so that all users may share a single Internet Service Provider account · can support up to 30 mobile users, depending on the level of network access connects to wired LAN via 10 Mbps Ethernet connection
"To date, wireless LAN technology has primarily been accepted in niche markets," said Virginia Brooks, vice president of networking and telecommunications, Aberdeen Group. "With its expertise and brand name recognition in mobility and its recent IP acquisitions, Nokia is well-positioned to move wireless LAN solutions toward a much wider market."
The sales of Nokia Wireless LAN products are scheduled to start in volume in the second quarter of 1999 in US. In Europe, the products will be available in the third quarter of 1999. More details about the products can be found at www.nokia.com.
With the Nokia wireless LAN solution, corporations can expand their existing LAN's, to meeting rooms and shared areas to enable mobile professionals access to networked services with their portable computers as if they were at their desk. It will also be used to create public "hotspots" in places such as airports, hotels, convention centres, office campuses and business centres, allowing mobile professionals to gain broadband wireless connectivity to the internet and other IP based services such as virtual private networks (VPN).
Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges, has sales in over 130 countries and employs more than 47,000 people worldwide.
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