Extricom Announces £1 Million UK Education Grant Programme
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Program Offers Wireless LAN Infrastructure Grants to Educational Institutions in the UK
London, UK - April 18th, 2007 - Extricom, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance, next generation wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure solutions, today announced its first annual UK Education Grant Programme. The programme will offer a total of £1 Million worth of grant awards to qualified educational institutions throughout the United Kingdom.
WLAN contributes to both the educational process and the operation of the school campus itself. It enables network services to be quickly and cost-effectively extended, thereby maximising access to learning and administrative resources. Consequently, educational institutions are among the highest adopters of WLAN technology, and are at the forefront in innovative, non-traditional uses of wireless.
Extricom has recently enabled numerous UK schools to deploy WLAN for a host of applications, ranging from attendance tracking at Washwood Heath in Birmingham, to closed circuit TV at Fleetwood College in Lancashire, to student residence data connectivity at Rainford College and Bruton School for Girls, to name a few.
"The Extricom WLAN System brings unique benefits to schools, resulting in strong and sustained success in this arena since we established operations in the UK," said Steve Northedge, vice-president and general manager, EMEA, for Extricom. "The transformational power of wireless is undeniable, and by offering this Education Grant program, Extricom is pleased to contribute to the adoption of such critical infrastructure technology by our nation's schools."
Extricom's award-winning Interference-Free(tm) WLAN System represents the next generation of enterprise Wi-Fi, with a fundamental shift in architecture from 'cell-planning' to a 'channel blanket' topology. Thanks to its innovative approach, WLAN deployment and maintenance is made dramatically easier and lower in total cost of ownership than traditional alternatives, while achieving a generational leap in capacity, coverage, seamless mobility, and security. The end-result is highly scalable WLAN infrastructure that delivers campus-wide voice, data, and video services with the dependability of a wired network.
For further details, and to apply for the 2007 UK Education Grant Programme, please visit http://extricom.com/content/news/promotions/promo2.
About Extricom
Extricom designs and manufactures enterprise Wireless LAN infrastructure solutions for converged data, voice (VoWLAN), and video. The Extricom Interference-Free(tm) architecture enables dramatically easier WLAN deployment and lower total cost of ownership, while achieving a generational leap in capacity, coverage, seamless mobility and security performance. The result is a large-scale WLAN infrastructure delivering enterprise-wide triple play services, with the dependability of a wired network. Extricom is privately held, with strategic investors that include Motorola. Inquiries: www.extricom.com.
Media:Charlotte Sandy / Mark Waite / Ellen Dobbins Cohesive Communications, +44 (0) 1291 626200, extricom@cohesive.uk.com.
