AirLok Model 300 Delivers Wireless Services to Marina Environment

Lok Technology, developer of the AirLok Wireless Infrastructure Appliance and other trusted computing appliances, announces today that its AirLok Model 300 was selected by Smartwires, a wireless Internet service provider and network integrator, to manage and provision the Wi-Fi infrastructure for a private Yacht Club on Key Biscayne near Miami Beach. The AirLok Model 300 provides comprehensive wireless services: managing the wireless network and authenticating and billing the users. Wireless service providers no longer have to rely on third-party services for billing and authentication.

Miami, FL (PRWEB) February 13, 2004 --Rich feature set provides secure Wi-Fi service to demanding members, winter visitors, and staff.

Lok Technology, developer of the AirLok Wireless Infrastructure Appliance and other trusted computing appliances, announces today that its AirLok Model 300 was selected by Smartwires, a wireless Internet service provider and network integrator, to manage and provision the Wi-Fi infrastructure for a private Yacht Club on Key Biscayne near Miami Beach.

The AirLok Model 300 provides comprehensive wireless services: managing the wireless network and authenticating and billing the users. Wireless service providers no longer have to rely on third-party services for billing and authentication.

Given the total cost of implementation and ownership of a hot spot, it makes sense to implement the AirLok. It pays for itself and allows our organization to dynamically manage the entire environment remotely without outside service contracts," SmartWires, Inc., President Daniel Ghansah, comments. Using the AirLok also reduced our installation time down to a few hours, rather than several days."

The AirLok Model 300 offers a number of dynamic, user-centric features including AAA functionality, secure and flexible token generation, secure authentication, scalability to serve 100 concurrent users from among 10,000 registered users, compatibility with any end node or AP manufacturer, bandwidth management and intrusion protection.

The Model 300 is one of four AirLok models providing network infrastructure management. Larger models can scale to manage up to 50,000 concurrent users, store over 10 million registered users and cache several terabytes of data. Pricing for these models ranges from $5000 to support the entire backend management of a small wireless network or several small hotspots with dozens of users to $50,000 for the carrier-grade solution to manage municipal or corporate wireless and wireline networks with thousands of users.

We believe that the AirLok is the first truly integrated wireless infrastructure appliance offered at a cost effective, compelling price point that enables service providers to manage and provision a wireless infrastructure all without having to resort to outsourced billing and authentication services," states Lok Technology CEO, Stuart Woodward.

Lok Technology introduced the AirLok to the Wi-Fi market in October 2003 at WISPCON IV in Dallas. It has since begun filling orders from wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) and enterprises that are either building or securing their wireless and wireline networks. Lok Technology will be exhibiting at Broadband Wireless World in San Diego in February, WISPCON V in Chicago in March, and at The Wireless LAN Event in London in April. The Company is currently building reseller and distribution relationships in North America and Europe.

About LokTek
Lok Technology, Inc. is a private company headquartered in Miami, FL. LokTek develops trusted computing appliances based on an open sourced and ultra-thin client computing platform incorporating an integrated PKI. www.air-lok.com

About SmartWires
Miami-based SmartWires is a privately held Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) and Wireless Network Integrator. SmartWires is a system integrator and value-added reseller for SmartBridges and Lok Technology. The company currently offers Wi-Fi services in South Florida and is enabling Wi-Fi networks for other WISPs throughout the US and internationally. www.smartwires.net
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