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InnerWireless and PanGo Announce Merger
Merger provides full portfolio of real-time
location products, services and applications; PanGo seamlessly
integrates with InnerWireless’ RF platform and “Spot” asset
tracker
RICHARDSON, Texas and FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
March 20, 2007
InnerWireless®, Inc., and
PanGo® Networks, Inc., (PanGo) today announced their merger,
creating the industry’s only fully
integrated wireless and location services company. The merger combines
PanGo’s best-in-class location
services platform and asset tracking applications software with
the industry-leading RF management
platform, Horizon, and deployment capabilities from InnerWireless.
The merged company will offer end-to-end, turnkey solutions in markets
where wireless and location services are mission and life critical.
InnerWireless will focus initially on the global
healthcare, commercial and industrial markets via direct
customer engagement and strategic partners.
“
Through this merger, InnerWireless now has the technology, solutions
and people to provide its
customers with fully integrated and fully assured wireless and
location services,” said Ed Cantwell,
InnerWireless president, CEO and chairman. “The combined
company is unmatched in terms of talent,
experience and a commitment to provide customers the value they
desire from their wireless infrastructure
and application investments.”
PanGo co-founder Michael Campbell,
who will serve as senior vice president for location services in
the
merged company, added, “There is extraordinary value in location-aware
workflow and asset
management, but until now, customers have been reluctant to
invest because no single vendor could
provide the assurance that systems would perform reliably and
could be easily deployed and supported.”
PanGo completely aligns with InnerWireless’ mission
of being a leading provider of wireless solutions
that integrate voice, data and location networks to reliably
deliver timely and relevant information to
mission- and life-critical applications.
The combined company will provide customers with solutions
that are tailored to each customer’s unique
requirements for location system granularity. The PanOS
location services platform provides an
extensible architecture supporting a wide range of location
technologies that meet these specific use cases
and the ability to accurately locate assets and people to
zone, room, and sub-meter accuracy. Additional
value comes from seamless integration with value-added end-user
applications including the company’s
own asset tracking system, PanGo Locator®, and many third-party
systems for asset management,
workflow automation and enterprise safety. The platform
extends the value of the InnerWireless Spot
solution, which provides room-level accuracy and complements
other technologies such as Wi-Fi
(802.11), passive RFID, Ultra Wideband (UWB), and Infrared
(IR) through partners and third-party
providers.
PanGo solutions will also seamlessly integrate with InnerWireless’ leading-edge
RF platform, Horizon,
which is engineered to support a full range of wireless
services and applications to enable interpersonal
communications, clinical operations and building operations
such as cellular/PCS, WLAN, VoIP, WMTS
and two-way radios for security and first responder support.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
However, in connection with the transaction, PanGo’s
investor group joined InnerWireless’ existing investors in
follow-on funding. PanGo’s investor group
will appoint one board member to InnerWireless’ eight-seat
board of directors.
About InnerWireless
InnerWireless, Inc. enables wireless coverage inside large
commercial, healthcare and government
buildings with Horizon, its wireless utility, a unified
broadband distribution platform; the company’s
other core product is Spot, a real-time location system
(RTLS) that provides wireless, high-assurance
location tracking for hospital assets, clinical staff
and patients. InnerWireless’ leading-edge RF platform,
Horizon, is engineered to support a full range of wireless
services and application to enable interpersonal
communications, clinical operations and building operations
such as cellular/PCS, WLAN, VoIP, and
two-way radios for security and first responder support.
Horizon is scalable and future ready, so
enterprises can add new wireless technologies without
disruption.
For more information about InnerWireless,
see www.InnerWireless.com.
Contact:
Christina Teagarden
Jetstream PR for InnerWireless
972.788.9456, ext. 302
teagarden@jetstreampr.com
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