Cisco Healthcare Germany Selects Ekahau as its Strategic RTLS Partner

Cisco Healthcare Germany Selects Ekahau as its Strategic RTLS Partner

RESTON, Virginia, July 7, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    Ekahau, the worldwide leader in high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time
Location Systems (RTLS)
[http://www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html ],
today announced a strategic cooperation with Cisco Healthcare in Germany.
Ekahau is already a member of the Cisco Developer Network (CDN) and Ekahau
RTLS solution is CCX- (Cisco Compatible Extensions) and Cisco Assurewave
-certified. On this basis, Ekahau has implemented advanced features in
supporting Cisco wireless infrastructure and leveraging Cisco's open API
interfaces, and companies have therefore decided to work in a closer
partnership in the German healthcare market.

    (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090513/347052 )

    "Cisco Healthcare Germany decided to engage in a strategic partnership
with Ekahau because of their advanced technology and the cost-effective
overall solution. Another reason for this choice was the fact that here in
Germany Ekahau provides all its services in German, which is considered as
an important precondition for our cooperation," says Axel Barthel, Account
Manager Healthcare with Cisco Healthcare Germany. The cooperation between
Ekahau and Cisco Healthcare Germany provides the following benefits to the
customers:

   
    - Strong joint Partner ecosystem enabling innovative overall
      solutions in the healthcare market
    - Certified and tested interoperability
    - Future-proof investments relying on two market and innovation
      leaders
    - Simple operation of the joint-solution to ensure maximum
      customer value

    Following the joint appearance of Cisco and Ekahau at the ConHit Berlin
conference in April, the next joint presentation in Germany is planned for
the Medica conference in Duesseldorf in November.

    "We are very glad about the cooperation with Cisco Healthcare Germany,"
says Dirk Lenz, Ekahau's Regional Manager of Central and Eastern Europe. "We
have already had excellent cooperation in the recent years and we will now
continue to expand the partnership." In cooperation with Cisco Healthcare
Germany and their service partners, several Ekahau RTLS solutions are
already installed in several German hospitals.

    For more information about Ekahau please visit:
http://www.ekahau.com/why-ekahau.html

    About Ekahau Inc.

    Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi based RTLS
solutions. Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies
worldwide, are realizing the benefits of Wi-Fi based location services and
innovative Wi-Fi network planning and optimization tools. Ekahau partners
include wireless software developers, leading system integrators, and
international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise
applications. Ekahau is a U.S. based corporation, with offices in Saratoga,
CA; Reston, VA; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more
information about Ekahau, please visit at http://www.ekahau.com.

Source: Ekahau Inc.

Press Contact: Janina Rogge, Kafka Kommunikation GmbH &Co KG, +49(0)89-74-74-70-58-0, jrogge@kafka-kommunikation.de ; Annina Pierson, Marketing Direktor, Ekahau, +358-20-743-5910, annina.pierson@ekahau.com