September 17, 2007

AUBURN CITY SCHOOLS DEPLOYS TRAPEZE NETWORKS SMART MOBILE™ Wi-Fi NETWORK TO ENABLE 21st CENTURY LEARNING INITIATIVE

Trapeze Selected Over Cisco and Aruba to Provide Wireless Mobility

PLEASANTON, Calif., September 13, 2007 – Trapeze Networks®, the award-winning provider of Smart Mobile™ wireless solutions, today announced that Auburn City Schools (ACS) has deployed a Trapeze Smart Mobile Wi-Fi wireless network to provide anytime, anywhere mobility for more than 1,000 laptop-equipped students and teachers at the district’s junior high and high schools. Part of the district’s “21st Century Learning Initiative,” the wireless network will eventually support more than 5,000 students and teachers across nine schools, including the district’s middle and elementary schools.

Creating 21st Century Learners
Located in Auburn, Alabama, ACS launched the 21st Century Learning Initiative in 2005, in response to the No Child Left Behind Act. Beginning with the 2006-07 school year, ACS initiated a program to provide a Wi-Fi -enabled laptop to every ninth grader at Auburn Junior High School. Each year, all ninth graders will receive laptops and keep them through their senior year at Auburn High School. The laptops enhance students’ learning abilities by enabling them to use computer applications such as spreadsheets and word processing programs, access online resources, and use the Internet for researching projects and assignments.

In order to provide ubiquitous connectivity for the laptop-equipped students, ACS decided to deploy wireless networking in the district schools. After considering several vendors, including Cisco’s Airespace and Aruba Networks, ACS selected Trapeze to provide the wireless infrastructure. ACS first installed the networks in the junior high and high school, and plans to also roll out Trapeze Wi-Fi networks in media centers at the district’s middle school and five elementary schools. In addition, a new elementary school under construction will be fully wireless when it opens..

Trapeze Selected for Ease of Use and Reliability
“We selected Trapeze Smart Mobile for a number of reasons, including its ease of use and reliability,” said Debbie B. Rice, director of technology, Auburn City Schools. “A wireless network should operate like the power system—you turn it on and it works without having to worry about it. That’s the experience we’ve had with Trapeze.”

Feedback from students and staff has been very positive, notes Rice. Students in particular enjoy the freedom to move about the campus while remaining connected to the network.

Both the junior high and high schools are multi-structure campuses with multi-level buildings. The Trapeze Smart Mobile networks at each site provide complete wireless coverage for students no matter where they are on the campus, including many outdoor locations between the buildings.

“We were really impressed by how easy it was to plan the network coverage and automatically compute placement of access points using the RingMaster management application,” said Jay E. Sandefur, network engineer, Auburn City Schools. “Managing the network has also been quite easy, which is important since like most school districts our IT resources are limited.”

“Auburn City Schools is a classic example of how to leverage information technology to engage students and advance their learning abilities,” said Jim Vogt, president and chief executive officer, Trapeze Networks. “We are delighted to be their partner in this important mission to make education mobile and to empower students with the option to study and learn anytime, anywhere.”

About Trapeze Networks
Trapeze Networks delivers Smart Mobile™ — a ground-breaking approach to wireless networking, enabling organizations to deploy massively scalable mobile applications that leverage their existing infrastructure. Smart Mobile achieves this breakthrough by introducing intelligent switching, the first and only WLAN architecture that optimizes network traffic based on the underlying application. With Smart Mobile intelligent switching, organizations can support the most demanding next generation wireless applications such as toll-quality voice over WLAN for thousands of users, seamless indoor/outdoor mobility, and high-speed networks based on 802.11n — all without requiring expensive forklift upgrades. Trapeze Networks is well-capitalized, with strategic investments from networking industry leaders including Juniper Networks, Motorola, and Nortel Networks. Founded in March 2002, Trapeze is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with operations in Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.trapezenetworks.com.

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