InnerWireless Reports Record Quarter For Healthcare Orders; Total First-Quarter Hospital Bookings Exceed $10 Million

Sales driven by hospitals’ requirement for guaranteed point-of-care wireless coverage

RICHARDSON, Texas – May 1, 2008–InnerWireless®, Inc., the premier provider of in-building enterprise converged wireless solutions, today reported more than $10 million in healthcare orders during the first three months of 2008, the company’s largest-ever quarter from its healthcare segment. The record sales were fueled by hospitals’ requirement for guaranteed in-building wireless coverage that assures access to mission- and life-critical applications everywhere inside the hospital, with an emphasis on point-of-care coverage.

Facilities including Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles; El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif.; and the Baptist Health South Florida system were among the care providers that chose InnerWireless during the first quarter. Childrens and the Baptist Health South Florida hospitals are existing facilities; El Camino is a new 450,000-square-foot facility expected to open in the summer of 2009 with 300 licensed beds.

“We chose InnerWireless because they blanket our buildings with wireless coverage to the edge where patient care is delivered, and that’s where we absolutely must have guaranteed wireless connectivity for mission- and life-critical applications,” said Steven Garske, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. “The InnerWireless system’s flexibility was also key to our decision because it can install easily into both our existing and new-construction facilities. InnerWireless also gives us long-term flexibility, as adding wireless applications does not require upgrading the system or implementing additional expensive components for each new wireless application.”

Instead of deploying countless discrete wireless systems that each support only one mobile application or service, hospitals increasingly want a comprehensive in-building solution to help them control the accelerating convergence of Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), the platforms that deliver mission- and life-critical services such as mobile clinical applications, cellular/PCS voice and data, and Wi-Fi communications.

To ensure that physicians and nurses can access mission- and life-critical wireless applications everywhere, especially at the patient’s bedside, wireless coverage must evenly and completely blanket the hospital from its core to the very edge of the structure. By using the right mix of passive and active components, InnerWireless is able to achieve both exceptional edge coverage and reliability. Furthermore, InnerWireless can guarantee complete in-building coverage and strong wireless signals everywhere because InnerWireless engineers conduct site surveys, then design a system and deployment plan unique to the facility, which includes engineering to handle a hospital’s particular RF challenges.

“InnerWireless specializes in optimizing wireless ecosystems for convergence, and we are working hard with partners such as Cisco, Hospira, PatientKeeper, Vocera and ThingMagic to help hospitals handle the convergence of wireless wide-area and local-area networks and the many mission- and life-critical applications and devices that are enabled by guaranteed wireless connectivity,” said Ed Cantwell, president, CEO and chairman of InnerWireless. “Our strong first-quarter performance validates the belief that hospitals are recognizing that spotty wireless coverage or a solution that is ‘good enough’ simply can’t be trusted to support everywhere, everytime access to the life-critical applications that are the bedrock for modern healthcare. InnerWireless specializes in optimizing wireless ecosystems for lifecritical applications, making us a truly powerful partner for healthcare as a whole.” About

About InnerWireless
InnerWireless enables today’s mobile workforce with the ubiquitous in-building delivery of Wireless Wide Area Network and WLAN (WiFi) for voice, data, location and other wireless services – guaranteed.  Designed expressly for mission and life critical wireless applications, the HorizonTM Converged Wireless solution is ideal for Hospital, Fortune 100 and Hospitality customers where wired performance is expected.  IT-friendly features like low OPEX, multi-carrier and AP vendor neutrality make Horizon a practical consideration as well.  Businesses wishing to add asset visibility and tracking, can utilize the company’s PanGo™ asset management solution which provides identity, location and condition of key enterprise resources such as assets and people.  For more information about InnerWireless, visit www.innerwireless.com.  

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