Apprion Press Release

Apprion Unveils Next Generation of the ION System

Enables Secure, Reliable, Wireless Application Networks in Large Process Manufacturing Plants

Moffett Field, California - June 18, 2007 - Apprion today announced the next generation of its ION System for industrial application networking. Apprion's ION System is a comprehensive industrial wireless application networking system built from the ground-up as the first truly open, scalable, and extensible foundation for managing multi-vendor wireless devices and applications. The latest release of the ION System delivers improved security, management and integration capabilities to meet the challenges of the evolving process manufacturing environment.

While the basic building blocks for a wirelessly connected plant exist today, wireless systems have remained fragmented, proprietary and difficult to integrate. This critical gap has made it difficult to realize the full potential of wireless in an industrial setting. In contrast, Apprion designed the ION System to cost-effectively design, deploy and manage wireless-enabled applications in a unified system that is more secure, more reliable and easier to extend in the future as technologies evolve and new applications become available.

Within the updated ION System, which consists of the Apprion IONosphere and IONizers, the IONosphere is an on-site controller with enhanced features and functionality to automatically bring devices, systems and applications under management, ensuring improved network performance, security, and reliability. Apprion's IONizer is the process industry's first industrial wireless networking appliance. IONizers are designed to cost-effectively integrate and secure previously disparate wireless-enabled applications, such as VoIP and condition monitoring.

Security enhancements to both components of the ION System make it easy for administrators to bring legitimate devices and systems under unified management.

In addition, ION delivers the first interface that gives users perspective from both a geospatial and relational framework. This interface makes photographs, maps, or CAD drawings available via a web-based portal, allowing users to record and use information in the form that is most appropriate for their operational responsibilities.

Additional benefits of the ION System are:

Cost-Effectiveness: Management of multi-vendor devices and applications within a single system.
Open: The ION System works across vendor products and is standards-based.
Extensibility/Scalability: ION enables new applications and leverages state-of-the-art technology for system scalability.
Security: ION acts as a virtual "security guard" to protect the wireless network and complies with security regulations.
Wireless Application Enablement: IONapps such as network management, VoIP, and condition monitoring, provide key functionality for wireless applications integration.
Performance and Reliability: ION monitors performance and conditions in industrial wireless devices enabling remote management and assuring the availability of critical applications.

"Process manufacturers know that their wireless operations require multiple technologies, suppliers, and applications," commented Harry Forbes, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group. "Companies are using the ION System to create a flexible, expandable and secure infrastructure that will support both their existing and future wireless applications."

"Apprion changes the way process industries look at wireless," said Stephen Lambright, president and CEO of Apprion. "Apprion is the only company that has devised a way to make implementing wireless industrial applications easier and more cost-effective. Our ION system makes it possible to move forward using a unified, open, and secure framework. Plant management teams can finally take full advantage of the benefits that wireless offers with confidence in its security and reliability."

About Apprion
Apprion delivers wireless application networks and services for the process manufacturing industry. These wireless application networks are based on Apprion's ION System – the first and only open, scalable, and extensible foundation for managing and integrating multi-vendor wireless devices and applications.

Whether it is the need to address safety or security concerns, reduce maintenance or material costs, or improve productivity or asset utilization, a wireless application network from Apprion will assure that any wireless application is easier to deploy and manage while delivering value faster, more efficiently. For more information, visit www.apprion.com.

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