Datalogic Mobile Partners with Summit for Enterprise-Class Wi-Fi
New strategic alliance ensures that Datalogic mobile computers offer industry-leading wireless networking capabilities.
Bologna, Italy (Vocus) March 30, 2009
Datalogic Mobile today announced that it has forged a strategic alliance with Summit Data Communications, the leading provider of wireless LAN radio modules and cards for business-critical mobile devices. The partnership brings Summit embedded Wi-Fi® solutions to Datalogic Mobile computers, ensuring that these computers support secure and reliable wireless network connections, even in the most challenging environments.
“Our customers demand high quality and reliability from our products,” said Datalogic Mobile Vice President and General Manager Francesco Montanari. “Summit understands the requirements of our customers. By incorporating Summit embedded Wi-Fi solutions in our mobile computers, we meet and even exceed our customers’ expectations for secure and reliable wireless networking.”
Security has been the hottest topic in the Wi-Fi industry since the initial Wi-Fi standards were approved nearly a decade ago. The top industry standard for Wi-Fi security – known as the Enterprise version of Wi-Fi Protected Access™ 2, or WPA2-Enterprise – provides strong authentication and strong encryption to protect sensitive data that resides on enterprise networks or is transmitted between those networks and Wi-Fi devices. By offering the WPA2-Enterprise technology, Datalogic Mobile places itself at the top of the professional Wi-Fi mobile computer market.
“With Summit Wi-Fi inside, Datalogic Mobile computers support WPA2-Enterprise with a broad range of options, including all the popular authentication types,” said Ron Seide, Summit’s president. “It is easy to configure Datalogic Mobile computers for even the most secure networks, including those that are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).”
Another differentiator for Summit embedded Wi-Fi solutions is support for Cisco Compatible Extensions, or CCX. All Summit solutions have been certified for CCX Version 4, the highest level of compatibility supported on mobile computers. By leveraging Summit’s CCX support, Datalogic Mobile has achieved CCX V4 compliance on its products.
“By supporting all CCX V4 features, Datalogic Mobile computers support the latest industry standards and innovations for key capabilities such as security, mobility, quality of service, and management,” said Tom Burke, Director of World Wide Product Marketing for Datalogic Mobile. “CCX V4 testing ensures that those capabilities are supported with both autonomous and controller-based wireless infrastructures. With this certification, Datalogic Mobile provides our business partners a strategic advantage in winning business in the most widely used wireless LAN infrastructures worldwide.”
Click here (http://www. mobile. datalogic. com/news. aspx? idnews=1310) for the Datalogic announcement. Information regarding Datalogic Mobile can be found at www. mobile. datalogic. com. Information about Summit can be found at www. summitdatacom. com.
About Datalogic
Datalogic Mobile, part of the Datalogic Group, is a global player in the Rugged Mobile Computers market, offering a full range of products, dedicated to the main target application fields: warehousing solutions, field-force automation, and retail in-store.
Enterprise Business Solutions, Datalogic Mobile Business Unit, is a leader in the development of complete Self-Shopping solutions and Consumer Relationship Technologies for the retail world with the Shopevolution™ offer.
With a strong presence in EMEA, Americas, and Asia/Pacific and a powerful network of partners all over the world, Datalogic Mobile has been able to show an impressive track record of growth, permitting it to be one of the fastest growing companies in the industry and to be positioned among the worldwide market leaders.
Datalogic Group is a world-class producer of bar code readers, data collection mobile computers, RFID systems, and photoelectric sensors for the industrial automation sector. The Group offers innovative solutions for many industrial applications, from manufacturing to transportation & logistics and retail.
Datalogic S. p.A. has been listed on the STAR segment of the Italian stock exchange since 2001 as DAL. MI, with headquarters located in Lippo di Calderara di Reno (Bologna). Datalogic has over 2000 employees worldwide in 30 countries, in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Pacific Rim.
The Group invests about €30 million per year in Research and Development and has a large and growing portfolio of more than 850 patents in the world.
In 2008, the Datalogic Group achieved revenues for more than 379 million Euro with a net profit in excess of €17 million Euro.
About Summit
Summit Data Communications, Inc. is the mobile in today’s mobile computers and other business-critical mobile devices. Summit’s embedded Wi-Fi solutions provide secure, reliable connections in the challenging environments in which business-critical mobile devices operate, including factories, warehouses, ports, hospitals, and retail stores.
Wi-Fi® is a registered trademark and Wi-Fi Protected Access and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED are trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Cisco® and Cisco Systems® are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc..
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