Close WindowSAN JOSE, Calif. | May 21, 2001 —As evidence of the explosive growth of the wireless telemetry market, Aeris.net, a leading provider of wireless web, machine-to-machine communications services today announced that it has surpassed the 100,000 unit mark of active wireless data devices on the Aeris.net network. With this announcement, Aeris reaffirms its status of providing the most robust, widely available and data-secure wireless telemetry network service throughout North America.
"The explosive growth of the wireless telemetry market is due in part to how quickly third-party developers can leverage Aeris's wireless telemetry services," said Wade Vesey, vice president of marketing at Aeris.net. "Although our network has quickly passed the 100,000 unit mark, Aeris employs a scalable network infrastructure that is capable to accommodate the next generation of even more demanding wireless telemetry solutions."
Paramount to the success of Aeris.net's wireless telemetry network is the need to manage thousands of data transactions that pass daily through the Aeris hub. From this data, Aeris provides its customers with real-time information via its MicroBurst® network, which performs near an uptime rating of 99.99-percent availability. In order to accomplish this in a cost-effective manner, Aeris leverages ubiquitous cellular network coverage throughout North America in order to provide highly reliable data transmissions without degradation in raw performance.
"The wireless telemetry market is booming. Almost daily, we see more and more third-party applications that remotely monitor and manage assets via a wireless telemetry network," said Andrew Seybold, Editor-in-Chief, Forbes/Andrew Seybold's Wireless Outlook. "Aeris brings an extremely powerful and flexible telemetry service to the developer community. This enables highly customized solutions to be offered to a growing number of industries at a record pace."
By leveraging Aeris.net's wireless telemetry network, application developers and their customers receive North America-wide coverage, back-end connectivity, and telemetry support. Many of Aeris.net's developers provide mission-critical monitoring for several industries, including: vehicle and asset tracking, general monitoring of fixed-location facilities, home, property and businesses security and alarm, as well as power and utility companies.
Aeris.net, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., provides wireless web connectivity and control for a broad array of short-packet signaling and messaging services using its proprietary MicroBurst utility. MicroBurst technology employs the control channel infrastructure of the cellular network as a transmission medium to achieve low cost of service and ubiquitous coverage. Aeris.net currently has contracts deploying MicroBurst technology in cellular service areas in 98 percent of the United States and all of Mexico and Canada. Initial applications include vehicle position and condition reporting, security and equipment monitoring and utility meter reading. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.aeris.net or call 888-Go-Aeris.
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