Press Release: LEADING WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF PATIENT MONITORING TECHNOLOGY TURNS TO TRAPEZE NETWORKS FOR NONSTOP WIRELESS

Dräger Medical Certifies Trapeze Networks Products Interoperable

PLEASANTON, Calif., August 4, 2008 – Dräger Medical, an international leader in the fields of medical and safety, has certified interoperability between Dräger’s line of Infinity patient monitoring equipment and Trapeze Networks’ line of NonStop Wireless networking.

In Dräger’s notice of certification, Lars Roth of Dräger’s Monitoring Systems and IT group, wrote, “Due to the critical nature of medical devices, Dräger Medical tests and verifies network hardware components used for communication between medical system devices. These tests include proper IP Multicast handling, wireless roaming, wireless encryption and load testing. In addition, tests with competing traffic are run in order to understand and detect the proper Quality of Service settings. These are the key parameters that will ensure that in a shared Infinity OneNet installation, the data flow of the Dräger patient monitors is being prioritized over non-patient monitor data.”

“People kick around the words ‘mission-critical’ until the expression is meaningless,” said Ahmet Tuncay, executive vice president of product management and business development at Trapeze Networks. “For Dräger, mission-critical means monitoring patients in the ER, ICU, OR, and everywhere in between. Dräger has pioneered mobile patient monitoring and is turning to the leader in NonStop Wireless, Trapeze Networks, for wireless infrastructure. --That’s mission critical.”

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