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Nokia joins Wireless LAN Allicance (WLANA) as new member
June 21, 1999
Nokia adds their commimtemt to WLANA's educational effort for wireless local area networking market
The Wireless LAN Alliance (WLANA), an educational trade association for the wireless local area networking industry, announced today that Nokia has joined WLANA as a member.
"The Wireless LAN Alliance welcomes Nokia to our organization," said Mack Sullivan, managing director of WLANA. "Nokia's commitment to industry growth and their enthusiasm for our educational mission will strengthen WLANA's ability to deliver materials explaining the applications, issues and trends in the wireless local area networking market".
"We feel that Nokia's membership in WLANA will be mutually beneficial," said Vesa Walldén, Vice President Marketing, Nokia Wireless Business Communications. "In the last three years, WLANA has established itself as the recognized source of educational information on the wireless local area networking marketplace. WLANA's industry studies, application stories and white papers provide a service to potential and current users of our products. Joining WLANA is an important step for Nokia in raising industry-wide awareness of wireless LAN technology, while separately Nokia pursues our efforts to promote Nokia's IP Mobility vision."
About Nokia
Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. Nokia recently announced a line of wireless LAN products. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges, has sales in over 130 countries and employs more than 47,000 people worldwide.
About WLANA
The Wireless LAN Alliance is a non-profit educational trade association, comprised leading wireless LAN vendors. WLANA provides a clearinghouse of information about wireless local area networking applications, issues and trends and serves as a resource to customers and prospects of wireless local area products and to industry press and analysts. The Alliance maintains an educational web site at www.wlana.com with industry studies, white papers, application stories and links to related topics and member web sites. During the last quarter of 1998, the Alliance commissioned a study to research the return-on-investment associated with the implementation of wireless LANs in five separate industries.
To obtain an executive summary of these ROI study results, or to obtain additional information about WLANA, please view our web site, www.wlana.com, write to the Wireless LAN Alliance at; 1114 Sherman Avenue, St. Simons Island, GA 31522, or send an email to, info@wlana.com.
Current WLANA members include:
3Com Corporation www.3com.com
Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. www.aironet.com
BreezeCom Inc.www.breezecom.com
Cabletron Systems, Inc. www.cabletron.com/wireless
Harris Semiconductor www.semi.harris.com
Intermec Technologies www.intermec.com
Lucent Technologies www.wavelan.com
Nokia www.nokia.com
Nortel Networks Wireless LAN Group www.nortelnetworks.com
Symbol Technologies, Inc. www.symbol.com
Contact information:
WLANA Media Contact:
Richard Henderson
Porchivina & Associates Public Relations
Tel: +1 415 893 1891
Fax: +1 415 893 8185
E-mail: rich@papr.com
WLANA Contact:
Mack Sullivan, Managing Director
Wireless LAN Allicance (WLANA)
Tel: +1 912 634 6527
Fax: +1 912 634 1674
E-mail: mack@wlana.com
NOKIA Contact:
Vesa Walldén, Vice President
Nokia Wireless Business Communications
Enterprise Solutions
Tel: +358 50 358 3864
Fax: +358 3 318 3650
e-mail: vesa.wallden@nokia.com
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