Sierra Wireless’ AirCard Receives 1997 Top Product Award from Wireless for the Corporate User
VANCOUVER, B.C. — September 16, 1997 — The PC Card cell phone/modem selected as best Mobile Modem by the noted wireless publication.
Sierra Wireless, Inc. announced today that AirCard has won the Wireless for the Corporate User 1997 Top Product in the Mobile Modems category.
The "Mobile Modems" category includes all eligible wireless and land-line modems, pitting Sierra against some of the industries top modem manufacturers. This is Wireless for the Corporate User's second annual Top Products awards, featuring some of the most influential wireless and mobile user devices released by leading suppliers in the last 12 months.
A PC Card modem and PC Card cell phone solution, AirCard allows notebook computer users to easily implement a wireless computing solution with minimal configuration. AirCard fits into any laptop computer with Type II PC Card slots and is powered directly through the computer's PC Card connector. Nothing protrudes out of the computer except AirCard's retractable, removable antenna.
"A few other companies have tried to pull off the cell-phone- as-a-PC-Card trick," notes Wireless for the Corporate User Top Products judge and Farpoint Group principal, Craig Mathias, "but Sierra Wireless has really done it."
The Wireless for the Corporate User 1997 Top Products awards were voted on by a panel of recognized wireless and mobile industry experts, including Tom Esperson, the associate director for mobile computing and communications for Boston, Mass.-based Yankee Group; Andrew Seybold, editor of Andrew Seybold's Outlook on Communications and Computing; John Jerney, of California-based Volksware, Inc.; and Chander Dhawan, of Toronto-based DOLNET Mobile Information Services. This is the third major award for Sierra Wireless this year.
In addition, Sierra Wireless received "New Venture of the Year Award" presented by the Technology Industries Association of British Columbia (BC-TIA) and the 1997 Mobile Insights Mobility Award for "Best PC Card." Mobile Insights, an influential Mountain View, CA-based analyst and consulting firm, presents the annual Mobility Awards to products that have helped to change the landscape of mobile computing and wireless data communications.
"By reducing the cellular phone into a Type II PC card format, Sierra Wireless has created something really unique," notes Andrew Harries, Sierra Wireless Vice President of Marketing. "Coupled with its companion modem, the laptop user has, for the first time, a fully integrated wireless and wireline solution that's simple to use. It is very gratifying to be recognized for this accomplishment and to acknowledge Compaq's role as a modem development partner."
AirCard provides users the same connections wirelessly through a notebook computer that are available on the company LAN. With AirCard, mobile workers can connect to the Internet using a cellular connection in either CDPD-packet or circuit-switched mode. AirCard takes full advantage of CDPD's Internet capability, allowing users to access email with the same email address that they use in the office. The modem card connects to the AirCard cellular card which includes a complete cellular AMPS and a data transmitter in a Type II format. The AirCard solution includes a full function 33.6 Kbps wireline and cellular modem featuring MNP10, V.42bis and ETC.
About Sierra Wireless
Sierra Wireless is a leading supplier of cellular data modems. Besides the AirCard, Sierra's product line also includes the MP200 ruggedized, 3-watt vehicle-based multimode modem, the MP200-GPS which includes a GPS receiver; the SB-220 OEM multimode module; the PocketPlus for Windows/Windows CE and the recently acquired Dart 200 and 300 CDPD telemetry and transaction modems. For more information contact: Andrew Harries, vice president of marketing, Sierra Wireless, Inc., 260-13151 Vanier Place, Richmond, BC, V6V 2V2 Phone: 604/231-1100. Fax: 604/231-1109. E- Mail: [email protected]. Internet: http://www.sierrawireless.com.
Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft, Corp. AirCard and the Sierra Wireless logo are trademarks of Sierra Wireless, Inc.
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