GEOWIRELESS AND VIVATO PROVIDE KATRINA RELIEF
Geowireless selects Vivato Wi-Fi Base Stations for Mobile Communications and Command System; Providing Stable VoIP and Data Communication Infrastructure

SPOKANE, WA, September 15, 2005 -GeoWireless, a wireless-anywhere provider, has teamed with Vivato, Inc., a leading provider of extended-range Wi-Fi solutions, to dispatch mobile communications systems to the Mississippi Gulf coast and surrounding areas to provide Hurricane Katrina relief assistance. On August 30th, 2005, federal government officials requested the assistance of GeoWireless to provide mobile voice and data solutions in the Gulf region. In two days, GeoWireless had "feet on the street" and state-of-the-art mobile network communications fully functional. GeoWireless, with their teaming partners Vivato, WareOnEarth Communications and Agiosat, brought full DS-3 satellite services and large coverage Wi-Fi wireless access to support Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony and data communications to the federal government's relief and communications efforts.

The devastation in the Gulf has severely impacted voice and data communications for the residents of Mississippi and Louisiana in every aspect of life. Communications and coordination of resources is critically important to stabilizing this area and providing logistical data and information to fulfill the needs of the region. GeoWireless President, John Hearton, stated, "We're honored to be able to help the region with some of the services that people typically take for granted. This effort is essential to improving quality of life and providing the government with vital communications capabilities needed to support environmental issues, and could even help save lives. We want to do what we can to support the revitalization of the region".

This effort was not done solely by GeoWireless. Mr. Hearton added, "When we needed to respond, our partners rose to the call of action. I cannot tell you how impressed I was with the response from our partners. The service that the government received was second to none. Within 30 minutes of arriving, the team was able to make VoIP phone calls over the mobile system." Mr. Hearton stated, "This is the type of service our customers have come to expect, and our engineers live up to that reputation and commitment with every deployment."

Vivato provided Wi-Fi base stations that enabled the mobile communication system to extend a large Wi-Fi hot zone over several miles. By using several of these base stations, GeoWireless was able to provide a wireless broadband zone that gave internet connectivity to government officials and supported the use of VoIP phones for voice communications. "We selected Vivato because their unique Wi-Fi solution gave us such a large coverage area while providing full 802.11g 54Mbps connections. These voice and data applications require large bandwidth and coverage," Mr. Hearton said, "Any of the regular mesh access point solutions out there would have limited the coverage area that we could support and usually have much smaller bandwidth."

"We are very happy to help GeoWireless with Katrina relief efforts", said Glenn Booth, Director of Marketing for Vivato. "We are also grateful that our technology can be used to help rebuild the Gulf region. Our extended-range Wi-Fi base stations are a perfect fit for high bandwidth, rapid networks that need to be quickly deployed." Booth said.

About GeoWireless
GeoWireless, a subsidiary of NETSEC Consulting, delivers state-of-the-art wireless technologies and mobile communications to industry and government. These technologies are tailored to meet customer requirements including mobility. GeoWireless personnel are industry-recognized trained professionals that sit on a variety of networking advisory panels including architecture, security, performance and advanced technologies. The leadership team alone has over 100 years of combined experience in communications technologies. For more information, please visit www.geowireless.net or call 703-472-3350.

About Vivato
Vivato, Inc. is a wireless systems infrastructure company with technology that is based upon an innovative signal processing and antenna design. Vivato's unique system architecture enables cost-effective, large-scale indoor and outdoor wireless deployments in cities and towns, as well as airports, seaports, warehouses, universities, enterprises and hotels. Vivato is headquartered in Spokane, Washington. For more information, please visit www.vivato.com or call 509-343-6001.

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