NetMotion Wireless Receives Coveted Network Computing Magazine Well-Connected Award

Mobility XE wins Mobile Application Gateways category; new category recognizes the growing importance of enterprise mobile computing

Seattle, WA - NetMotion Wireless announced today that NetMotion Mobility XE received the Network Computing 2005 Well-Connected Award in the new Mobile Application Gateways category. The Well-Connected Awards are especially coveted and respected by the IT community for their objectivity and basis in testing that reflects real-world conditions.

“The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. These awards take the pulse of the technology industry and reflect the best of what IT has to offer,” said Fritz Nelson, VP and Group Publisher of the Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. “This is an important distinction from any other award program - the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards are unique because they have been graded with the same criteria IT professionals use to make purchasing decisions - truly the most outstanding products and services available.”

By including the Mobile Application Gateways category in its awards for the first time, Network Computing is recognizing the growing importance of mobile computing for large enterprises. Mobility XE plays an essential role in enterprise mobile computing by enabling mobile workers with the secure, reliable, always-on connections they need and expect.

“We are honored to be recognized by Network Computing,” stated Bob Hunsberger, CEO of NetMotion Wireless. “It validates what our customers have been telling us about their actual deployments and experiences in the field. It’s well-documented that productivity gains can be realized through mobile computing. And, as the tests have shown, Mobility XE is the product that makes mobile computing practical and manageable for large enterprises.”

The magazine’s technical editors judged Mobility XE best in the industry based on the results of a head-to-head comparison of Mobility XE and its competitors. Extensive testing was conducted in the Network Computing labs, and the results published in the April 14, 2005 issue. Final scores were based on a weighting system that reflects the relative importance of key parameters for enterprise users.

The reviewers singled out NetMotion Mobility XE for its superior management interface; robust policy management, which affords extremely granular control over user and application access to wireless networks; and scalability and failover capability. Especially significant, reviewers found Mobility XE was the only product that keeps application sessions alive when client devices suspend or enter areas with no wireless coverage. This capability effectively eliminates the application crashes that can otherwise plague wireless deployments, and is a critical feature for enterprises moving existing wired applications into wireless environments.

NetMotion Wireless customers have adopted Mobility XE as an integral part of their mobile computing deployments. Mobility solves the essential problems of mobile computing: application access and performance, roaming, network security, and centralized management of complex, multi-network deployments. Benefits include increased employee productivity and reduced IT administrative costs and resources.

About NetMotion Wireless Inc.
NetMotion Wireless is the developer of Mobility XE, an easily deployed, software-only mobile computing solution that enables mobile workers to get connected and stay connected to mission-critical applications over wireless networks. NetMotion Mobility XE enables mobile workers to operate as effectively on wireless networks as they do on wired ones - with secure, uninterrupted access to the same data and applications available on their desktop PCs. Nearly 600 leading organizations now use Mobility to eliminate the frustration and complexity of managing their mobile computing deployments. For more information about NetMotion Wireless or its products, please visit www.netmotionwireless.com, call (206) 691-5500, or write 701 N. 34th Street, Suite 250, Seattle, Wash. 98103.

About Network Computing
For IT, By IT, Network Computing (www.networkcomputing.com), published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, N.Y., is dedicated to providing critical analysis of technologies, vendors and products to 220,000 IT Managers and Staff who are accountable for strategic technology purchase decisions. In 2003, Network Computing won a total of four awards from the American Society of Business Publications Editors (ASBPE), including a national award in the Best Technical Article category.