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AirMagnet's Award-Winning Laptop Analyzer Now Available on the Apple MacBook Pro
[February 19, 2008]

AirMagnet's Award-Winning Laptop Analyzer Now Available on the Apple MacBook Pro


SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- AirMagnet Inc., the leader in security, performance and compliance solutions for wireless LANs, today announced that AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer is now supported on the Apple MacBook Pro. This new platform support allows IT managers or wireless professionals using Apple laptops to leverage the industry's most popular mobile field tool for auditing and troubleshooting wireless enterprise networks.



AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer works with Windows XP Professional running on Apple's MAC OS X Leopard using Boot Camp. With the built-in Airport Extreme 802.11 a/b/g/Draft-n adapter support, AirMagnet now provides complete dual-band (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) monitoring of 802.11n networks. In addition, Apple users benefit from the full range of automated AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer functions, including compliance report generation, live network testing and the ability to automatically detect and quickly defend the network from rogues, hackers and other vulnerabilities.

Recent research from IDC shows Apple's overall market share for computers has increased dramatically, placing them in third place overall among computer manufacturers in the U.S. In addition, as of June 2007, the company has an overall market share of 17.6 percent for notebook computers. The company also experienced a 42 percent increase in laptop sales in its most recent quarter.


"Apple is gaining significant momentum in the market and we've definitely seen an increase in customer requests to support the MacBook Pro," said Chris Roeckl, vice president of marketing at AirMagnet. "We're really excited to offer this new Apple support, which allows users to experience our award-winning wireless solutions on a MacBook."

AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer is the industry's most popular tool for auditing and troubleshooting enterprise Wi-Fi networks. It proactively diagnoses WLAN problems by scanning and analyzing live wireless traffic from all APs and stations within the local environment, while automatically detecting security threats and other wireless network vulnerabilities. The product allows organizations to get the maximum value from their WLAN and resolve problems quickly and effectively, with simple analysis and compliance reporting.

For more information about AirMagnet and Apple support, please visit www.airmagnet.com.

About AirMagnet Inc.

AirMagnet Inc. is the leader in security, performance and compliance solutions for wireless LANs. The company's innovative products include AirMagnet Enterprise, the leading 24x7 WLAN security and performance management solution, and AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer - which is known as the "de facto tool for wireless LAN troubleshooting and analysis." Other products provide WLAN site survey and design, RF interference detection, remote diagnostics, and the world's first voice over WiFi analysis solution. AirMagnet has more than 7,500 customers worldwide, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.AirMagnet.com.

(C)2008 AirMagnet Inc. All rights reserved. AirMagnet(R) and AirWISE(R) are registered trademarks, and the AirMagnet logo is a trademark, of AirMagnet Inc. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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