Goteborg, Sweden
6 April 2009

Siemens Enterprise Communications and Ascom (US) Inc. Partner to Provide Seamless Mission Critical Wireless Solutions

Ascom and Siemens solutions combine to help Healthcare providers utilize Unified Communications and Mobility to access and receive critical information at the point of care

BOCA RATON, Fla. — April 6, 2009 — Ascom Wireless Solutions and Siemens Enterprise Communications Group in North America today announced they have entered into a partnership where together they can better serve their customers with industry-leading, end-to-end wireless solutions.  Combining Siemens HiPath® Wireless with Ascom’s VoWiFi and IP-DECT devices facilitates seamless, mission critical, on-site wireless voice and text communications.

Siemens delivers a comprehensive WLAN/FMC portfolio, leading VoWLAN performance, and the capability to enable multiple mobile business process solutions on a single infrastructure.  The Ascom devices will be an integral client option in Siemens Unified Communications strategy, providing for the convergence of functionality designed to significantly improve the effectiveness of the healthcare clinician.

Ascom is a leader in the field of mobile work-place telephony for voice and critical data, with standards-based, purpose-built VoWiFi and IP-DECT devices that offer the very highest levels of convenience, functionality and flexibility.

“We are particularly pleased by what this partnership will allow us to offer our healthcare customers”, states Jeffrey Forbes, Vice President, Siemens Healthcare Sales.  “By combining Siemens Wireless solutions with Ascom’s mission critical devices, we will enable a richer user experience and assist healthcare providers to make more informed and effective decisions by providing critical, time-sensitive information at the point of patient care.  Our combined solutions will help our healthcare customers to improve care delivery and increase patient satisfaction.”

“Ascom wireless handsets have the features, functionality and reliability required in today’s healthcare environments. Our purpose-built devices provide clinicians access to significantly more complex and diverse media content,” says Tom McKearney, EVP Marketing & Business Development, Ascom (US), Inc. “Integrating Siemens and Ascom solutions will help our healthcare customers get the right information to the right people - wherever they are.”

For more information please contact:
Tom McKearney, EVP Marketing & Business Development, Ascom US Inc.
Phone: 919-234-2507
Email: Tom.McKearney@ascomwireless.com

ÜBER ASCOM

Ascom ist ein internationaler Lösungsanbieter mit umfassendem Technologie-Know-how in Mission-Critical Communication. Das Unternehmen konzentriert sich auf die Kernbereiche Wireless Solutions (hochstehende, kundenspezifische Onsite-Kommunikationslösungen), Network Testing (ein weltweiter Marktführer für Optimierungslösungen von Mobilfunknetzen) sowie Security Communication (Anwendungen für Sicherheit, Kommunikation und Leitsysteme für Infrastrukturbetreiber, öffentliche Sicherheitsinstitutionen und die Armee). Das Unternehmen unterhält Niederlassungen in 20 Ländern und beschäftigt weltweit rund 2'300 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Die Ascom Namenaktien (Symbol ASCN) sind in Zürich an der SIX Swiss Exchange kotiert.

About Siemens Enterprise Communications

The SEN Group is a premier provider of enterprise communications solutions. More than 14,000 employees in 80 countries carry on the tradition of voice and data excellence started more than 160 years ago with Werner von Siemens and the invention of the pointer telegraph. Today the company leads the market with its "Open Communications" approach that enables teams working within any IT infrastructure to improve productivity through a unified collaboration experience.

SEN Group is a joint venture between the private equity firm, The Gores Group, and Siemens AG and incorporates Siemens Enterprise Communications, Enterasys Networks, SER Solutions, Cycos and iSEC. In fiscal 2008, The SEN Group generated revenues of approximately 3.21 billion Euros.

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