Ascom wins first major order for VoWiFi Systems

Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) in Miami chose the Ascom i75 VoWiFi handset for six hospitals in South Florida. The total amount of all contracts will be about USD 2 million.

Ascom (US) Inc. announces a major deployment of VoWiFi systems at Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) in Miami. BHSF plans to replace three thousand existing phones across their six hospital campus with the Ascom FreeNet i75 standards based device. The total amount of all contracts will be about USD 2 million until mid-year 2008.

BHSF chose the Ascom i75 VoWiFi handset for its robust design, extensive feature set and integration capability. Ascom’s FreeNet VoWiFi system, combined with the UNITE Messaging Suite delivers mission-critical messages, alerts and data from virtually any healthcare information systems directly to the handset. Once installed over the six hospital organization, the BHSF VoWiFi system will be one of the largest VoWiFi deployments in the US.

“We needed an on-site wireless communication system that would provide us seamless mobility throughout our entire hospital chain” says Gilberto Albornoz, Director of Telecom and Network Infrastructure, BHSF. “Ascom’s ability to easily integrate voice and messaging was exactly what we were looking for.”

About Baptist Health South Florida
Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) is the largest not-for-profit health care organization in the region. Affiliates of the Baptist Health include Baptist Hospital of Miami, Baptist Children's Hospital, South Miami Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital, Doctors Hospital and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute. Baptist Health also offers a variety of health care services, such as outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities and home health care. www.baptisthealth.net

About Ascom
Ascom is an international solution provider with comprehensive technological know-how in Mission-Critical Communication. The company concentrates on the core areas of Wireless Solutions (high-value, customer-specific on-site communications solutions) and Security Solutions (applications for security, communication, automation and control systems for infrastructure operators, public security institutions and the army). With a wealth of experience in implementing complex projects for discerning customers, Ascom has established itself in important key markets.

Offerings range from analysis and consulting to system design and system integration, project management, engineering and implementation, right through to maintenance and support. The company has subsidiaries in 18 countries and a workforce of some 2,400 employees worldwide. Ascom registered shares (ASCN) are listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in Zurich.

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