Mountain View , CA : 11/24/2006 -- Omnitrol Networks, Inc. today announced it has named David Orain as vice president of marketing, reporting to Raj Saksena, president and chief executive officer.

David Orain is now responsible for Omnitrol Networks’ marketing organization helping customers address the growing complexity of intelligent edge device network integration. His responsibilities include strategic, channel and product marketing.

“I’m excited to join the team as we focus on market expansion through product innovation that is changing the way enterprises will integrate edge devices, operational intelligence and backend applications. As existing applications and networks were not designed with a proliferation of intelligent edge devices in mind, Omnitrol has engineered an appliance that combines networking and intelligent service creation and deployment capabilities to help companies extend their IP networks towards real-time intelligent sensors, RFID and WiFi networks,” David Orain said.

David was Director of Strategy and Marketing for the Communications industry group at Sun Microsystems where he successfully repositioned the company in the OSS/BSS, SDP, IMS and wireless data markets. During his tenure at Sun, David held technical and sales management positions including head of the team developing Sun's telecom solutions. Prior to joining Sun, David held engineering positions at TCSI in San Jose. He worked for Alcatel in France leading the engineering team on optical network management platforms. David was also part of the research team at IBM in Germany that pioneered object-oriented design and development in the next generation network management systems.

David holds a Master of Computer Sciences from Nancy, France and a Certificate of Business Administration from UC Berkeley.

“We're thrilled that David is bringing his expertise to our senior team, he has a great track record of taking innovative solutions to market,” said Raj Saksena. “His vast experience in business development, sales and marketing strategy combined with his networking background, enable him to aggressively lead Omnitrol’s growth as we expand our business and further leverage our successes”.

About OMNITROL Networks
OMNITROL Networks Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented edge network platform solutions for the emerging extended-Internet (X-Internet) deployment market. The company's OMNITROL appliance and EASE™ edge application and services engine software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time asset visibility and industrial automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture enables the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy distributed application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. OMNITROL Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, California . Additional information about OMNITROL Network's products and services are available at www.omnitrol.com.

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Mountain View , CA : 6/8/2006 - OMNITROL Networks Inc., an emerging leader in the RFID industry today announced its pioneering all-in-one, service-oriented edge appliance, the OMNITROL. It is the industry’s first intelligent, telco-grade network platform that radically simplifies deployment and transforms the edge infrastructure into an “always on” mission-critical, business process network without the need for middleware, or extensive backend customization. This edge-centric approach completely changes deployment economics by providing a substantially easier and more powerful means to integrate and manage RFID edge networks.

All-in-one solution reduces risk in RFID deployment

The OMNITROL enables companies to dramatically reduce the risk of incorporating RFID into their business by delivering a new level in integration. Whether they are seeking compliance with mandates, or an easy path to deploy and rapidly realize RFID business value the OMNITROL solves their deployment requirements. “Our goal is to provide the market with the most powerful, flexible, and easiest means to integrate and use RFID. Our all-in-one edge platform solution is designed to accelerate adoption by dramatically reducing complexity and cost of integration and management.” said Raj Saksena, CEO of OMNITROL Networks.

Edge solution eliminates need for complex and costly middleware and backend customization

For RFID to become more widely deployed, integration complexity must be eliminated. “Today’s back-end-centric middleware solutions are too expensive and cumbersome, RFID was never intended to displace, or radically change tried and trusted backend systems. The high risk associated with first generation RFID middleware solutions introduced a great deal of complexity creating unmanageable ROI and driving up TCO.

RFID was intended to do the exact opposite, enabling real-time information exchange and optimizing supply chain logistics and business processes. In order to successfully leverage RFID, RFID data should be contained at the edge insulating back-end systems”, according to Raj Saksena, CEO of OMNITROL Networks. “A number of enterprises have led the charge in pilots where they have unfortunately had to make large investments in back-end customization and middleware integration. But for the vast majority of companies in the global supply-chain the idea of customizing legacy back-end systems is not feasible.

The OMNITROL is based on an edge-centric solution architecture that is distinct from both middleware solutions and other edge device approaches. Middleware dominant solutions introduce complexity and multiple points of failure to the network architecture increasing unnecessary business risk with significant setup and ownership costs. In contrast, the OMNITROL solution delivers a more subtle, evolutionary next-generation network appliance encapsulating all RFID processing and management, thereby dramatically reducing set-up and support costs and eliminating custom back-end development. RFID business values can be realized incrementally, minimizing risks and costs while accelerating deployment throughout the supply chain. With the OMNITROL, the network is the middleware.

Deployment-in-a-box Solution

The OMNITROL deployment-in-a-box solution comprises the four essential components necessary to evolve the network infrastructure to efficiently and economically deploy RFID sensors and telco-grade edge services on a broad-scale.

• All-in-one, high-performance, multi-processing, industrial-strength appliance providing complete edge-of-the-enterprise integration for all network edge devices including edge servers, Ethernet switches, WiFi access, serial-port concentrators and sensor interconnect devices.
• Powerful, yet easy to use service creation, business process integration, and provisioning with EASE TM (Edge Application and Services Engine), where customers rapidly transform their workflow into powerful, and flexible, edge services to deliver RFID business process optimization.
• “Always On” scalable edge service delivery via a federated, secure, peer-to-peer edge services network to support mission-critical supply chain logistics and business workflow services (for example, Shipping Accuracy (in/out), Track & Trace, automatic reconciliation, EPC ALE, etc.).
• Telco-grade, service and device management, and reliability utilizing standards-based SNMP, and web-based console.

Pricing and availability

This high-performance solution-in-a-box enables complete mandate/EPC compliance, with the ability to scale to item-level RFID processing. Solutions start at $12,900.