ALLENDALE, NJ; OCTOBER 17, 2005 --- Dataprobe, a leading manufacturer of innovative technology solutions for networking, systems and site management, announced today that Parco Wireless, the leading provider of wireless radio frequency identification systems (RFID) and real-time tracking technology for the healthcare industry, has successfully implemented a unique system for the remote management of an RFID wireless network project at a large Washington, D.C. healthcare facility. The project includes over 40 Dataprobe iBoots which have been dispersed throughout the facility to enable the remote management of critical equipment for the network's operation.

MedStar Health, a $2.7 billion non-profit healthcare organization and a community-based network of seven hospitals and other healthcare services in the Baltimore-Washington region, engaged New England Networking and Parco Wireless to deploy an active RFID system for accurately locating and tracking people, equipment and objects in one of its hospitals. The system is designed to track hospital assets, curb excess expenditures, increase safety and ensure security and access control by placing small radio frequency identification devices, or 'RFID tags' on people and objects.

The Parco system reports the location of the tags in real-time through a dimensional network of RFID readers, wireless servers and communications networks. The Parco system is deployed throughout the facility's 16-acre campus and on eight floors in over 40 distinctive communications closets. System administrators needed a method to quickly and efficiently manage the system remotely to ensure maximum uptime and service reliability.

"We needed the capability to monitor, and on occasion, to reboot our equipment in locked data closets in a secure environment," said Scott Cohen, CEO of Parco Wireless. "The iBoot product easily and efficiently allows us to achieve this without sending a technician to the hospital site."

The iBoot is a remote power solution designed to remotely monitor, manage and control computing devices and other electronic equipment. A single outlet power switch, the iBoot allows remote equipment to be rebooted or power controlled over an IP network using an Internet browser. Its unique auto detection capability identifies failures in any connected system by monitoring IP devices on the network. If programmed, iBoot can then perform a timed reboot or other power controlled function automatically whenever the device fails. iBoot can also be directly activated by other network management systems.

Cohen continued, "Our technicians could be called upon at all hours of the day and night and spend valuable time getting to the facility. Once there, they would have to locate the correct data closet, impose upon hospital security staff to unlock its door and then service the equipment. With Dataprobe's iBoot a Parco technician can stop, start and restart any device from any Web-enabled PC with just the click of a mouse or use the automated settings to cycle power for software updates and regular maintenance."

Peter Strome, president of New England Networking and project manager for the Parco Wireless RFID project, views the iBoot as an intelligent and inexpensive solution for keeping systems up and running for any mission critical environment. "Sending a technician out in the middle of the night on a service call to the facility is very expensive," explains Strome. "Labor and related travel costs can easily add up and with the time it takes to dispatch a technician to the site and resolve the issue, the facility's equipment and patients are vulnerable while the systems are offline."

"The iBoot is an intelligent and inexpensive solution," says David Weiss, president of Dataprobe. "It performs the exact functions that administrators need and costs only $275 in comparison to a single service call which could cost upwards of $1000. In addition, what the iBoot does in less than 30 seconds, could take hours with a traditional service call, causing lengthy service disruptions, loss of work productivity and exposing companies to security risks."

The iBoot is available directly from Dataprobe at dataprobe.com or through authorized resellers.

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