Axis Unveils Complete System Solution for Local Mobile Networks

Axis Communications is introducing its Mobile Access Server that will become the heart of the Axis solution for local mobile networks with Axis access points. The launch is taking place at the CeBIT trade show where Axis also is demonstrating how a user can move freely between a BluetoothÔ network and a mobile phone network without losing contact with the Internet. Axis is also showing advanced positioning services and an application for customer relationship management system.

Axis' Mobile Access Server enables anyone from a single person, or a small to a massive corporation, to become their own mobile Internet Service Provider. The system can handle positioning data, user identification and increased security, as well as billing interfaces. The server is being displayed with full functionality for the first time at CeBIT. It will be available to selected Axis partners during the second quarter of this year.

Axis' Mobile Access Server is created to handle mobile Internet service via access points for unlicensed radio technologies. In its initial commercial version the server will be adapted for both Bluetooth wireless technology and the WLAN 802.11 standard.

To clearly demonstrate the possibilities being offered with an Axis local mobile network solution, Axis in cooperation with its subsidiary, Netch Technologies, is showing a number of different applications during the CeBIT show. Together with Columbitech, Axis will show how a user can move freely between a Bluetooth network and a mobile telecommunications network without losing the connection with the Internet - using Columbitech Wireless VPN to create so-called seamless network roaming. This has never been demonstrated by anyone up to now and represents a technological breakthrough in the field of mobile Internet applications. During the trade show the demonstration will take place between a Bluetooth network and GSM, but it also functions with GPRSand UMTS when they are available. Columbitech will also demonstrate this capability with Axis at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas (20-22 March booth 8167-E) with a CDPD network and a Bluetooth network.

With a mobile application developed by Netch Axis will together with the partners Kipling and Starcus show how positioning in a Bluetooth network can be combined with GSM positioning. This means that the user can be offered local services that take the user's position into account also outside of a Bluetooth network.

As a third example of use, Axis and the eon company will demonstrate a customer relationship management (CRM) system. This can quickly and conveniently be integrated in a mobile local network to create customer-specific services.

Axis will be at Stand G62, Hall 11, during the entire CeBit show, March 22 through March 28. Bluetooth access points from Axis will also be represented by other exhibitors. These include Minolta (hall 1), Xircom (hall 11), Ricoh Europe (hall 1), Sharp (hall 1), Canon (hall 1) and Toshiba (hall 1).

For more information please contact:
Torbjörn Wård, General Manager Mobile Internet Division, Axis Communications
Phone: + 46 733- 22 46 08
E-mail: torbjorn.ward@axis.com

Anne Rhenman, Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, Axis Communications
Phone: + 46 708-90 18 29
E-mail: anne.rhenman@axis.com

Netch Technologies: Peter Thorman, COO, Netch Technologies, peter.thorman@netch.se
Phone: + 46 708-39 59 71, URL: www.netch.com

Columbitech: Lars Lavén, Deputy Director of Software Development, lars.laven@columbitech.com
Phone: + 46 70-776 51 46, URL: www.columbitech.com

Kipling: Ulf Hammarberg, MD Kipling Systems AB, ulf.hammarberg@kipling.se
Tele: + 46 709-37 95 63 URL: www.kipling.se

Starcus: Henrik Landahl, CEO, henrik.landahl@starcus.se
Phone: + 46 708-52 62 9, URL: www.starcus.se

the eon company: Per Edström, VP Business Development, per.edstrom@eoncompany.com Phone: + 1 212 563 4812, URL: www.eoncompany.com

About Axis
The Axis Communications Group, with the parent company Axis AB, is a leader in network connectivity and emerging wireless Internet based services. The company is at the forefront of developing network appliance solutions that enable people and organizations to get easy and immediate access to devices and services. Axis is one of the global leaders in several key thin server and network device markets, such as printer, storage and video connectivity, and is doing pioneering work in the rapidly expanding markets of wireless and mobile communications.

Founded in 1984, Axis employs more than 500 people worldwide, including the 50 percent owned subsidiary, Netch Technologies. The group had a turnover of approximately 695 MSEK in the financial year 1999/2000. Axis is headquartered in Lund, Sweden and has a total of 28 offices throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Axis is a publicly traded company on the OM Stockholm Exchange's O-list.
Information about Axis can be found at http://www.axis.

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