Polaris Wireless Selects GoAhead OpenSAFfire to Enhance Its OmniLocate Wireless Location Platform

Selection of High Availability Solution Ensures Increased Reliability for Public Safety and Other Mission Critical Wireless Location Applications

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GoAhead® Software, the worldwide leader in middleware for embedded systems, today announced that Polaris Wireless, the global leader in high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, has selected GoAhead’s OpenSAFfire to help ensure system uptime and uninterrupted service for the company’s OmniLocate wireless location platform.

“With the increased focus on wireless location for public safety and mission critical applications, such as enhanced 911, leveraging standardized solutions like OpenSAFfire enables us to ensure the availability and reliability of the OmniLocate platform when it is most needed”

“With the increased focus on wireless location for public safety and mission critical applications, such as enhanced 911, leveraging standardized solutions like OpenSAFfire enables us to ensure the availability and reliability of the OmniLocate platform when it is most needed,” said Zaheer Allam, senior vice-president of telecom products at Polaris Wireless. “In addition, GoAhead is providing us with a robust set of professional services and consulting to compress our development timelines even further. Their deep expertise in high availability technology and the adoption of their solutions by other industry leaders make GoAhead the natural choice.”

Polaris Wireless OmniLocate is a standards-based platform with the patented Polaris WLS™ technology that offers the industry’s highest location accuracy, especially in urban and indoor environments. Polaris Wireless is partnering with GoAhead as part of its ongoing investment in providing wireless network operators a carrier-grade solution for their mission-critical public safety and other location-based services. The selection of OpenSAFfire demonstrates the company’s commitment to implementing best-in-class solutions.

“We are extremely pleased to see an innovator such as Polaris Wireless choose OpenSAFfire for its location platform,” said Asif Naseem, GoAhead’s president and COO. “The real-time demands of high-accuracy wireless location highlight the strengths of OpenSAFfire. We are excited to be partnering with Polaris Wireless as it enhances its platform and expands its business. We look forward to a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship.”

Polaris Wireless’ choice of OpenSAFfire is one of the six OpenSAFfire design wins that GoAhead announced last month. The company announced passing the 100,000 deployments milestone in that same news release.

About GoAhead Software

GoAhead Software is the worldwide leader in commercial off-the-shelf solutions for equipment manufacturers who recognize that scarce development resources should be allocated to building applications and not infrastructure. Our software platform includes high availability middleware to ensure 99.999% availability of applications as well as a management infrastructure for networked devices that require multiple management interfaces. GoAhead’s leadership and commitment to Service Availability Forum standards prevent vendor lock-in and ensures application portability across different hardware and software platforms. Proven in over 100,000 deployments, GoAhead is helping industry leaders such as Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman reduce development costs and accelerate time to delivery. For more information, visit www.goahead.com.

About Polaris Wireless

Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Polaris Wireless is the global leader in providing high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement/government agencies and location-based application companies. Since 2003, Polaris has successfully deployed its patented, software-based, high-accuracy location solutions to over 20 wireless operators to meet FCC E911 Phase II requirements in the US. The company has also deployed high-accuracy location surveillance applications for customers in Asia and EMEA. Polaris Wireless has offices in Dubai, U.A.E., Bangalore, India, Tokyo, Japan, and Santiago, Chile.

The company participates in location committees and other groups within the 3GPP and OMA standards setting bodies, and also participates in regulatory and industry bodies related to E911, lawful location surveillance, and location-based services. Polaris Wireless is located at 301 North Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. For more information about Polaris Wireless, please visit http://www.polariswireless.com.