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October 2000
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Talarian Infrastructure Chosen to Power Locate Networks' New Nationwide Wireless Location-Based Services
Talarian Speed, Scalability, Guaranteed Message Delivery Critical in Service Designed for Real-Time Tracking of Valuables, People Talarian Corporation a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software, today announced that Locate Networks, Inc., a provider of wireless location-based services to manage and locate valuable assets and people, has selected the Talarian(TM) SmartSockets(R) middleware product to support the infrastructure of their nationwide wireless service and products.
Locate Networks integrates the ReFLEX wireless data protocol with a wireless-assisted Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to provide fast, accurate, and cost-efficient location, even indoors. Talarian's SmartSockets is the real-time publish-subscribe messaging software that enables Locate Networks to grow its infrastructure without having to rewrite or re-architect applications. This will allow Locate Networks to serve millions of people on the Internet quickly, easily and reliably.
"Location-based services are becoming increasingly important in today's world, both for personal and business use," said Tom Laffey, Chief Technology Officer of Talarian. "Talarian is pleased to be working with Locate Networks to provide their system with the reliability, speed and scalability needed to provide location services to potentially millions of users."
"We selected Talarian because they had the best solution that met our needs in terms of architecture and scalability," said Michael Crowson, co-founder and CEO of Locate Networks. "We look forward to the successful integration of their technology with our infrastructure."
Visit www.talarian.com/products/ for more details.
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