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Wavelink Extends Enterprise Device Management to Include POS and Tethered Scanners

Wavelink Avalanche to manage Datalogic™ retail scanners

MIDVALE, UTAH — AUG. 25, 2009 — Wavelink Corporation and Datalogic Scanning today announced the two companies have joined together to offer a remote management solution for Datalogic’s fixed position point-of-sale (POS) and handheld bar code scanners. Datalogic customers can now use Wavelink® Avalanche Mobility Center (MC), to remotely access and centrally manage Datalogic scanners from a host terminal.

Typically, retailers have required an IT person to physically tend to each scanner in order to update them. With centralized management from Avalanche MC, administrators can remotely update the firmware for all of their scanners and collect usage statistics and health information, resulting in significant time and cost savings.

“We are always trying to find ways to add value for our customers and help them gain new operational efficiencies,” said Pietro Todescato, GM of Handheld Products at Datalogic Scanning. “Remote device management is a great way to control maintenance costs of the increasingly complex POS ecosystem, while providing a simpler way to exploit advanced capabilities in today’s scanners such as productivity reporting or cashier training.”

Lamar Van Wagenen, president of Wavelink, said, “This represents a great extension of the relationship Wavelink has enjoyed with Datalogic, which has benefited our existing customers as well as helped us both attract new customers. This cooperative solution also demonstrates the management scope of Avalanche MC to extend beyond mobile devices to fixed devices.”

For more information about mobile solutions from Wavelink, please visit http://www.wavelink.com/solutions.aspx.

About Wavelink
Founded in 1992, Wavelink Corporation is the leading provider of multi-vendor mobile application development and mobile device and infrastructure management software. Wavelink’s technology solves the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling auto-ID data collection (AIDC) systems and RFID, and facilitates peak performance from frontline staff. Wavelink’s emulation product family is the industry standard in providing host connectivity solutions. More than 10,000 companies in the retail, manufacturing, government and logistics industries rely on Wavelink to accelerate application delivery, reduce device management and support costs, and tighten network security. For more information, please visit www.wavelink.com or call 888-697-9283 from the USA and Canada or +800-9283-5465 outside the USA and Canada.

About Datalogic Scanning
Datalogic Scanning is the recognized #1 worldwide leader in high-performance fixed position retail point-of-sale scanners and the #1 provider of handheld scanners in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), with the most complete line of general purpose and ruggedized handheld scanners available today. Headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, Datalogic Scanning, a division of the Datalogic Group, serves multiple industries throughout the retail supply chain and distribution channel as well as manufacturing, government, healthcare, banking and finance sectors with a presence in over 120 countries.

For additional information about Datalogic Scanning products, please visit www.scanning.datalogic.com, email scanning@datalogic.com, or call +1-800-695-5700 (toll-free in the USA only) or +1-541-683-5700.  Datalogic and the Datalogic logo are registered trademarks of Datalogic S.p.A. in many countries, including the U.S.A. and the E.U.

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Media Contacts:
Rod Anderson
SNG PR for Wavelink
801-208-1100
rod.anderson@sng.com
www.sng.com

Pam McQueen
Datalogic
541-302-2012
Pam.mcqueen@datalogic.com