News | September 23, 2008

InnerWireless Enables In-Building Wireless Communications At Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, The Gulf Coast's Most Luxurious Resort

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InnerWireless®, Inc., the premier provider of converged wireless solutions, today announced that it has fully deployed its Horizon™ system at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Miss., to guarantee mission- and life-critical wireless communications. Beau Rivage is the crown jewel of the Gulf Coast's gaming industry, and at 32 stories tall and 3.2 million square feet, it's both the tallest and largest building in the state of Mississippi. Beau Rivage relies on InnerWireless to distribute cellular/PCS, back-of-house wireless communications, two-way radios for first-responders, and Wi-Fi for guests in public areas.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, MGM MIRAGE and Beau Rivage executives vowed to rebuild the resort, bring back its 3,800 employees and jump-start the region's economy. The hotel and gaming titan made good on that promise by re-opening Beau Rivage after investing $550 million in renovations. The reborn resort is more aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced than ever. In fact, Beau Rivage executives stated that their objective was for the remodeled resort to include the kinds of amenities, services and advanced technologies that couldn't be found elsewhere until years into the future.

Beau Rivage sought out an in-building wireless system that would guarantee first-responders could use their two-way radios anywhere inside the resort. But instead of considering multiple discrete wireless systems, Beau Rivage executives wanted a single, highly engineered system that ensured comprehensive in-building distribution of two-way radio communications, while supporting their staff's cellular and push-to-talk communications in addition to providing guests with Wi-Fi access in public areas. These criteria and the absolute requirement for guaranteed coverage and signal strength resulted in Beau Rivage choosing Horizon from InnerWireless.

"For InnerWireless, there's no higher calling than helping customers ensure mission- and life-critical services with our guaranteed in-building wireless coverage and signal strength, and we are especially proud to be part of Beau Rivage reinventing itself," said Ed Cantwell, president, CEO and chairman of InnerWireless. "MGM MIRAGE ranks among the world's most respected hotel and gaming companies, and over the years we have gotten to know MGM MIRAGE leadership very well. InnerWireless is proud to be part of Beau Rivage's new technology infrastructure designed to more efficiently handle the safety and needs of its guests and staff while delivering on MGM MIRAGE's promise of legendary guest experiences at all of its properties."

InnerWireless has more than 22 million square feet of gaming, hotel and convention space under contract in Las Vegas and other markets such as Mississippi and Connecticut, where InnerWireless has been deployed at the Mohegan Sun since 2002.

About InnerWireless

InnerWireless enables today's mobile workforce with the ubiquitous in-building delivery of Wireless Wide Area Network and WLAN (Wi-Fi) for voice, data, video, location and other wireless services – guaranteed. Designed expressly for mission- and life-critical wireless applications, the HorizonTM Converged Wireless Platform is the only solution that guarantees both wireless coverage and signal strength. Horizon also offers innovative capacity solutions, such as a next-generation WLAN design for optimizing Wi-Fi quality of service levels. An industry-leading warranty, low TCO and energy-conserving GREEN design make Horizon ideal for the cost-conscious enterprise. In addition, InnerWireless offers the PanGo™ Unified Asset Visibility platform to aggregate and synthesize data from a variety of RTLS, RFID and sensor sources. Asset identity, location and status information can be integrated with enterprise applications to deliver a cost-optimized, future-oriented solution for location-enabling the extended enterprise. For more information about InnerWireless, visit www.innerwireless.com.