Texas School District Implements State-of-the-Art Broadband Wireless Solution Delivered by Proxim and IBM Global Services

Texas School District Implements State-of-the-Art Broadband Wireless Solution Delivered by Proxim and IBM Global Services

IBM Global Services Offers Proxim Broadband Wireless Products to Customers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Proxim Corporation (NASDAQ:PROX), a global leader in wireless networking equipment for Wi-Fi and broadband wireless networks, today announced that Proxim and IBM Global Services have delivered a broadband wireless solution for the Texas-based Canyon Independent School District (CISD), a 15-campus educational organization dedicated to excellence in K through 12 schooling.

With a new converged voice and data network that was designed and built by IBM and that utilizes Proxim's Tsunami Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems for its high-speed wireless infrastructure, CISD can now provide its 7,500 students and its faculty and staff including over 1,000 teachers, with high-speed access to critical learning applications and to the Internet. The new network has enabled CISD to offer a nearly 100% increase in computer hours for its students with 20 additional hours of computer time per week, per student. Students can now access a rich set of district learning materials including self-paced courses to earn high-school and college credit, and teachers can now access testing tools and applications that allow them to better assess students and direct their instruction to meet individual student requirements. Furthermore, CISD achieved these goals cost-effectively, at about half the cost of a fiber-based solution.

Canyon ISD's communications system is one of the best available, as a result of the work done by IBM and Proxim," said Ken Burt, CIO of CISD. "Not only was the solution less costly than the fiber-based alternatives we evaluated, but it was implemented in about one-third of the time. We are excited about the new efficiencies and learning opportunities our staff and students will experience as a result of the new network."

"IBM is providing innovative wireless systems to answer the needs of schools and universities across the United States," said Scott Stainken, General Manager, IBM Wireless e-Business. " We believe Canyon is giving its students, faculty and administration a learning edge through the IBM and Proxim network."

IBM Global Services offers Proxim's portfolio of BWA solutions to enterprise business customers, government agencies and municipalities, school districts and service providers. These solutions provide customers with cost-effective, best-in-class solutions for last mile access, LAN extension, metropolitan area networking and public safety and surveillance applications. The combination of Proxim's broadband wireless portfolio with IBM Global Services' extensive experience in network design, implementation and support, gives customers significant cost and deployment advantages for these applications.

"We believe that together, Proxim and IBM Global Services offer a compelling customer solution for broadband wireless access," said Kevin Duffy, President and Chief Operating Officer at Proxim. "We will work together closely to pursue opportunities in the enterprise, wireless internet service provider and state and local government markets."

About Proxim

Proxim(R) Corporation is a global leader in wireless networking equipment for Wi-Fi and broadband wireless networks. The company provides enterprise and service provider customers with wireless solutions for the mobile enterprise, security and surveillance, last mile access, voice and data backhaul, public hot spots, and metropolitan area networks. Product families include the Award-winning ORiNOCO Wi-Fi products, Tsunami Ethernet bridges, and Lynx point-to-point digital radios. Proxim is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum(TM) and a member of the Wi-Fi(R) Alliance. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol PROX and is on the Web at www.proxim.com.

Safe Harbor

This press release may contain forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from Proxim's expectations in these statements. For additional information regarding risks relating to Proxim's business, see Proxim Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and Forms 10-Q for quarters ended April 2, 2004, July 2, 2004 and October 1, 2004. Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other relevant materials filed by Proxim with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Proxim assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.


Source: Proxim Corporation

CONTACT: Sylvia Clark of Proxim Corporation, +1-408-542-3357, or
sclark@proxim.com; or Lori S. Hultin of LSH Communications, +1-818-879-4651,
or lhultin@sbcglobal.net, for Proxim Corporation

Web site: http://www.proxim.com/


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