Lori Mortensen-Egbert Wins an Award!

Bountiful® Wi-Fi Lori Mortensen-Egbert Recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as One of the Top Women on the Channel

Bountiful, Utah, July 27, 2010 – Bountiful® Wi-Fi, designer and manufacturer of the most powerful wireless products allowed by law, today announced that Lori Mortensen-Egbert, VP of Marketing has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the top Women of the Channel. CRN’s annual list recognizes female executives across vendors’ channel organizations, distributors and solution providers for their accomplishments over the past year and the far-reaching impact they are having on the technology industry going forward. This year’s Women of the Channel were chosen by the editors of CRN magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel.

Lori is responsible for Bountiful® Wi-Fi’s public relations and marketing, including a successful PR launch, gaining international exposure with outstanding reviews and press coverage of the patented BWRG1000 by Popular Science, Network World, CRN, Wired Magazine, PC World, and others. Lori has also developed and maintained channel relationships, which distribute and market Bountiful® Wi-Fi products. She also manages Bountiful® Wi-Fi’s vast channel, interacting with executive level management such as ADI-Honeywell, D&H, Zones, and Insight.


“Women hold many prominent executive positions at vendor organizations, distributors and solution provider organizations, providing critical insight and influence when it comes to technology and the channel. We want to honor and congratulate these women for their contributions to the industry and their respective organizations,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel.


A special feature of the Women of the Channel is in the July issue of CRN Magazine and expanded coverage will be featured online at www.crn.com.

Bountiful® Wi-Fi is internationally recognized for its’ powerful, affordable, and reliable full enterprise solutions of wireless networking products including: long range, managed and unmanaged wireless access points, routers, feature-rich and cost effective WLAN controllers, antennas, cables, switches, and PoE accessories.
Bountiful® Wi-Fi has a patent on the most powerful wireless router allowed under FCC regulations. At nearly 1 watt of output power and 2 to 4 X the range, the Bountiful® Router G1000 has both a superior send & receive signal, and currently outperforms the N in range. All products are scalable to N. Supported and made in the USA.



Everything Channel
Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.

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CRN Magazine Recognizes Bountiful Wi-Fi

In the competitive networking sector of the Tech market, it's hard to get exposure. In the past two months, Bountiful Wi-Fi has been named an "Emerging Vendor" in CRN Magazine. In June, the company was one of their "10 Hot Emerging Vendors For June 2010" and then, in July, Bountiful Wi-Fi showed up again, this time as one of their "2010 Emerging Networking Vendors." Clicking on the title of this post will take you to the article that appeared in June, but for the blurb in the July edition of the magazine, you'll either have to buy a copy (see page 22)...or continue reading. Here's what they had to say:

"Bountiful Wi-Fi is fond of touting its products as 'the most powerful Wi-Fi products and solutions allowed by law,' and gradually, it's gained the type of channel support to back up that confidence. Its BWRACWALL Series Controller is one of the main products available through VARSense, a channel-oriented discounting program."



Thank you, CRN Magazine for all the nice comments. For more information on our products and the VARSense program, go to www.bountifulwifi.com.

Improving existing technology

Bountiful Wi-Fi takes existing technology and makes it better for the average VAR, which is usually a small operation. Often, a VAR is an owner – the business side of the operation – and one or two technicians. These types of outfits don’t get big contracts. Large corporations have their own staff, or will hire a larger, outside firm.

So, what do the large VARs have in common with the smaller VARs? The bottom line. That’s where Bountiful Wi-Fi steps in, aiming to let them know that they have a powerful, lower cost alternative. When clients pay a lot for a wireless system, they expect a lot out of the system. Then, when systems under-perform, clients are left to wonder what exactly they spent their hard-earned money on. Bountiful Wi-Fi’s products, on the other hand, are priced with the small- to medium-sized business in mind without sacrificing performance.

Plus, Bountiful Wi-Fi’s systems are feature-rich, so VARs don’t have to sacrifice their reputations by selling inferior products in order to save money. Listed below are some of the most popular features:
- Customizable splash page
- Captive portal
- Payment gateway
- VPN
- Firewall with rules
- Traffic shaper
- Quad SSID
- Remote access

Go to http://www.bountifulwifi.com for more information.

Creating a more reliable wireless network

When designing a wireless network, there are three things to keep in mind:
- Management
- Complexity
- Maintenance

These three things all create costs that drain a VAR’s bottom line. They’re inevitable because every network must be managed, each has a specific level of complexity, and every network requires maintenance at some point. The first and third (management and maintenance) are both directly proportional to the second (complexity); as complexity costs goes down, so do the other two. As the network’s complexity decreases with the installation of a Bountiful Wi-Fi network, the time required to manage and the effort to fix problems go down also.

Bountiful Wi-Fi limits these issues with its simple, high-powered, centrally-managed network solution. The one Watt send/receive signal means less access points are needed to cover a given area; this, in turn, means the network is less complex, which leads to a network that is easier to manage. Also, with the central management, it can all be controlled remotely; a network in Nebraska can be serviced by a technician in Idaho, with no travel required.

If a network does require an actual visit, a tech can diagnose the issues, via the controller’s remote functionality, before leaving, or while travelling, so that the issues are known ahead of time and can be planned for. Thanks to the non-complexity of the network, maintenance can be performed quickly, saving time and stress.

Please visit http://www.bountifulwifi.com for more information.

Healthcare “hearts” Bountiful Wi-Fi

A current trend in the healthcare industry is electronic records transferring. The ability to send records without a huge paper trail cuts down on costs like transporting, validation and time. Even within a single hospital complex, these can cost lives.

One of the barriers to creating an electronic transfer system is infrastructure. Will every room be wired? Will every physician and nurse need to carry a notebook computer to plug in, or will there be a computer station for each patient’s room? As the pile of questions grows ever-larger, the answer becomes clearer: wireless network. These types of systems have nothing to do with watching funny videos on YouTube, but have everything to do with saving lives and keeping track of patients’ records.

A Bountiful Wi-Fi wireless network will do the following for a healthcare facility:
- make records transferring immediate
- cut down on infrastructure costs
- simplify the installation of the wireless network
- decrease hardware upkeep costs

For those in the know, a Bountiful Wi-Fi controller – the brains of the network – offers the following features to aid in healthcare facilities:
- VPN
- Captive portal for individual username and password access
- Access restriction
- Firewall with rules
- NAT
- Configure up to four SSIDs

For more information, visit: http://www.bountifulwifi.com.

Wi-Fi Security: Introductions

In this economy, protecting information has become an even more vital part of the stability of companies that want to avoid bankruptcy filings. That fact, combined with the ever-growing value of wireless connectivity in the workplace, is leading to an increased need for Wi-Fi security. For VARs and integrators that manage networks as well, this need is even greater as they try to monitor the equipment they install.

There are seemingly unlimited numbers of things (viruses, worms, malware, etc.) crawling around the Internet, just waiting to invade your computer. Most of these can be downloaded over Wi-Fi now, leaving your customers with very little protection. How can you prevent having to go and repair or replace equipment and computers that have been corrupted? The answer is to install a Bountiful Wi-Fi wireless network.

With a full array of Wi-Fi security features, including:
- WEP, WPA & WPA2 Encryption
- Firewall with rules

- NAT
- VPN
- Customizable splash page
- Secure Payment Gateway
- Much, much more

Hospitality and the required Wi-Fi value-add

"Value-add" is not really even the right phrase to use when talking about Wi-Fi and hospitality. Guests expect Internet access, and, more and more, they expect it to be wireless. Especially when guests are often there for work conferences, access to remote office servers and computers is a necessity.

Deploying a hotel-wide network can be tricky business; an over-abundance of walls, in addition to multiple stairwells and elevators, present challenges that don't exist in some other scenarios. Also, security enablement is essential for guests with sensitive materials to protect. And, of course, people want to be able to access all of their information wherever they are in a hotel or at a resort. The result can be a costly, extensive install.

Now, what if you could make that install more profitable by limiting the amount of hardware and shortening the install time without losing the high-quality features that are necessary for this type of job? Bountiful Wi-Fi makes that possible with its centrally-managed, high-powered, cost-efficient Wi-Fi equipment, featuring:
- Customizable splash page for guest login
- Captive portal
- 1 Watt access points that give you two to three times more coverage
- Centrally-managed system with remote administrative access via the Internet
- Firewall with rules
- Content filtering
- NAT
- VPN
- RADIUS authentication
- Much, much more

Go to www.bountifulwifi.com today for information on where to buy and for tips on installing a hotel network.