• Kabel Noord has successfully implemented a wireless network in the city of Dokkum.

• Kabel Noord back-office systems fully outsourced to Hopling Services, a subsidiary of Hopling Technologies.

Almere, September 10, 2007 - Hopling Technologies, a fast growing technology leader in IP-based wireless networking equipment for enterprises, operators and service providers today announced that Kabel Noord has successfully implemented a wireless seamless working network in the city of Dokkum, the most northern city in the Netherlands.

The wireless network covers the downtown area and the central part of the city of Dokkum including the harbor, and addresses the nomadic Internet user. Especially the numerous tourists who arrive per boat are targeted with the implemented network. Kabel Noord already installed intelligent Hotspots at several locations on the islands of Ameland and Schiermonnikoog using wireless equipment from Hopling Technologies.

“Due to the fact that the network nodes are self-installing, we could easily roll out the network and benefit from a steep growth in usage of the network,” said Anne Fahner, Manager Customer Services of Kabel Noord. “We were able to fully outsource the back-office functions (i.e. network management, access control and billing) to Hopling Services, which allows us to concentrate on deploying a state-of-the-art wireless mesh network without the need for any additional overhead in our organization."

“The wireless network in Dokkum is based on Hopling Technologies’ high-capacity mesh nodes with integrated wireless access points,” said Aad van Diepen, Vice President Global Services of Hopling Technologies. “The mesh nodes are wirelessly interconnected using the HopWARE Mesh Architecture (HMA). The patented Hopling Discovery Protocol (HDP) enables the network nodes to automatically configure themselves for optimal communication with neighboring network nodes.”