SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 4, 2001--
Atheros Communications, Inc., was named by Communication Systems Design magazine to its 2001 Comet Awards listing of the industry's leading and emerging communication companies. The Communication Systems Design, editorial staff along with editors from EE Times, Embedded Systems Programming and CommsDesign.com select companies based on technological innovation, potential impact on the market and vision.
"We are very excited about receiving such a prestigious award from a respected publication like Communication Systems Design," said Rich Redelfs, president and CEO of Atheros Communications. "Being recognized for our first product and our vision of helping build a world of ubiquitous wireless connectivity is not only a strong endorsement for our company, but for the emerging wireless networking market as well."
The company's first product, the AR5000 wireless LAN chipset, provides complete wireless LAN connectivity based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11a standard. The chipset consists of two highly integrated chips featuring the world's first complete
5 GHz "Radio-on-a-Chip" (RoC) and MAC/baseband processor that are exclusively manufactured using standard-process digital CMOS technology. The AR5000 solution delivers cost-effective, robust and energy-efficient wireless connectivity with higher data rates and significantly improved system capacity over current wireless networking technologies.
"Atheros' innovative work in developing fast wireless Ethernet-like technology based on IEEE's 802.11a standard is helping to narrow the performance gap between wired and wireless networking," said Communication Systems Design's Editor-in-Chief, Rob Keenan. "As such, they are well positioned to benefit from the growing wireless networking market."
Comet Award recipients make up various segments of the communications industry including chip, board, software manufacturers, and OEM companies. 2001 Comet Award winners are posted online at www.csdmag.com.
Communication Systems Design (www.csdmag.com) is the magazine for engineers and managers involved in the design and development of communications systems and equipment. The magazine focuses on the leading-edge wired, optical and wireless technologies employed in the development of personal, home/soho, enterprise, and infrastructure systems and equipment. With a qualified circulation of 50,000 communications engineers and managers, Communication Systems Design is published by CMP Media LLC, a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum - the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide.
Atheros Communications was founded in May 1998 by leading experts in radio and signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and private industry. The Company's mission is to provide wireless networking technologies that drive transparent connections between all computing, communications, audio and video devices. Funded by August Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates and others, Atheros has raised a total of $98.3 million in three rounds of funding. The Company currently employs 140 people and has filed more than 45 wireless technology patents.
Cheryl Patstone, Atheros Communications, 408-773-5344, cheryl@atheros.com
or Greg Wood, A&R Partners, 650-762-2838, gwood@arpartners.com.
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