ALOHA Networks, Inc., founder and VP Dr. Norman Abramson awarded 1995 IEEE Computers and Communications medal.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1995--ALOHA Networks, Inc., announced today that Dr. Norman Abramson, founder and vice president of ALOHA Networks, will be presented with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications award at the IEEE COMPCON conference in San Francisco on March 7.

The award honors Abramson "for development of the concept of the ALOHA System, which led to modern local area networks." ALOHA Networks, Inc., is a San Francisco-based developer and producer of wireless multiple access products employing the company's proprietary Spread ALOHA technology.

Abramson originated and developed ALOHA multiple access packet radio communications while serving as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of The ALOHA System at the University of Hawaii. Conventional ALOHA technology was the first multiple access technique to be used in a two-way wireless data network and was first implemented in the ALOHANET at the University of Hawaii in the early 1970s. ALOHA technology was then employed commercially as the foundation for Ethernet, the most popular protocol used for local area (LANs). Since then, conventional ALOHA technology has been widely used in a variety of ground and satellite based networks, including the Ram Mobile Data network, the request channel of the INMARSAT maritime satellite network, the Teleterminal network in Japan, the request channel of the Qualcomm I-95 CDMA cellular radio standard and more than 100,000 very small aperture earth stations (VSATs) now in operation worldwide.

Abramson obtained an A.B. degree in Physics from Harvard University, an M.A. degree in Physics from UCLA and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. In 1958 he joined the Stanford faculty where he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1965 he was appointed professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at Berkeley, Harvard and MIT.

ALOHA Networks, Inc., is developing a set of module products for providers of packet radio network systems and services allowing ubiquitous broadband wireless multiple access using the company's proprietary Spread ALOHA technology. Spread ALOHA technology combines the proven simplicity, reliability and low cost of conventional ALOHA along with the increased user capacity of spread spectrum transmission. The company expects its proprietary Spread ALOHA technology to be the multiple access method of choice by the end of the decade.

For further information please contact Dennis Elliott at 703/759-7456, [e-mail].

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