ActionTec Joins Home Phoneline Networking Alliance.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1998-- New Line of Home Networking Products Will Use Home Phone Wiring for Easy Installation ActionTec Electronics Actiontec Electronics, Inc. is a company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, that designs and sells networking and broadband equipment. They are best known for the Actiontec MI424WR router that is given to Verizon customers. Inc., a leading manufacturer of data communications and wireless products, today announced it had joined the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (communications, networking, protocol, standard) Home Phoneline Networking Alliance - (HomePNA) A non-profit association of more than 100 technology companies working together to ensure adoption of a phone line networking standard which should provide high-speed, affordable home (HomePNA). ActionTec will use the specifications currently being standardized by the alliance as part of their plan to develop a line of home networking products that use existing home telephone wiring to simplify the connection of multiple PC's and peripherals in the home and small office. "Home networking is poised to be the next major wave in consumer product applications," stated Elliot Hadaegh, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ActionTec. "The endorsement of the HomePNA technology by ActionTec and by such major semiconductor manufacturers as Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group, Intel, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, and Advanced Micro Devices, will ensure the availability of the key components and the system interoperability that are so important in establishing user comfort with the technology." The HomePNA networking standard uses Time Modulation Line Coding to create a 1 Mbit/second Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. over phone lines already in the home. No new wires or connections are required. Using a high frequency passband pass·band n. The range of frequencies transmitted by a bandpass filter. of 5.5 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. to 9.5 MHz, the system operates completely independent of the much lower frequency, 3.4 kHz, standard voice range, eliminating interference with conventional telephone service. The ActionTec Home Networking/ HomePNA technology is capable of connecting PCs and peripherals up to 500 feet apart -- equivalent to a home of over 10,000 square feet. Other members of the HomePNA include Tut Systems, 3Com, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , AT&T, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . The ActionTec Home Networking cards scheduled for release later this year are 32-bit PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). plug-and-play for easy installation and fast operation. For maximum flexibility, the system is compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. Multiple users will be able to share a single ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. account with the user-friendly Internet Gateway software ActionTec will provide. Increasing security, the software includes firewall protection to prevent unauthorized access from the Internet to the connected computers. About ActionTec ActionTec has earned an enviable list of awards worldwide, including the prestigious Best of Show award at this summer's Retail Xchange, and the Editors Choice award from CNET's computer.com. ActionTec is also collaborating with Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group in the recently announced "The Lucent Edge" campaign. ActionTec Electronics, Inc. is a significant global player in the data communications marketplace. ActionTec's technically sophisticated products target the needs of SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and consumer users of mobile and desktop computers. The company has a track record of growth, attributed primarily to strong relationships in the data communications product marketplace. ActionTec's product line includes a complete line of phone-line based Home Networking products, Mobile and Desktop Fax/Modems, and Ethernet cards, as well as Internal and External PC Card Read/Write Drives for SmartMedia, CompactFlash and ATA Flash PC Cards. ActionTec's broad range of connectivity and storage products enables desktop computer users to increase productivity and allows mobile computer users to communicate effectively from non-traditional locations. ActionTec products are available through national distribution and retail outlets as well as through private label and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationships. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and maintains branch offices in Philadelphia, PA, Government Sales in Arlington, VA, and International Sales in Irvine, CA. ActionTec Inc. can be reached via the Internet at http://www.actiontec.com, or by phone at (408) 541-9003. ActionTec and the ActionTec logo are trademarks of ActionTec Electronics, Inc. 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