Alereon First to Meet 480Mbps UWB Spec in Over-the-Air Demonstration.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Alereon, a leading fabless semiconductor company developing wireless solutions for the Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) markets, today announced the world's first over-the-air demonstration in compliance with the Multi-band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) specification. Alereon demonstrated speeds of 480Mbps and 320Mbps in their system lab this week.

Alereon's MBOA leadership and history of UWB development expertise put the company in a position to quickly prove the capabilities of its chipsets once the MBOA-SIG released its specification.

"It's not only encouraging, but truly exciting to see that immediately on the heels of the initial release of the MBOA-SIG ultrawideband specification we already have an over-the-air demonstration that meets the full 480Mbps bandwidth," said Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Research, Parks & Associates. "With the technology for WUSB moving forward at a rapid pace, we can be confident that the industry will be able to move to market quickly."

"This demonstration is another example of Alereon's leadership position in providing MBOA and WUSB silicon solutions," said Eric Broockman, chief executive officer of Alereon. "Not only is Alereon the first company to demonstrate both the mandatory 55Mbps to 200Mbps data rates of the MBOA UWB specification, but we are also the first to demonstrate the more difficult 320 and 480 data rates. We believe this significant accomplishment gives our customers a two and a half times speed advantage over other solutions, and a five-time speed advantage over proprietary UWB solutions. In turn, we believe our customers will enjoy a one-year time to market advantage for higher speed applications by working with Alereon."

About Alereon Inc.

Alereon Inc. is a fables semiconductor company providing complete solutions for wireless USB/MultiBand OFDM ultrawideband (UWB) applications. A technology pioneer, Alereon holds the greatest number of UWB patents, was first to demonstrate an entirely in-house designed UWB platform, co-founded the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA) and WiMedia Alliance, and is participating in the development of a wireless USB standard. Alereon's products promise to replace the complex tangle of wiring used to interconnect today's consumer electronics, computer peripheral, and mobile devices with high-bandwidth, low-power, low-cost wireless links. Further information is available on the company's website: www.alereon.com.