Atheros Chipset Takes Top Honors; Atheros' High-Speed, Low-Cost AR5000 Chipset cited by PC Magazine as ''best of today's network infrastructure technologies''.Business Editors & Technology Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001 The AR5000 chipset from Atheros Communications was awarded first place in the wireless hardware category of PC Magazine's "Innovation in Infrastructure" competition. The announcement was made in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. on May 8 at the NetWorld+Interop Conference. The magazine's editors chose 10 winners out of a field of 28 finalists that "exemplify the best and most advanced of today's network infrastructure technologies and provide a window into the future of this critical area of computing." The announcement will be posted on www.pcmag.com. Incorporating a complete "radio-on-a-chip" (RoC), the Atheros AR5000 is the world's first two-chip, all-CMOS, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a 5-GHz wireless LANs A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area . This groundbreaking technology opens the door to vast new possibilities, as high-speed wireless data becomes widely available in offices, homes, schools, and in public places such as airports, hotels and coffee shops. The Atheros AR5000 chipset is compliant with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Not to be confused with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-e (IEEE) 802.11a, 5-GHz wireless LAN standard. It operates at speeds up to 54 Mbps, five times faster than the currently shipping IEEE 802.11b 2.4-GHz products. In addition, the AR5000 solution offers speeds up to 72 Mbps in Atheros' "Turbo" mode. "This award reflects the importance of freeing data from the wires that connect one device to another," said Rich Redelfs, president and chief executive officer of Atheros. "Wireless is in everyone's future, and we are honored that PC Magazine chose our chipset as the best innovation for driving this wireless future." About PC Magazine PC Magazine (www.pcmag.com) is the premier connection point for 6.7 million technology buyers making brand decisions for their company. PC Magazine's editorial mission is to analyze, evaluate and review all the technology solutions that build a modern business. Unlike any other publication, PC Magazine's content is obsessively focused on providing the information that its readers need in order to make an informed vendor selection. To meet its readers' needs for buying information that is as current as it is comprehensive, PC Magazine publishes 22 times a year in print and continuously online at pcmag.com. PC Magazine also delivers its brand promise across multiple media platforms including: PC Magazine Custom Events, PC Magazine Custom Research, eNewsletters, eSeminars, Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Inc. (ZD) is an American magazine publisher and Internet Information company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, Custom Media and broadcast relationships with CNNfn and the College Television Network. About Atheros Communications, Inc. Atheros Communications was founded in May 1998 by leading experts in radio and signal processing See DSP. from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , and private industry. The Company's mission is to provide wireless networking See wireless network. 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 over 120 people and has filed more than 40 wireless technology patents. For more information, visit www.atheros.com, call 408/773-5200 or send email to info@atheros.com. Atheros and the Atheros logo are trademarks of Atheros Communications, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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