Bandspeed Vice President of Marketing to Speak at Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004; Blaine Kohl to Address Bandwidth Requirements for Voice over Internet Protocol Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004

Bandspeed, a leading semiconductor company designing spatial division multiple access (SDMA) components for wireless LAN access point (AP) vendors, announced today that Blaine Kohl, vice president of marketing, will speak on "Providing the Required Bandwidth to support VoIP Applications over 802.11" at the upcoming Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004, May 25-28, at Sofitel Bercy, Paris, France. Kohl will give her presentation at 10:00 a.m. on May 28.

VoIP over 802.11, or voice over Wi-Fi, is rapidly growing into one of the major new services offered for portable 802.11 devices. However, this service also presents a number of challenges to Wi-Fi network managers -- challenges that can overwhelm the capabilities of current Wi-Fi network design.

Voice over Wi-Fi increases network capacity needs because it adds more users, more applications and more simultaneous usage. Kohl will discuss the concerns of end users, CIOs and IT managers and why today's network options are limited in their abilities to address these concerns. She will also describe how Bandspeed's fast sector-to-sector roaming with fewer box-to-box hand offs, unsurpassed RF manageability, simplified scalability and Listen+Learn software can provide high-quality voice over Wi-Fi service without diminishing overall network performance.

About Blaine Kohl

Kohl has over 13 years of experience with networking and communications products and has specific expertise in the development and launching of new technologies and products. Before joining Bandspeed as vice president of marketing, she served as Intel's director of marketing for iSCSI (storage over Ethernet) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet products, where she was pivotal in the development of the technologies and products and developing ecosystems for the businesses. Prior to Intel, Kohl worked at Level One Communications, Jato Technologies and Motorola in both marketing and engineering capacities.

About Bandspeed

Bandspeed, a privately held, Austin, Texas-based semiconductor company, is the world's first semiconductor company that designs spatial division multiple access (SDMA) components for wireless LAN (WLAN) access point (AP) vendors. Bandspeed's Gypsy(tm) SDMA architecture and Listen+Learn(tm) software are the basis of the company's AP System-on-a-Chip (AP SOC) IC products. Great for applications like VoWLAN (voice over WLAN) and other applications that are capacity and latency sensitive, the company's signal processing systems for interference mitigation and signal recovery set new standards for WLAN deployment and performance. Bandspeed's solutions enable AP suppliers to improve performance up to six times and coverage up to 36 times of that which can be achieved with conventional APs, thereby significantly reducing the cost and complexity associated with the deployment and manageability of WLANs.

Note to Editors: Blaine Kohl is available for interviews by contacting Catherine Seeds at 512-794-8876 or [e-mail].

For more information on Bandspeed and its Gypsy technology, please contact the company at 512-358-9000, or visit Bandspeed's Web site at www.bandspeed.com.