BreezeCOM to Introduce New Line of Wideband Frequency Hopping Products.Business & High Tech Editors TEL AVIV Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel & CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2000 New FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ruling opens doors for improved performance BreezeCOM (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BRZE), has announced its intention to introduce a new generation of high speed Broadband Wireless See wireless broadband. Access products in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM band (Industrial, Scientific and Medical band) A part of the radio spectrum that can be used by anybody without a license in most countries. In the U.S., the 902-928 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.7-5. , taking advantage of the newly released FCC ruling on Wideband Frequency Hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. systems. The new products will reach data rates of up to 20 Mbps, utilizing 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. wide channels as permitted by the new regulations and are expected to be released in the first half of 2001. They will use an Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) A digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies. ) technology, which is extremely robust to channel impairments typical to the unlicensed bands. "We intend to squeeze much more speed and robustness with this technology than originally intended by the HomeRF petition," commented Naftali Chayat, the chief technology officer of BreezeCOM and chair of the 802.11a standards committee. "OFDM technology has gained recognition as a strong alternative for high speed wireless networking applications, including wireless local area networks and broadband wireless access. The new ruling enables BreezeCOM to bring the promise of OFDM to the 2.4 GHz ISM band." The FCC amendment specifically allows frequency hopping spread spectrum systems, operating in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed band, to use a minimum of 15 hopping channels, spanning a total of 75 MHz and to provide for hopping channels up to 5 MHz wide. The Commission stated that the new wider bandwidths will permit these systems to provide higher data speeds, thereby enabling the development of new and improved consumer products for such applications as wireless Internet access and LANs. The wider data channels were expected to allow data rates of up to 10Mbps. The announcement by BreezeCOM pushes the technology beyond its anticipated limits, doubling the access speed to 20Mbps. "We are extremely pleased with the new wideband frequency hopping ruling recently passed by the FCC," commented Bernard Herscovich, president of BreezeCOM, Inc. "Frequency hopping systems have always offered superior benefits, better supporting high density environments, a critical requirement for service providers who want to ensure the quality of their customers' service. These products will now offer the industry's highest data rates, greatly surpassing current technologies." About BreezeCOM BreezeCOM is a leading developer and manufacturer of broadband wireless access products and wireless LANs, targeted to public operators, ISPs and private enterprises. BreezeCOM products employ broadband, narrowband and spread spectrum radios, digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) modems and point-to-multipoint wireless packet switching technologies optimized for high-speed Internet access. For further information, visit http://www.breezecom.com. BreezeNET and BreezeACCESS are trademarks of BreezeCOM, Inc. All other trade names are the properties of their respective owners. This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in BreezeCOM's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including BreezeCOM's Form F-1. |
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