Entropic Communications Opens Hong Kong Office.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Due to increased demand for its c.LINK(TM) chipset, Entropic Communications has opened an office in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . The office will provide sales and customer and technical support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to its customers including B-Star, BnMUX, Fujitsu, Hannet Telecom, Hitachi Telecom, Kawasaki Microelectronics, Mototech, Oki Electronics, Panasonic, Soontai and Toshiba. Entropic's c.LINK is already in deployment by J:COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , Japan's second largest multiple service operator (MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system. ), and Hanaro Telecom in Korea. "The U.S. represented the initial phase of our rollout of the c.LINK chipset, but almost immediately we received interest from many other companies based in Asia wanting to serve their large cable infrastructure already in existence," said Patrick Henry, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Entropic. "To serve them in real time, we feel it was about time we opened a full service office to be closer to our customers." The office is led by Fred Leung, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, and is staffed by engineer and technical support professionals. Additional sales and office management are being added. "As the demand for whole-home distribution of digital entertainment increases, it became necessary to establish a presence on the ground in Asia," said Fred Leung. The c.LINK chipset can be found in a variety of consumer electronics devices such as set-top boxes, digital video recorders, broadband home routers and media gateways to enable whole-home access to all the stored multimedia and video content in the home over the existing coaxial cable infrastructure. The chipset also has applications in high speed network access applications from a fiber node to the home for high speed broadband access in multiple dwelling units, for example. The office location is Unit 313 of the 3rd Floor of Building 1 and Unit 315 of the 3rd Floor of Building 2, Phase One, Hong Kong Science Park The Hong Kong Science Park (Traditional Chinese: 香港科學園; Simplified Chinese: 香港科学园 , Pak Shek Kok, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. Entropic is a founding member of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance The Multimedia over Coax Alliance develops specifications for home networking over in-home coaxial cable, which is commonly used for antenna connections to TVs and radios, and cable TV. (MoCA(TM)), www.mocalliance.org, an open industry consortium dedicated to proliferating the standard for delivering video over coax, and ensuring interoperability with member products and coexistence with other delivery mediums, under a RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing environment. About Entropic Communications Entropic Communications, Inc., is the leading developer of 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. and WAN coax networking for home digital entertainment. Entropic's products allow consumers to easily share digital entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing coax infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content such as movies, music, and images are stored and networked by the average user. For more information: www.entropic.com. (C) Entropic Communications. All rights reserved. c.LINK and Enabling home networking for digital entertainment are trademarks of Entropic Communications. |
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