Entropic Communications Ships One Million c.LINK(TM) Chipsets.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. -- Today, Entropic Communications joins a rarified rar·i·fied adj. Variant of rarefied. Adj. 1. rarified - having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" rarefied, rare group by delivering its one-millionth c.LINK-270(TM) chipset after being in production for less than 18 months. "We believe that we are just at the very early stages of an explosive market opportunity for home networking of digital entertainment and high speed broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. ," said Patrick Henry, 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 Communications. "One million chipsets shipped is an enormous accomplishment for any company, especially at the early stages of a market ramp." The c.LINK chipset is currently being deployed in Japan, Korea and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . It is used 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. It is also used for high speed network access applications from a fiber node to the home for high speed broadband access in multiple dwelling units, for example. Customers include 2Wire, Actiontec, Alcatel, BnMux, Foxconn, Hannet Telecom, Linksys, Motorola, Mototech, Oki, Panasonic, Tellabs, Samsung, Scientific Atlanta and Westell. c.LINK chipsets can be found in Motorola products deployed by Verizon in the U.S., 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. in Japan and Hanaro Telecom Inc. in Korea. "With almost 500,000 MoCA-enabled consumer devices already shipped, Motorola is a leader in enabling IP-based media networking within the connected home. Entropic's c.LINK chipset is an important component in bringing this advanced functionality into our set-top portfolio, and we congratulate them on their milestone shipment," said Mike Laraia, Senior Director, Product Management and Marketing, Motorola, Inc. "Entropic's c.LINK chipset is an important component of our recently MoCA-certified, four-port, broadband home router," said Gunjan Bhow, Actiontec's VP of marketing and product management. "The one millionth shipment is further proof of the market's readiness for a coax broadband solution." 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. "Entropic's c.LINK technology is the first chipset to be fully certified at the system-level by MoCA, and with the shipment of our one millionth chipset, we are driving MoCA as a de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, in the industry," said Patrick. Other MoCA members include 2Wire, Actiontec, Alcatel, Broadcom, B-Star, Broadlight, Comcast, Cox Communications, Conexant, Echostar, Entrisphere, Fujitsu, Hitachi Telecom, Infovalue Experts, JDSU JDSU JDS Uniphase (stock symbol) JDSU Jharkhand Disom Students Union , Kawasaki Microelectronics, Linksys (a division of Cisco), Motorola, Mototech, Netopia, Octalica, Panasonic, Pulse, RadioShack, SBC/AT&T Labs, Siemens, Soontai, Tellabs, Toshiba, Verizon and Westell. 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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