Ethertronics Selected for 2003 Industry Leadership Award; Antenna Systems & Technology Chooses Company Based on Breakthrough Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2003 Ethertronics, the leading developer and manufacturer of high performance internal antennas for wireless devices, today announced that it has been awarded the 2003 Industry Leadership Award by Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine. In a competition between established and up-and-coming external and internal antenna makers, Ethertronics was singled out as the company that has made the most significant contributions through their technology to the antenna industry this year. "Ethertronics has shown exceptional and consistent leadership this year for its ground-breaking technology, commitment to excellence, the breadth of its product offerings and for the marquee customers worldwide who have endorsed its cutting-edge antenna technology," said Jeremy Martin, editor of Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine. "We congratulate Ethertronics on winning the prestigious Industry Leadership Award." "We are deeply honored to be awarded this year's Industry Leadership Award by Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine, one of the premier publications covering our market. We've been very fortunate this year to have received the endorsement of a number of marquee customers, who are implementing our patented antenna technology in a variety of exciting new wireless products for the cellular and wireless LAN 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 markets," commented Bruce Gray Bruce Gray (born Robert Bruce Gray on September 9, 1939) is a Puerto Rican character actor. Gray was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Canadian parents. He was raised on the island until the age of ten when, in 1946, his parents relocated to Saginaw, Michigan then in , chief executive officer of Ethertronics. "Much of the credit for this award goes to our top-notch engineering team, which continues to push the envelope in terms of innovative antenna design and performance, and our operations team which has successfully delivered product in high-volume to some of the most demanding companies in the world." When Ethertronics first burst onto the mobile device antenna scene in 2000, the industry had remained virtually unchanged for more than a decade. Wireless products employed the same external antenna designs (whips and stubs stubs The shares of equity in a firm that is financed almost completely with debt. Stubs are often created when firms go through a leveraged buyout or pay big cash dividends in order to fend off a takeover. ) and a variety of lower performing internal antenna designs (patch, PIFA PIFA Planar Inverted-F (type) Antenna PIFA Premier India Football Academy PIFA Phenyliodine Bis (Trifluoroacetate) PIFA Pittsburgh Institute of Fine Arts (Pennsylvania) , etc.). Both designs had drawbacks. Internal antennas, in particular, have historically lost about 50% of their efficiency as their RF signals were absorbed or deflected by their host devices, while external antennas continued to prove problematic for both product manufacturers and end users due to breakage and repair costs. Meanwhile, Ethertronics has been quietly perfecting and patenting a ground-breaking new embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. antenna technology, Isolated Magnetic Dipole magnetic dipole Tiny magnet with subatomic dimensions, equivalent to the flow of electric charge around a loop. Examples include electrons circulating around atomic nuclei, rotating atomic nuclei, and single subatomic particles with spin. (TM) (IMD IMD - intermodulation distortion ), which represents a drastic paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. in the way antennas are designed and integrated inside wireless devices. IMD antennas deliver unparalleled levels of isolation and efficiency through a variety of design parameters offering the best of both worlds. The technology also utilizes proprietary "shaping technology," which controls and re-directs the near-field electromagnetic distribution of the antenna's wave, while minimizing the interaction with surrounding objects or components. The result of these features is optimal performance in terms of range, data speeds and battery life. The company markets its breakthrough internal antenna products to wireless device manufacturers in the Cellular, WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network , Bluetooth and GPS markets. The antennas are ideally-suited for single and multi-frequency applications and diversity configurations for mobile phones, notebook computers, LAN cards and access points. About Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine Antenna Systems & Technology is a magazine for buyers of antennas and related components, systems, materials and accessories in all wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. markets. For more information about AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. Magazine, visit www.antennasonline.com. About Ethertronics With headquarters in 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. , Ethertronics designs and manufactures the industry's only Isolated Magnetic Dipole(TM) (IMD) internal/embedded antennas for wireless devices. Used in cellular and wireless LAN applications such as phones, notebooks, LAN cards and access points, IMD antennas provide better performance, significantly improved design flexibility and high isolation properties in a small form factor. For more information about Ethertronics, visit the company's Web site at: www.ethertronics.com. (C) 2003 Ethertronics. All rights reserved. Ethertronics, the Ethertronics logo, shaping antenna technology and Isolated Magnetic Dipole are trademarks of Ethertronics. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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