Wireless Innovator Atheros Forms Japanese Subsidiary.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2001 Former Chair of Japanese MMAC MMAC Multimedia Mobile Access Communication MMAC Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce MMAC Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center MMAC Mutated in Multiple Advanced Cancers MMAC Multi Media Access Center (Cabletron) Ethernet Wireless Access Working Group, Dr. Tomoki Ohsawa, to Drive Groundbreaking Networking Technology in Japan Atheros Communications today announced the establishment of a Japanese subsidiary, Atheros Communications, KK, naming Dr. Tomoki Ohsawa as general manager. Dr. Ohsawa is the former manager of the Radio Technologies Development Division at NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation and the former chair of the Ethernet Wireless Access Working Group of the MMAC in Japan. Dr. Ohsawa will oversee Atheros' overall business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets in Japan, including sales, customer engineering, strategic development, operations and marketing, as the company brings its groundbreaking wireless networking See wireless network. technology to this market. Founded in 1998, Atheros is dedicated to driving transparent connectivity between all computing, communication, video and audio devices in the office, in the home, and in public places. Announced last September, its fast, highly-integrated Atheros AR5000 chipset incorporates a complete "radio-on-a-chip" (RoC) and represents a significant breakthrough over existing far slower, more complex and more expensive products. The AR5000 is the world's first two-chip, all-CMOS end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a, 5-GHz wireless LANs. The AR5000 chipset supports the IEEE 802.11a maximum data rate of 54 Mbps, and also provides speeds up to 72 Mbps in Atheros' "turbo" mode. "Tomoki is one of Japan's foremost authorities in wireless LAN technology," said Rich Redelfs, 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 Atheros. "His leadership in industry standards development and deployment, as well as his deep experience as both an engineer and a manager in wireless technology, will be invaluable to Atheros as we grow our business in Japan." One of Dr. Ohsawa's accomplishments was his successful chairmanship of the Ethernet Wireless Access Working Group of Multimedia Mobile Access Communications
Access Communications Co-operative Ltd. Promotion Council (MMAC-PC). This group was instrumental in choosing the IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard for the Japanese market. Dr. Ohsawa had been with NEC since 1983, holding senior level management positions in the company's Network Research Lab, Computer and Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. Product Development Lab, Wireless Communication Division, and Radio Technologies Development Division. Dr. Ohsawa holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Nihon University. He has 122 patents issued and 47 pending, as well as written over 100 papers and numerous magazine articles on wireless LAN technology. "Wireless LAN deployment in Asia is a huge market that includes both the office and the home," said Dr. Ohsawa. "Atheros KK will play an important role in introducing IEEE 802.11a technology to Japan and the rest of Asia, where wireless solutions like i-mode and cellular phones have been very popular." Atheros Communications KK is located at: 4th floor, Sanko-Biko Building, 1-2-6, Uchi-kanda, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo 101-0047, Japan Email: Sales_Asia@atheros.com About Atheros Communications Atheros Communications was founded in May 1998 by leading experts in radio and signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , and private industry. The company's founding mission is to provide wireless networking technologies that drive transparent connections between all computing, communications, audio and video devices in the office and the home. Funded by venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] August Capital, Foundation Capital and New Enterprise Associates, Atheros currently employs over 110 people and has filed more than 35 wireless technology patents. For more information, visit www.atheros.com, call 408/773-5200 or send email to info@atheros.com. Note to Editors: ATHEROS(TM) and the Atheros logo are trademarks of Atheros Communications, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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