Hsinchu, Taiwan and ACCTON, Mass., October 25, 2004 – Accton Technology Corporation (TAIEX: 2345), a leading solution providerof advanced communication products, today announced thatwill develop self-optimizing wireless local areas network (WLAN) access points available to Accton partners with Propagate Networks, Inc., developer of AutoCell® cognitive radio firmware for 802.11 wireless networks. Accton has selected Propagate’s AutoCell® firmware to integrate into multiple reference designs for its WLAN access points ranging from the low-end to the high-end.
“The proliferation of WLANs and Wi-Fi devices in business creates noise interference issues which substantially degrades overall WLAN performance.This creates the need for intelligent RF capabilities to help address this growing problem.” said Cashew Chen, the Vice President of Sales & Marketing Center in Accton Technology.”Accton choses Propagate’s AutoCell® because of its superior automatic client load balancing, channel selection and AP and client power control that dramatically increase performance while requiring minimal or no manual configuration beyond the initial set up. Combining Propagates technology with Accton’s existing platform will give future wireless solutions “plug and play”capabilities, make it easy to set up and eliminate many configuration steps to accomplish optimal performance.In environments with large scale wireless deployments, devices will automatically communicate and negotiate with each other to provide the best network availability and throughput performance for users on the networks.”
“Accton, by choosing AutoCell®, enables its partners to bring optimized access points and client devices to enterprise and small business customers so they can realize the genuine advantages of wireless networking,” said Gary Vacon, co-founder and CEO, Propagate Networks. “Propagate is committed to making the Wi-Fi experience as painless as possible so users can simply plug in a new access point and never worry about neighboring interference and administrative headaches and still recognize maximum WLAN performance, automatically.”
Along with the population with Centrino technology as well as the wireless built-in devices in the markets, the releases of 802.11 security standards as well as high-band and throughput, wireless applications gradually move into SMB and Enterprise from SOHO and home users. Accton is the rare communication companies in Taiwan who can integrate completed wired and wireless technology. Through the integration with Propagate Networks’ technology know-how, Accton will expand the capability to deliver complicated technology with simple and plug & play interface to users and thus further to create the enterprise-level wireless market demand. Wireless application will be everywhere and anywhere from then.
About Accton Technology Corporation
For more than fifteen years, Accton (TAIEX: 2345) has been making partnership work; designing, developing and manufacturing innovative technology for top-tier networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors.The company’s robust and constantly-evolving core technology and highly-qualified employees allow Accton to produce the best in networking and communications technology that keeps people connected–around the world and across the office.Headquartered in the heart of Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, Accton’s teams of engineers work on location with partners and from Accton R&D centers around the globe.For more information about Accton and its subsidiaries, visit www.accton.com.
About Propagate Networks
Propagate Networks develops and globally markets AutoCell®, its cognitive Radio Frequency (RF) management firmware that provides maximum 802.11 wireless local area networking (WLAN) performance in high density and high interference business environments.With more than 50 patent applications pending in the U.S. and abroad, Propagate has attracted such leading Wi-Fi industry leaders as strategic partners — Atheros Communications, Chantry Networks and NETGEAR, Inc.Headquartered in Acton, Mass., Propagate has offices in China and the U.S. and is privately funded.For more information, go to www.propagatenet.com.
About Propagate Networks’ AutoCell®
AutoCell® is patent-pending cognitive radio firmware that can be embedded in 802.11 wireless network (WLAN) devices, including access points (APs) and client adapters. AutoCell® is a distributed system that continuously monitors RF patterns—including both transmitting and client devices—and automatically tunes AP signal strength and channel selection to avoid RF interference. The result is a completely self-optimizing network that delivers peak performance, under all conditions.
