Carlsbad, CA-November 09, 2006 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) has announced that Pulse~LINK has received an International CES Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Award for its CWave® UWB chipset. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products.
Pulse~LINK’s Whole-Home Interactive HD™ solution is the first technology to facilitate room-to-room distribution of multiple HDTV streams and multimedia content over both coax and wireless networks, simultaneously, from the same chipset. The CWave® PL3100 chipset is a hybrid wireless/wired solution enabling simultaneous operation of 1394 and Gigabit Ethernet over the existing coax backbone with the added benefit of high data rate wireless networking of peripheral multimedia devices within each room. Access to High Definition multimedia content throughout the home is achieved with guaranteed end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS).
CWave® enables unequaled whole-home High Definition networking with the necessary capacity for interactive capabilities including pause, fast-forward, fast-rewind and menu navigation. The ability to share high quality interactive content throughout the home, with guaranteed QoS and content protection, opens up significant new market opportunities for service providers and CE manufacturers of Set-top Boxes, HDTV Displays, Personal Video Recorders, DVD Players, Media Center PCs, and other multimedia devices.
“Pulse-LINK’s CWave® Whole-Home Interactive HD™ technology once and for all delivers on the promise of whole-home connectivity with No-New-Wires. We are sincerely honored to be recognized by leaders in our industry and to have CWave® showcased as an Innovations Award Honoree at the world’s largest consumer electronics show,” states John Santhoff, Pulse~LINK Founder and Chief Technology Officer. “This is a gratifying way to roll-out our CWave® products in 2007.”
Pulse~LINK will demonstrate its CWaveïf¤ technology in the TechHome TechZone (South Hall 2 Booth #26621) in addition to multiple high-profile partner booths at the 2007 International CES.
As a widely renowned consumer technology awards program that began in 1989, the prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering Awards recognize achievements in product design and engineering. It is sponsored by CEA, the producer of the International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the voice of industrial design, committed to advancing the profession through education, information, community and advocacy.
Pulse~LINK’s CWaveïf” UWB chipset will be displayed in Mini-PCI card form at the 2007 International CES, which runs January 8-11, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase will feature honorees by product category at Innovations Plus at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Booth #68747. New for 2007: High-Performance Audio (HPA) Innovations Honorees will also be exhibited in The Venetian on the third floor, across from the San Polo Ballroom. Best of Innovations honoree products will also displayed at the Grand Lobby of Las Vegas Convention Center, next to Experience CEA, and at CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES. Visit www.CESweb.org/innovations for details on Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Honorees.
Products entered into Innovations 2007 must be available to market to U.S. retail outlets or the company website between January 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. The Innovations entries are judged based on the following criteria:
Engineering qualities of the product, including technical specifications and materials used
The product’s intended use/function and user value
Aesthetic and design qualities (using visuals provided)
Unique and novel features
Contributions to consumers’ quality of life
Impact on the manufacturer’s business model
Products chosen as an Innovations honoree reflect innovative design and engineering of the entries. Examples may include the first time various technologies are combined in a single product or dramatic enhancements to previous product designs.
Innovations honoree products are featured on www.CESweb.org/Innovations, where you can see a list of product categories, as well as each product name, manufacturer information, designer, description, photo and URL.
About Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Pulse~LINK, Inc. is a privately held Delaware Corporation headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with nearly 300 issued and pending patents pertaining to UWB wired and wireless communications technology. Pulse~LINK’s CWave® solution provides up to Gigabit data rates over coax and wireless networks from the same chipset, enabling consumers the unprecedented ability to stream and distribute high quality multimedia content throughout the home. CWave® solutions have the ability to support both 1394 and Gigabit Ethernet over coax as well as wireless HDMI. For additional information about Pulse~LINK, Inc., please visit: http://www.pulselink.net.
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For More Information:
Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Laurie Watkins
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Mobile: (858) 349-1989
Email: lwatkins@pulselink.net