Pulse~LINK Joins HANA Board of Directors
HANA Members Work Together to Enhance the Home Entertainment Experience
BEAVERTON, OREGON - March 31, 2008 - The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) today announced that Pulse~LINK, Inc. has increased its support for HANA and has become a promoter member. In addition, Pulse~LINK is now a member of the organization's board of directors. Pulse~LINK, a staunch supporter of HANA, was a founding member of HANA in 2005. HANA is a cross-industry alliance of member companies dedicated to providing consumers with a proven and simple way to bring HD to life throughout their home.
"HANA is pleased to welcome Pulse~LINK to its board as it has been a valuable contributor to our technical and marketing work groups since the beginning," said Dr. Heemin Kwon, HANA President. "All of our members have been instrumental in designing the HANA solution that uses a single connection, an easy to use interface and a single remote to enable the sharing of HD content across A/V devices anywhere in the home. Additional support from Pulse~LINK will only improve the speed that HANA is able to turn its vision for a whole-home networking solution into reality. It's only a matter of time before consumers will have a simple and secure way to access their HD content from any device in their home."
"We have been keen supporters of the HANA mission since its founding, and we are ready to take the next step to help steer HANA as its moves from developing guidelines to helping companies get HANA products on the shelf," said Bruce Watkins, Pulse~LINK President and COO. "Our CWave® UWB 1394-Over-Coax technology supports the HANA home networking solution and we look forward to increased collaboration with our fellow members."
Pulse~LINK is a fabless semiconductor company that delivers a solution capable of whole-home, high-data-rate networking with guaranteed Quality of Service. Its CWave® 1394-Over-Coax solution distributes HD content securely over a home's existing coax cabling.
For more information about HANA and its 2008 roadmap, visit www.hana.org. To learn more about Pulse~LINK, visit www.pulselink.net.
About HANA
Launched in December 2005, HANA is a cross-industry collaboration of members addressing the end-to-end needs of connected, HD, home entertainment products and services. The membership includes leading companies from the four industries most impacted by the HD revolution: Content Providers, Consumer Electronics, Service Providers and Information Technology. HANA is working to create design guidelines for secure high-definition audio-video networks that will speed the creation of new, high quality, easy to use HD products. HANA membership is open to all companies involved in the digital entertainment industry. Additional information is available at www.HANAalliance.org.
About Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Pulse~LINK, Inc. is a privately held Delaware Corporation headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with over 300 issued and pending patents pertaining to UWB wired and wireless communications. Pulse~LINK's CWave® UWB technology, FCC approved and commercially shipping in 2007, is a "no-new-wires" solution that delivers up to Gigabit data rates over coax and wireless networks from the same chipset, providing consumers with the unprecedented ability to distribute high quality multimedia content throughout the home. CWave® solutions support simultaneous operation of 1394, Gigabit Ethernet, and HDMI over coax and wireless connections. For additional information about Pulse~LINK, Inc., please visit: http://www.pulselink.net.
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