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Atheros Communications to host reception at
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference & Showcase
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase,
produced by Parks Associates in partnership with CEA®, is pleased to
announce XSPAN™ from Atheros Communications as the Wednesday
Reception
Sponsor for its 2006 event. CONNECTIONS™
will be held May 2-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
Calif.
CONNECTIONS™,
produced by Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA), is the largest executive conference and showcase
dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and
mobile environments. This year’s conference topics include digital
entertainment, mobile platforms & services, home networking &
infrastructure, home management & digital health, and broadband & IP
services.
Atheros Communications is a leading developer of semiconductor system
solutions for wireless communications products. XSPAN is Atheros’ family
of new performance 802.11n technologies that provide high throughput
anywhere in the home environment to support multiple, high-bandwidth
applications by multiple users—even in the far reaches of the home.
Atheros’ newest technology is being used by a broad base of leading
vendors of home networking equipment worldwide.
“The future value proposition for home networking is in delivering
enhanced and integrated data sharing, communications, and entertainment
functionality to connectivity solutions,” said
Kurt
Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates.
“The advance and improvement of wireless to address such issues as
throughput, range, and quality-of-service will be critical in delivering
this expanded value proposition. Atheros’ XSPAN™ solutions are a key
component to this development.”
“Atheros’ latest technology delivers a superior wireless user
experience for the digital home,” said Todd Antes, vice president of
marketing. “Our XSPAN family of high-performance, 802.11n solutions
expands the wireless possibilities for advanced applications like
streaming high-definition video, IP telephony or online gaming throughout
the home.”
Parks Associates projects that, as a measure of total devices linked in
home networks, the global opportunities for home connectivity solutions
will expand 250 percent between 2006 and 2010. More than 700 million home
networking nodes will be linked by the end of 2010, and multimedia and
entertainment devices will constitute approximately 30 percent of the
total.
For information about CONNECTIONS™, visit
http://www.connectionsconference.com, e-mail
sales@parksassociates.com,
or call 972-490-1113.
For more information about Atheros Communications, visit
http://www.atheros.com.
CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase is
hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates with support
from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) and is the
premier executive event focused on the market developments and
growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions.
This unique research-driven executive conference
and showcase, hosting close to 1,000 attendees each year,
delivers insight and recommendations for new business models and
opportunities in digital media/content, connected consumer
electronics, broadband and value-added services, and home
systems.
For information about CONNECTIONS™,
contact
sales@parksassociates.com or call 972-490-1113. For information on speaking,
sponsoring, or attending, please visit
www.connectionsconference.com.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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