PARIS -- Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM - News), today announced its new AR7420 chipset, which it will be demonstrating at the Broadband World Forum conference, September 27 – 29 in Paris, France. The AR7420 enables devices that provide fast, wired networking connectivity through existing household electrical wiring for consumers and service providers who offer connectivity solutions. Samples of the AR7420 chip will be available during calendar fourth quarter 2011.

The AR7420 is a powerline communications (PLC) transceiver IC that enables the world's smallest, highest performing and lowest power HomePlug AV-based and IEEE 1901-compliant products yet deployed. The chipset is the latest in Qualcomm Atheros' AMP Powerline technology portfolio, and it is optimized for embedded solutions and small form-factor standalone adapters. The AR7420 is specifically designed for multi-media applications and delivers up to 500 Mbps of powerline performance in a cost-effective approach to support high throughput connectivity for broad consumer adoption in high volume applications.

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PARIS -- Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM - News), and EDIMAX Technology, a leading provider of networking solutions, today announced the availability of a new carrier-grade video-over-wireless (VoW) bridge based on the Qualcomm Atheros AR9580 chip at the Broadband World Forum conference in Paris, France. The EDIMAX WV-A900APN enables seamless, carrier-grade multi-HD video streaming throughout the home and is ideal for glitch-free in-home video services distribution.

Qualcomm Atheros' three-stream 802.11n solutions are optimized for high-performance VoW applications. The AR9580 integrates Qualcomm Atheros' signal-sustain technology to virtually eliminate packet loss, thereby minimizing latency and providing error-free transmissions. The resulting bridge provides a better experience for end users due to a number of quality-of-service enhancements, including transmit buffering, video stream optimization and range improvement.

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PARIS -- Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM - News), and Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ:MSPD - News), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced a joint embedded video-over-Wi-Fi solution and an integrated board using Qualcomm Atheros' new three-stream 802.11n chip, the AR9580. Qualcomm Atheros' Wi-Fi solutions are now fully integrated with Mindspeed's Comcerto 1000 broadband packet processors, providing a seamless development experience for original equipment and design manufacturers (OEMs and ODMs). By choosing the joint reference design, OEMs and ODMs can reduce their engineering investment and speed time-to-market, as well as ensure greater throughput at range due to the up-front integration work of Mindspeed and Qualcomm Atheros.

The embedded solution is a significant step forward in processing voice- and video-over-IP media streams in next-generation media gateways and systems performing the media resource function processing (MRFP) for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) networks. Key applications include video and voice content conversion in support of telephony, multimedia messaging services (MMS) and video ad insertion.

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