Entropic, Intellon Combine MoCA & HomePlug

SAN DIEGO and ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dedicated to accelerating seamless, ubiquitous home networking, Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, and Intellon Corporation (Nasdaq:ITLN), a leading provider of HomePlug(R)-compatible integrated circuits (ICs) for home networking, networked entertainment, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) and smart grid applications, today announced they are collaborating to accelerate the availability of home networking solutions combining coaxial cable and powerline communications.

Taking advantage of each company's leadership, expertise and field proven implementations of their respective technologies, the Entropic-Intellon relationship will bring together solutions based on the most prominent, reliable and widely distributed home networking wired standards available today: MoCA(R)-Multimedia over Coax andHomePlug(R) AV (HPAV). With a combined total of more than 55 million MoCA and HomePlug enabled home networking devices around the world, the two companies are committed to continuing to improve the connected home entertainment experience. Aligning the capabilities of Entropic's MoCA and Intellon's HPAV solutions will ensure continued compatibility with tens of millions of devices already deployed by service providers and consumers throughout the world and offer customers a solid pathway to the highly anticipated MoCA 2.0 and HPAV2 standards, which are expected to enable PHY rates in excess of 1Gbps.

"Customers are continuing to tell us that MoCA and HPAV together offer an unbeatable wireline communications solution, both today and tomorrow," said Rick E. Furtney, president and chief operating officer, Intellon. "Our collaboration with Entropic is intended to meet the immediate market demand for these market-leading solutions while we work closely on next-generation technologies that will offer even higher multi-wire bandwidth with backwards compatibility to current de facto standards."

Entropic Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTR)

Intellon Corp. (Nasdaq: ITLN)