Airgo Networks

Top Tier Funding and World Leading Team

Founded in 2000, Airgo has raised three rounds of funding totaling $52 million from leading venture capitalist firms including Accel Partners, Nokia Venture Partners, OVP Venture Funds, and Sevin Rosen Funds. Airgo's engineering and management team comprises many of the wireless industry's most accomplished leaders. The experts at Airgo include the original pioneers in MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology, the architect for much of the wireless technology used today in the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standards, the developers of both the Apple Airport and Intel Centrino wireless LAN RF chipset solutions, and a leading team of wireless networking software and wireless network management innovators.

About Airgo Networks, Inc.

Airgo Networks develops breakthrough technology and Wireless LAN products that enable mainstream adoption and new applications by vastly improving the quality and convenience of the Wireless LAN user experience. Airgo's networking solutions, based on the IEEE 802.11 standard (also known as Wi-Fi), reduce the cost of ownership for WLAN and remove limitations of today's WLAN products. Airgo's technology gives users secure, easy-to-use, standards-compliant WLAN capability that works in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The breakthrough wireless technology provides performance for even the most bandwidth-intensive applications -- truly eliminating the need for wires at home, at work, and in public places. The core team at Airgo comprises a world-renowned group of wireless product and technology entrepreneurs from Agere Systems, Bell Labs, Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Nortel Networks, and Royal Philips Electronics. Airgo's founders include founders of Clarity Wireless, a company that revolutionized OFDM wireless technology and was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. Airgo's founders also include key technologists from Agere who invented the latest generation of Wireless LAN standards technology. The company's main office is in Palo Alto, California, USA, and it has development centers located in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Breukelen, The Netherlands. News and information are available at www.airgonetworks.com.

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