Ethertronics, the leading developer and manufacturer of high performance internal antennas for wireless devices, today announced that it has been awarded the 2003 Industry Leadership Award by Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine. In a competition between established and up-and-coming external and internal antenna makers, Ethertronics was singled out as the company that has made the most significant contributions through their technology to the antenna industry this year.
"Ethertronics has shown exceptional and consistent leadership this year for its ground-breaking technology, commitment to excellence, the breadth of its product offerings and for the marquee customers worldwide who have endorsed its cutting-edge antenna technology," said Jeremy Martin, Editor of Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine. "We congratulate Ethertronics on winning the prestigious Industry Leadership Award."
"We are deeply honored to be awarded this year's Industry Leadership Award by Antenna Systems & Technology Magazine, one of the premier publications covering our market. We've been very fortunate this year to have received the endorsement of a number of marquee customers, who are implementing our patented antenna technology in a variety of exciting new wireless products for the cellular and wireless LAN markets," commented Bruce Gray, chief executive officer of Ethertronics. "Much of the credit for this award goes to our top-notch engineering team, which continues to push the envelope in terms of innovative antenna design and performance, and our operations team which has successfully delivered product in high-volume to some of the most demanding companies in the world."
When Ethertronics first burst onto the mobile device antenna scene in 2000, the industry had remained virtually unchanged for more than a decade. Wireless products employed the same external antenna designs (whips and stubs) and a variety of lower performing internal antenna designs (patch, PIFA, etc.). Both designs had drawbacks. Internal antennas, in particular, have historically lost about 50% of their efficiency as their RF signals were absorbed or deflected by their host devices, while external antennas continued to prove problematic for both product manufacturers and end users due to breakage and repair costs.
Meanwhile, Ethertronics has been quietly perfecting and patenting a ground-breaking new embedded antenna technology, Isolated Magnetic Dipole™ (IMD), which represents a drastic paradigm shift in the way antennas are designed and integrated inside wireless devices. IMD antennas deliver unparalleled levels of isolation and efficiency through a variety of design parameters offering the best of both worlds. The technology also utilizes proprietary "shaping technology", which controls and re-directs the near-field electromagnetic distribution of the antenna's wave, while minimizing the interaction with surrounding objects or components. The result of these features is optimal performance in terms of range, data speeds and battery life.
The company markets its breakthrough internal antenna products to wireless device manufacturers in the Cellular, WLAN, Bluetooth and GPS markets. The antennas are ideally-suited for single and multi-frequency applications and diversity configurations for mobile phones, notebook computers, LAN cards and access points.
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About Ethertronics
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Ethertronics designs and manufactures the industry's only Isolated Magnetic Dipole™ (IMD) internal/embedded antennas for personal and industrial wireless devices. Used in cellular and wireless LAN applications such as phones, notebooks, LAN cards and PDAs, IMD antennas provide longer range, increased signal strength and improved voice/data quality inside buildings, in noisy environments and in fringe network coverage areas. For more information about Ethertronics, visit the company's web site at: www.ethertronics.com.
