HelloSoft Introduces Industry’s First Fully Customizable Wireless LAN IP Solution

HelloWLAN solution ideal for a variety of markets including residential gateway, military, PC, cellular, consumer electronics, and wireless

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 3, 2003 – HelloSoft, Inc. today announced its family of customizable Wireless LAN Solutions, HelloWLAN™ consisting of the complete Physical Layer and Protocols for the IEEE 802.11-series Wireless LAN standards, including security. It is available as ‘designer-tailored’ licensable IP for semiconductor vendors and OEMs. The solution is unique in that it is fully customizable, allowing developers to specify the hardware/software partitioning for their specific target platforms to optimally leverage existing resources and to minimize additional hardware costs.

“The atomization of WLAN functionality into hardware and software modules alleviates the burden of adding Wireless LAN to an existing subsystem,” said Will Strauss, President of Forward Concepts. “From a cost and resource standpoint hardware/software partitioning makes sense and is obviously the trend moving forward.”

“The HelloWLAN™ is the most highly integrated, feature rich, flexible WLAN solution in the market today,” stated Krishna Yarlagadda, President and CEO, HelloSoft. “HelloSoft’s solution provides developers the flexibility by allowing them to customize the 802.11 protocol to meet their requirements, and is ideal for numerous market applications. Additionally, HelloSoft’s advanced design and patented algorithms reduce power consumption, design complexity and total system cost.”

The HelloWLAN™ family supports all Physical Layer standards (802.11b, a, g) and MAC/LLC standards and extensions (802.11, 802.2, 802.11e, 802.11i). Configurations included in the family are:

Complete PHY and MAC in software
PHY in RTL and full MAC in software
PHY, Security algorithms in RTL and remaining MAC in Software
PHY, Security algorithms, CP engine, Fragmentation/De-fragmentation in RTL and partial MAC in Software
Complete PHY and MAC in RTL

HelloSoft will be exhibiting at the Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo, Booth 433, in San Jose, California, December 3 through December 5, 2003.

About HelloSoft
HelloSoft licenses customizable Physical Layer and Networking Protocol IP to semiconductor companies and OEMs for Voice-Over-Packet, Wireless LAN, and 2.5G/3G Wireless. HelloSoft’s solutions are provided as a suite of integrated products that include DSP software, Networking software, RTL, a complete reference design and design services to customize these solutions to customer needs. Through this total solutions approach and strategy of offering Software and Hardware IP and engineering services, HelloSoft allows companies to acquire "off-the-shelf" technology that can accelerate new product development in an industry that is driven by complexity, change and innovation. For more information visit www.hellosoft.com.

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