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Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL — July 30, 2006 —
Yitran Communications Ltd., a leading supplier of PLC
(Power Line Communication) technology, has signed a
Memorandum of understanding with Haier – a Chinese
giant appliances manufacturer, defining close
collaboration between the companies and the
promotion of YITRAN IT800 technology to become a new
PLC standard for Home Networking. The latter will be
decided by the Home Network Standard Workgroup. The
Home Network Standard Workgroup, which was
established last year consists of over 20 leading
companies, including top appliance manufacturers,
system integrators and technology vendors. It has
already formed a Home Network standard based on
wireless communication technology, and now is
willing to extend its activities and define PLC
technology based national Home Network standard for
China.
"We are very excited to take part in this activity of
setting a standard for the rapidly growing Chinese
Home Network market", said Avner Matmor, Yitran's
CEO. "Over the last few years our IT800 PLC
technology has already been selected as part of the
home network standards in the US (HomePlug Command
Control), Japan (Echonet), Korea (HNCP). Therefore
we believe Chinese Home Network Standard Workgroup
will find it very suitable for China Home Network
market. The IT800 PLC technology has become the
de-facto standard in a constantly growing number of
countries and markets. Its performance and
reliability are high while keeping costs low. We
have IT800 technology covering all these points ".
"We have evaluated different PLC technologies and
Yitran’s IT800
could meet the requirement for home automation” said Mr. Wang Gang, Senior Manager at Haier and the Chairman of
Home Network Standard Workgroup. "We believe that
Yitran's technology is well equipped to handle the
rough conditions of the power line grids in China.
Yitran’s technology has already proved itself and is
being adopted by Home Network forums in other
countries.
The good performance would make IT800 become the one
of the best choices for home network products
".
About
Yitran Communications Ltd.
A fabless semiconductor company, Yitran Communications
Ltd. designs, develops, and markets high
performance, low cost PLC (Power Line
Communication) modem chips and systems.
Yitran’s products provide robust and reliable
communication over the existing electrical wiring
and power grids. The technology enables a variety
of "No New Wires" applications, such as Home
Automation, Command & Control, AMR (Automatic Meter
Reading) and Internet distribution over power lines
(in hotels and MDU/MTU markets). Yitran's customer
and partner lists include leading companies, such
as Renesas, Matsushita Electric Works, Hitachi,
KEPCO, Kinden, LG and Microsoft. For further
details:
http://www.yitran.com/
About
Haier.
Haier
is the world’s 4th largest white goods manufacturer
and one of China’s Top 100 electronics and IT
companies. Haier specializes in technology research,
manufacture, trading and financial services. Haier
2005 global revenue was RMB103.9 billion (USD12.8
billion).
http://www.haier.com/
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SOURCE: YITRAN Communications Ltd.
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