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About Flarion
Company
The PC 1000 wireless network card is produced by Flarion Technologies, Inc. of
Bedminster, New Jersey (USA). Flarion is a privately-held firm, which was founded
in 2000 when its original research & development team and technology were spun
out of Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies. Flarion is backed by a strong group of
investors that include Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Cisco
Systems, Equitek Capital, New Venture Partners, Nassau Capital, Pequot Capital,
and SK Telecom.
Technology
Flarion’s patent-pending flash-OFDM™ technology was invented at Bell Labs in 1998
by a team of distinguished scientists, led by Flarion’s founder, Dr. Rajiv Laroia. It is
a digital spread-spectrum based technology that divides its wireless signal into
equally spaced frequency tones, each of which carries a portion of a user’s
transmitted data. A tone can be thought of as a frequency, in the same way each
key on a piano represents a unique frequency. The flash-OFDM signal has a special
property that allows its receiver to clearly interpret each tone – without interference
from the other tones. The result is a breakthrough in wireless performance and a
truly broadband connection for mobile data communications.
Products
Flarion has incorporated its flash-OFDM technology into its flagship products, the
PC 1000 Wireless Network Card for end users and the RadioRouter™ Network for
wireless service providers. The company’s PC 1000 wireless network card enables
users’ laptops, PDAs and other PCMCIA-compatible devices to connect wirelessly
with their service provider’s RadioRouter network at average speeds of 1.5
Megabits per second. Flarion’s system provides truly broadband access to the
Internet with cellular-like coverage and mobility.
