Actiontec's Next Generation Wireless Broadband Router Selected to Power Verizon FiOS...

Actiontec's Next Generation Wireless Broadband Router Selected to Power
Verizon FiOS Deployment
New home gateway platform breaks performance record with industry first
dual-core, 64-bit processor

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Actiontec Electronics today
announced that its next generation wireless broadband router has been selected
to power Verizon's FiOS Internet Service. Already a key vendor in the FiOS
architecture, Actiontec has been providing Verizon with customer premise
equipment for more than five years. This latest product selection further
strengthens the relationship between the two companies and confirms
Actiontec's leading position in the smart home gateway market.
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Actiontec's latest wireless broadband router (Model # MI424-WR) sets a new
industry benchmark for performance. As a result, Verizon and other service
providers can increase service speeds beyond 100 Mbps and better meet the
needs of an increasingly sophisticated consumer base by rolling out multiple
value-added, bandwidth-intensive applications, such as parental controls,
online gaming, music, live sports, children's entertainment, movies and
television programming.
To achieve this unprecedented performance level, Actiontec's router
features an advanced hardware design including an industry-first 64-bit,
dual-core processor. The router's 64-bit architecture provides a 10-15%
performance improvement over the 32-bit standard deployed today. The router's
latest MIPS core offers further performance improvement and additional
instructions for networking applications reducing the number of cycles needed
for even greater CPU efficiency.
Additionally, the router features hardware-level Quality of Service (QoS)
with eight input channels and eight output channels. This innovative design
frees the CPU for other bandwidth needs, and ensures that providers can
deliver multiple high quality video streams without any dropped frames, frozen
frames, or other performance issues that can degrade video and television
service and impede IPTV adoption.
"Our goal is to stay on the leading edge of the broadband home gateway
market and keep developing new technologies that help our customers lower
their operating and capital costs, as well as roll out a new generation of
enhanced, differentiated applications," said Dean Chang, CEO of Actiontec.
"We're proud that Verizon has again selected our equipment for their FiOS
service and we look forward to continuing our partnership to give consumers
faster speeds, greater entertainment and communication choices, and a
consistently positive end user experience."
"The residential gateway serves as a lynchpin in not only providing
consumers with seamless access to multiple services, but also as the
foundation for emerging broadband value-added services, which are projected to
add $1.3 billion in additional broadband service revenues by 2012," said Kurt
Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates.
"Actiontec's wireless broadband router -- with its increased performance --
characterizes the importance of advanced broadband customer premise equipment
that will support future service provider initiatives."
Actiontec continues to exceed the delivery, reliability, and support
expectations of its key customers. To date, the company has shipped over 16
million Internet access devices and continues to be a revenue leader in the
home gateway market.
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a
leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication
innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.
Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving
nearly 66 million customers nationwide. Verizon's Wireline operations include
Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to
customers around the world, and Verizon Telecom, which brings customers the
benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services
over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company,
Verizon employs a diverse workforce of nearly 235,000 and last year generated
consolidated operating revenues of $93.5 billion. For more information, visit
http:/www.verizon.com.
About Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
Actiontec Electronics develops broadband connectivity and
broadband-powered solutions that simplify and enrich the digital life --
delivering a unified experience that encompasses communications,
entertainment, home management, and more. Actiontec offerings range from the
market's broadest selection of IPTV-capable broadband home gateways for
bringing IP-based video services into the home, to DSL modems, wireless
networking devices, routers and digital entertainment devices. The company's
carrier-class products are easy to install, manage, and use, and are sold
through retail channels and broadband service providers. Founded in 1993,
Actiontec is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and maintains branch offices in
Colorado Springs, CO; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan. For more
information, call 408-752-7700 or visit http://www.actiontec.com.
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SOURCE Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

Brian Blank of FutureWorks PR, +1-408-910-4460, brianb@future-works.com, for
Actiontec Electronics, Inc.; or Lesley Kirchman of Actiontec Electronics,
+1-408-752-7700, ljkirchman@actiontec.com