[October 20, 2011]

Quantenna Partners With Sagemcom to Deliver High Performance Wi-Fi Whole-Home Networking Solutions

Quantenna Communications, Inc., a leader in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi networking for whole-home entertainment, and Sagemcom, a leader in broadband terminals, convergence, and energy solutions, today announced a collaborative agreement to integrate Quantenna's Wi-Fi technology in Sagemcom video bridges and other Wi-Fi products, accelerating time-to-market for advanced wireless video and TV services.

Quantenna's high performance 802.11n 4x4 MIMO solutions will enable Sagemcom to deliver value-added services to their subscribers that include the ability to stream and distribute HDTV along with other video content to multiple wireless devices in the home, such as Wi-Fi tablets and smartphones - with rock-solid whole home wireless coverage. This simplifies installation and enables a better home entertainment experience anywhere in the home.

As a result of this collaboration, Sagemcom will be able to more quickly deploy wireless services across almost any size home, even through multiple concrete walls and floors, to multiple devices simultaneously and reliably.

"The combined Quantenna and Sagemcom solution will deliver a whole new experience to consumers and enable us to rapidly deploy advanced video services," said Ahmed Selmani, deputy chief executive officer of Sagemcom Broadband. "We are very pleased to partner with Quantenna's best-in-class Wi-Fi solution and look forward to our continued involvement together."

"With our proven leadership and technology expertise in high perforance Wi-Fi 802.11n solutions, the partnership with Sagemcom brings services that accelerate the deployment of the next generation TV entertainment experience," said Lionel Bonnot, vice president, sales and business development with Quantenna. "With these new solutions, manufacturers and service providers worldwide will benefit from higher levels of performance and industry leading home networking coverage."

Quantenna's family of Full-11n™ chipsets uses the company's cost-optimized, third-generation 4x4 MIMO technology to deliver up to 600 Mbps of bandwidth. The chipsets enable manufacturers to build products for delivering IPTV (News - Alert) and other video streaming and data distribution services throughout the home over an ultra-reliable, high-performance Wi-Fi connection.

About Quantenna Communications, Inc.

Quantenna Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing standards-based 802.11n MIMO chipsets that deliver the highest levels of performance, speed and reliability for wireless networks and devices. Headquartered in Fremont, Calif., Quantenna has assembled a management and engineering team with a long track record of start-up success, and is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Sigma Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. For additional information, please visit www.quantenna.com.

About Sagemcom

French high-technology group with an international dimension, Sagemcom operates on markets of broadband (digital home, digital set-top box, broadband and residential terminals), telecom and energy (M2M, telecommunications infrastructure, smartgrid and metering), and management of documents (printing terminals, software and solutions, digital production workflow). With a turnover of over 1.4 billion Euros, Sagemcom employs 6 000 people on five continents; already a European leader in most of its key markets, Sagemcom aims to become a world leader in high added value communicating terminals. Sagemcom is strongly committed to sustainable development through the life cycle of its products: eco-design, energy consumption, ethical code of all its suppliers.

For more information: www.sagemcom.com.

Quantenna™, the logo, and Full-11n™ are the trademarks of Quantenna Communications and its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Wi-Fi® is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance (News - Alert). Any other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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