Bangkok--7 Mar--LEWIS PR
Innovative Networking Company Honoured Again by World’s Most Prestigious Awards Program for Industrial Design Excellence
NETGEAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced that it has received the prestigious 2006 GOOD DESIGN TM Award for the innovative, cutting-edge design of its RangeMax Next family of draft-802.11n wireless routers, gateways and access points. Organised by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, the GOOD DESIGN competition honours the world’s best industrial designers and manufacturers in their pursuit of design excellence. The sleek, modern white enclosure of the RangeMax Next line — codenamed “Monroe” — was recognised in the program’s electronics category.
“We firmly believe our innovative RangeMax Next family of networking products embody our company’s charter - to provide devices that exceed industry standards for performance, ease-of-use, dependability and stylishness,” said Vincent Low, regional director for Southeast Asia of NETGEAR. “To receive yet another enviable design award is a testament to our engineers and our design firm, NewDealDesign, for their commitment to successfully fusing technology excellence and chic.”
The GOOD DESIGN Award is the most desirable design accolade in the world, recognising products and industry leaders in design and manufacturing that have chartered new directions and pushed the envelope for competitive products in the world marketplace. Since 1950, the GOOD DESIGN program has emphasised quality design of the highest form, function and aesthetic — a standard beyond ordinary consumer products.
Products submitted for the program are judged by a collection of distinguished design professionals, leading industry specialists and design press on criteria established in the original 1950 program. Elements the judges look for in award-winning products include innovative design, new technologies, form, materials, construction, concept, function, utility, energy efficiency and sensitivity to the environment. NETGEAR’s RangeMax Next was selected as having met the program’s rigorous criteria and tests for absolute design excellence.
This marks NETGEAR’s fourth such coveted design award in two years, and the second for NETGEAR’s RangeMax Next enclosure, which recently garnered Japan’s prominent 2006 GOOD DESIGN Award. Additionally, NETGEAR’s “Platinum II” enclosure — for more than two dozen NETGEAR devices — won a GOOD DESIGN TM Award in 2004.
About NETGEAR, Inc.
NETGEAR(R) (Nasdaq: NTGR) designs technologically advanced, branded networking products that address the specific needs of small and medium business and home users. The Company's product offerings enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers and other Internet-enabled devices. NETGEAR is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.netgear.com
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