Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. (Arrow Asia Pac) announced today a franchise distribution agreement to market Boston based Ember Corporation’s (Ember) ZigBee™ wireless mesh networking systems throughout Arrow’s 41 sales offices in 11 countries and territories in the Asia Pacific region.
“We are pleased to be working with Ember. Ember’s ZigBee system has become the preferred platform for embedded wireless networks for sensing and control applications,” said Richard Huxley, Vice President of Marketing, Arrow Asia Pac. “Ember’s products extend Arrow’s wireless semiconductor portfolio in Asia. Our industry leading design-in and technical service support complements well with Ember’s mature and feature-rich ZigBee platform and tools. We will deliver significant benefits to our customers in the industrial, home automation and telecommunication industries.”
“Partnering with one of Asia’s leading distributors will help proliferate ZigBee throughout the region,” said Tony Delgado, Asia/Pacific Business Development Director, Ember Corporation. “With the ZigBee market set to explode, customers are looking for low power, low cost, and scalable networking solutions. This partnership will enable us to leverage Arrow’s demand creation expertise and broad customer base.”
ZigBee is a wireless, standards-based radio technology designed for low-power mesh networking applications including home control and awareness, building automation, medical monitoring, industrial automation, asset management and homeland security.
About Ember Corporation
Ember enables communication among embedded microcontrollers with standards-based wireless mesh networking semiconductors and software. Ember helps its customers to automate home appliances, lower energy consumption in buildings, keep borders and infrastructure secure, and control industrial processes, just to name four of the many diverse applications being developed by Ember’s more than 100 customers. Spun out of MIT in 2001, Ember is headquartered in Boston and has its radio development center in Cambridge, England and distributors worldwide. Ember is a lead member of the ZigBee Alliance, and its platform is the National Technical Systems’ (NTS) “Golden Suite” for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing. For more information, please visit www.ember.com.
About Arrow Asia Pac
A subsidiary of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), Arrow Asia Pac is one of Asia Pacific’s leading electronic component distributors. In addition to its regional headquarters in Hong Kong, Arrow Asia Pac operates 41 sales offices, three primary distribution centers and ten local warehouses in eleven countries/territories across Asia.
Providing a full range of semiconductors, passive, electromechanical and connectors products from over 60 leading international suppliers, Arrow Asia Pac serves more than 10,000 original equipment and contract manufacturers and commercial customers in Asia Pacific. Visit us at www.arrowasia.com.
