SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entropic Communications, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ENTR - News), a leading provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced today that it is providing golden nodes to National Technical Systems (NTS) for certification testing of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance's newest specification extension, MoCA 1.1. Entropic's EN2210/EN1010 silicon received golden node certification by the board of directors of MoCA earlier this month.

Extending MoCA Leadership

Entropic's EN2210/EN1010 chipsets embedded in Ethernet-to-Coax bridges have been approved for use as golden nodes for MoCA 1.1 certification testing. Golden Nodes represent a superset of MoCA 1.1 nodes and will be used to certify the next generation of MoCA compliant devices. Entropic was actively engaged with MoCA's Certification Working Group to help define the advanced features of MoCA 1.1 and is proud to further the development of the standard.

``We are proud to leverage our advanced home networking chips to ensure future products are high performing and backward compatible,'' said John Graham, vice president of marketing at Entropic Communications. ``We look forward to working with our OEM partners to bring products with MoCA 1.1 functionality to market.''

Delivering MoCA 1.1 Functionality

MoCA 1.1 was defined to address the evolving needs of operators for more bandwidth, more device support and guaranteed quality of service. Entropic's EN2210 is the first MoCA 1.1 solution delivering up to 175 Mbps throughput, 16 node support and parameterized quality of service (PQoS) and with the intrinsic security of a shielded, wired connection combined with state of the art packet-level encryption. These vital components are designed to easily and cost-effectively distribute multiple streams of HD quality entertainment throughout the connected home of today and tomorrow.

Availability

MoCA golden nodes will be released to MoCA members under a licensing agreement with Entropic for product certification testing at NTS.

About Entropic Communications

Entropic Communications, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ENTR - News) is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets systems solutions to enable connected home entertainment. The company's technologies significantly change the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, please visit http://www.entropic.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute ``forward-looking statements.'' Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the advantages and deployment of Entropic's MoCA 1.1 technology. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Entropic's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the effects of competition; Entropic's dependence on a limited number of customers and ultimately service providers; Entropic's ability to introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis; the risk that the market for high-definition television-quality video and multimedia content delivery solutions may not develop as anticipated; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the ``Risk Factors'' section of Entropic's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2008. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Entropic is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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