Alpha Micro Signs Up With Taoglas Antennas

Alpha Micro Components, a leading independent distributor of electronic components, has signed a distribution contract with Taoglas, a producer of high performance antennas, designed to address the growing demand for wireless modems The new collaboration will offer affordable, high-quality antennas to compliment Alpha Micro Components’ range of wireless embedded and standalone solutions implementing GSM/GPRS, GPS and WiFi technologies.

Based in Ireland with offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Taoglas is a fast growing company providing both standard and custom antenna design.

Taoglas chose Alpha Micro for its expertise in providing and supporting wireless communications products and its reputation for ensuring excellent customer service and support.

Christos Papakyriacou, Managing Director, Alpha Micro Components commented: “Alpha Micro has been supplying wireless solutions based around GPRS and 802.11 technologies for a number of years. By partnering with Taoglas who are experts in their field, we are now able to offer our customers an excellent range of antennas that can be tuned to meet their exact requirements. We are extremely pleased to have been chosen to represent Taoglas in the UK as they have a great range of GPS, GSM, Bluetooth and WiFi products which will be suited to many of our customers' requirements and complement our existing franchise product lines.”
For more information: http://www.alphamicro.net/components/

Issued: November 2006 ENDS Ref am269

For more information please contact:
John Moore, Sales and Marketing Director
Alpha Micro Components
Springfield House, Cranes Road Sherborne St. John Basingstoke
Tel: 01256 851 770 Fax: 01256 851 771 Email: sales@alphamicro.net

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About Alpha Micro Components www.alphamicro.net
Founded in 1995, Alpha Micro is a specialist semiconductor and electronics distributor in the telecom, datacoms, security and EPoS markets. A “design based” distributor offering a comprehensive technical support package ranging from hardware and software application support through to complete turnkey designs. With offices across the globe, including UK headquarters in Hampshire and bases in Ireland and the United States, Alpha Micro currently carries 13 franchised product lines from which include Teridian Semiconductors, Lantronix and Sagem as well as the company’s own “AMC” range.
Much of the equipment found on high streets throughout the UK and elsewhere contains Alpha Micro components. Alpha Micro’s past projects include datacoms, telemetry, points of sale, telecommunications and security with new contracts in the financial and banking sectors, global asset management and Machine-to-Machine communication implementing new GPRS and GPS technologies. Alpha Micro’s customers include market leaders such as: Dione, Honeywell, Hewlett Packard, Blackspot, Axalto, Verifone and euroConex.