Redpine Signals announced that Network Products Guide, industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named its Maxi-Fi BEAM450 chipset a winner of the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Mobile and Wireless Solutions category.

The BEAM450 chipset provides three-stream IEEE 802.11n dual-band connectivity at up to 450Mbps data rates. Unlike a standard Wi-Fi chipset, this chipset supports innovative features that are critical for effective wireless operation in future emerging RF environments at homes and enterprises. It offers reconfigurable single-chip simultaneous dual-band capability wherein the chipset can be configured on-the-fly through software as either a 3x3 802.11n solution in 5GHz or simultaneous 2x2 11n in 5GHz and 1x1 802.11n in 2.4GHz.

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

"This esteemed industry and peer award recognition of Redpine's BEAM450 chipset by Network Products Guide is a great honor," said Venkat Mattela, CEO of Redpine Signals. "This further validates our position as a company poised to successfully overcome the issues in high performance wireless connectivity faced by organizations today."

These industry and peer recognitions from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 during the 7th annual dinner and presentations.