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Download Episode 3 Free at its Web site and iTunes.com ; Episodes 1 and 2 are Available too. Episode 3 of RapidIO Radio from the RapidIO Trade Association is immediately available for download. The third in a series, "RapidIO Delivers the Flexibility and Scalability Needed to Achieve Modular Wireless Infrastructure Design," explores some of the critical design issues facing the wireless infrastructure design community, and ways RapidIO technology has solved these challenges while delivering superior performance. The program is hosted by Tom Cox, the executive director of the RapidIO Trade Association, and features Bill Beane, senior product manager, FCM Division for IDT. The final 2006 podcast is scheduled for November. The RapidIO Trade Association and its global members drive the RapidIO interconnect architecture. This ISO-certified, open-standard seamlessly enables the chip-to-chip, board-to-board, control, backplane and data plane interconnections needed in high-performance networking, communications and embedded systems. The growth of the RapidIO ecosystem in 2005 seeded deployment of RapidIO technology in next generation wireless infrastructure, edge networking and military systems. Detailed information on the RapidIO specification, products, design tools, member companies, and membership is available at its Web site .