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Icron Technologies Corporation

Icron® is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative USB and DVI extension solutions. Icron’s extended range solutions solve the distance limitation of USB by increasing the maximum range of USB from 5 m/16 ft to over 2 km/1.24 mi.

Global Focus
Icron's technologies are being used worldwide in a diverse set of applications. It is being used to control supercomputers and to test satellites. It is being applied in aerospace, automobile manufacturing, movie production and entertainment venues.
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Industry Leader
Icron is a member of the USB Implementer's Forum. Icron's ExtremeUSB® technology is the only extension technology that has met the rigorous standards required by that body for product compliance testing. This achievement provides our customers with assurance of the quality of our products.

Bright Future
Icron believes that the industrial and commercial applications of USB will grow at the fastest pace if the enabling technology is highly accessible. To this end, Icron has made its technology available to the OEM market in a wide range of form factors.

Icron has recently expanded the applications of ExtremeUSB with the release of the WiRanger Cable Free USB 2.0 hub; the world's first wireless USB hub using 802.11g technology. The WiRanger is the latest addition to a rich portfolio of USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 extension solutions designed to meet the demanding and varied applications enabled with USB.

In addition to WiRanger and continuing ExtremeUSB platform developments, Icron has technology to enable USB to be used in harsh environments where EMI and ESD problems are prevalent. Icron will continue to develop solutions to problems that would limit the deployment of USB technology.

Licensing Programs
Icron has protected its innovations, building a portfolio of patents covering key techniques critical to the design of extending USB connections over a variety of media, including UTP, fibre and wireless. Icron is focused on licensing its intellectual property assets, particularly its ExtremeUSB technology, for the inclusion of its technology into a variety of customer applications.

Icron has signed numerous licensing agreements with companies wanting to utilize their patented technology and continues to pursue new agreements. As a result, Icron sees its Patent Licensing Program as a long-term source of revenue and growth.

Founded in 1998 and based in Vancouver, Canada, Icron is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. For more information, contact us online or call 604-638-3920.

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