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Press Release
Sonance/iPort™ Signs
Licensing Agreement with Russound
SAN CLEMENTE, March, 2008 — Dana
Innovations, corporate parent of Sonance and iPort
music systems for the iPod®, has announced an
agreement with Russound, a leader in multiroom
audio, to license its unique iPod-integrating technologies.
“We’re thrilled to be able to be able to
share the key enabling technologies of iPort with Russound,”
says Shawn Sugarman, President of Dana Innovations. “Russound
is ideally positioned to leverage
our organization’s proprietary, patented innovations,
bringing their benefits to customers in
multiroom systems and products that extend our scope
in important areas.”
Dana Innovations’ patented iPort concept and
technologies encompass “docking” structures
able to
accept the full range of Apple iPod models and other
handheld audio players, and of delivering full
control including audio playback and file-selection,
throughout a multi-zone audio system. iPort’s
unique technology also incorporates hardware and firmware
that enable personal computers to
integrate iPod control and audio-file transfer via
the in-wall dock, integrating and synchronizing the
audio system with the Mac/PC’s media library.
iPort technology is suitable for a wide range of
audio and audio-video system concepts, including highly
customizable multiroom and whole-house
layouts, multiroom AV receivers, single-room/zone connections,
and more.
New Hampshire-based Russound is the market leader in
multiroom audio AV components and
systems for custom installation. Says Russound CEO
Joe Brouillet, “We’re pleased to have this
opportunity to license the Dana/Sonance iPort patent.
It will serve to strengthen Russound’s
position as a market leader in the iPod docking category,
and in future product designs shaped to
answer our customers’ needs."
About Russound
Since 1967, innovation, quality and reliability have
been the pillars of the Russound® product
tradition. Located in Newmarket, N.H., Russound, the
#1 brand in multiroom audio*, offers the
products and expertise customers need to enjoy multiroom
audio and video systems in the home.
With more than 40 years experience, Russound continues
to cater to installation professionals and
their customers by pairing powerful systems using the
latest technologies with intuitive controls to
give customers high-performance, easy-to-use solutions.
For more information, visit the company¹s
web site at www.russound.com.
*According to June 2005, 2006 and 2007 studies by EH
Research
About iPort
iPort, maker of the first in-wall music system for
iPod, provides freedom from the constraints of
headphones. iPort makes it possible to easily share
music and photos through any home stereo or
entertainment system. Using innovative technology and
unique design iPort is committed to
producing products that are stylish, inventive, and
as simple to use as the iPod.
iPort is the innovation of Scott Struthers, co-founder of Sonance, developer of the first high fidelity in-wall speaker, and
a founding member of CEDIA.
iPort is a registered trademark of Dana Innovations
Media Contact
Lucette Nicoll / Chet Murray • Nicoll Public
Relations
Tel: 781.762.9300 • chet@nicollpr.com
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