Company Overview

NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR) designs technologically advanced, branded networking products that address the specific needs of small business and home users. The Company's product offerings enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers and other Internet-enabled devices. These products are grouped into three major product portfolios: Ethernet Networking Products, Broadband Products and Wireless Products. Ethernet Networking Products include Ethernet adapters, hubs, switches and accessories. Broadband Products include secured wired and wireless routers and gateways. Gateways are routers with integrated broadband modems and / or voice over Internet connections. Wireless Products include adapters, access points, antennas and accessories.

NETGEAR is focused on the networking needs of the small business, which the Company defines as businesses with fewer than 250 employees, and home markets. As a result of NETGEAR's strong brand name, the execution of its operating strategy and the growth in demand for networking products within small and medium businesses and homes, the Company has grown the annual revenue to over $700M a year.

NETGEAR's diverse global sales channel includes thousands of value added resellers (VARs), direct market resellers (DMRs), such as CDW, traditional retailers with over 37,000 outlets worldwide, including Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Fry's Electronics, and Staples in North America, and PC World in the United Kingdom and MediaMarkt in Germany, as well as online retailers such as Amazon.com, Dell.com and NewEgg.com. In addition, the Company sells its products through broadband service providers such as BSkyB, Virgin Media UK, YouSee Denmark, Telecom Denmark, Time-Warner Cable, Comcast, TV Cabo Portugal, Telkom South Africa, J:Com of Japan and Comhem of Sweden.