Alereon was spun off from Time Domain Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama, in August 2003 taking with it a number of engineers, executives, and patents from its parent company.

[2] It initially backed the multi-band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing approach taken by the MultiBand OFDM Alliance.

[3] In October 2005, $20 million in financing included investors Centennial Ventures and Pharos Capital.

[4] After the IEEE effort was abandoned, the venture arm of Samsung Electronics invested $4 million in December 2006.

[5] By 2009, Brookman was still chief executive[6] and stepped down in 2014[7] to be replaced by David Shoemaker who was previously vice president of Engineering.