Although it received its first round of financing and was incorporated in 2002, RDW has been building IEEE 802.16x technology from as early as 1998. Recognizing that the world will eventually revolve around both OFDM (wireless) and IP (Internet), the RDW founders decided to pioneer their way directly into the inevitable future of wireless communication.

In early 2003, when other Wi-Fi chip vendors were still developing IEEE 802.11bg MAC/Baseband, RDW debuted an IEEE 802.11abg MAC/Baseband fitted for embedded multimedia. The product was TripleBand. With expertise in the system product as well as certification know-how, TripleBand was quickly certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as well as Microsoft WHQL.

In December of 2004, almost a year before the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard was ratified; RDW planned to tape out IEEE 802.16d hybrid 802.11abg MAC/Baseband chipset. In Q3 of 2005, the design-ready product was MaxBand (a WiMAX/Wi-Fi hybrid chipset).

March 2006 saw RDW display MaxBand’s multimedia capabilities at the CeBIT trade show, in Hannover, Germany. With its physically compact reference design, practicality in mass installation, and its ability to enable cost-effective design, MaxBand sparked a lot of international interest.

RDW continues to pursue its next target of IEEE 802.16-2005 (or 802.16e), where the market revenue is expected to reach the billion quantity scale in the year 2010.

In order to extend RDW’s interaction with equipment manufacturers, align its development plans around a worldwide market, provide products that meet end customers' feature requirements, influence the standards in the making, and to actively participate in WiMAX Forum-sponsored trade shows, RDW announced its plan to join the WiMAX Forum in June 2006 and has since become the WiMAX Forum’s principle member. Today, RDW is one of the most active leaders in the realm of WiMAX.