NIWOT, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/13/12 -- Today RIGOL Technologies, Inc. has become a Strategic Member of the LXI Consortium. The Strategic Membership includes a seat on the LXI Board of Directors. "We are honored and excited to have RIGOL join the Board of Directors. RIGOL has demonstrated leadership in the T&M market; they are a certified LXI conformance test house in Asia; and they are hosting the LXI China event with the LXI Consortium in May 2013 at their facility in Beijing. We look forward to their advice in securing a strong foundation for the LXI standard in Asia," said Steve Schink, president of the LXI Consortium.

Founded in 1998, RIGOL Technologies, Inc. is an ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System and ISO14001:2004 Environmental Management System Certified company, an emerging T&M leader and a technology innovator in Electronic Measurement and Chemical Analysis. RIGOL's premium line of products includes Digital Oscilloscopes, RF Spectrum Analyzers, Digital Multimeters, Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Digital Programmable Power Supplies, HPLC and UV-Vis Spectrophotometers, which help the engineers, researchers, and educators address their measurement challenges in confidence with affordability than even before.

RIGOL is headquartered in Beijing, China, with branch offices in Cleveland, Ohio and Munich, Germany, the company's 400 employees and more than 150 distributors or representatives offer products and services in over 60 countries/regions on six continents.

"We are pleased to upgrade our LXI membership to the Strategic level, and excited about being involved with the LXI development process. We look forward to working with other members in developing and promoting the next generation LXI test platform, especially in Asia," said Xing Fei, VP Marketing, RIGOL Technologies.

For more information on the LXI standard, visit the LXI website at http://www.lxistandard.org.

About LXI Consortium

The LXI Consortium, www.lxistandard.org, is a Test & Measurement standard-setting organization that develops, maintains and promotes the LXI Standard, and ensures interoperability between LXI conformant instruments.

With more than 55 of the top T&M companies sponsoring and developing this technology, and more than 1893 products in over 226 different product families, LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) is the current and future standard for test & measurement (T&M).

LXI is the fastest ramp-up of any communications standard in the history of the test industry and products from leading test and measurement companies.