Azimuth Systems Partners With Rice University's Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) Group

ACTON, MA, May 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Azimuth Systems, Inc., a leading provider of wireless broadband test
equipment and channel emulators, today announced that the company has
partnered with the Center for Multimedia Communication, home of the
Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) Group at Rice University.
Azimuth will provide Rice University with an ACE(TM) channel emulator to
enable extensive research on advanced transceiver architectures including
beamforming, sphere detection and cooperative communications, to be
conducted during the summer of 2009. In addition to allowing direct
testing capabilities for MIMO projects, Azimuth and Rice University plan
to collaborate on several research projects, which are poised to become
part of 4G wireless.

A scalable and extensible programmable wireless platform, WARP was built
from the ground up to prototype advanced wireless networks. The
open-access WARP repository allows exchange and sharing of new physical
and network layer architectures to build a true community platform, and is
currently in use at 50+ research organizations. Recognizing the importance
of beamforming to increase the range of MIMO systems, the WARP Research
Group chose the ACE MIMO channel emulator due to its best-in-class RF
fidelity, along with its ability to emulate wireless over-the-air
conditions in both the downlink and uplink paths simultaneously. In
addition, WARP researchers will use the emulator for advanced experiments
in cooperative communications, cognitive wireless, interference management
and multi-hop mesh networks.

"With the goal of enabling both hands-on wireless education and the
pooling of ideas via open-access research, the WARP project is constantly
seeking assistance from wireless communication leaders like Azimuth
Systems," said Ashutosh Sabharwal, director of the CMC and lead PI of the
WARP project at Rice University. "The advanced features of the ACE
provide us with unmatched testing capabilities, which will allow us to
build proof-of-concept prototypes for next-generation technologies on
WARP. Our experimental results will provide deep insights into
operational networks, which often require a complex mix of data-driven
theoretical foundations and clean-slate experiments to produce deployable
technologies."

The Azimuth ACE Channel Emulator uses advanced digital signal processing
technology to enable real-time laboratory testing of MIMO, MISO and SISO
devices in a multipath environment. It provides dynamic, real-time channel
emulation that scales for testing single channel devices to MIMO 4X4
devices (up to 32 channels), features dedicated bi-directional channel
modeling, extensive model and parametric customization tools, integrated
RF components and superior ease of use.

"We are excited to bring Azimuth's industry-leading channel emulation
capabilities to Rice University and the WARP research group," said George
Reed, vice president of marketing and product management at Azimuth
Systems. "The channel emulator will enable the WARP research group to
extensively test characteristics inherent in the next generation of
wireless broadband products, including beamforming as well as other MIMO
and performance-enhancing applications. This testing capability will
result in high-performance research that will help to advance the wireless
community as a whole."

About Azimuth Systems

Azimuth Systems is a leading provider of wireless broadband test equipment
and channel emulators for Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE and cellular technologies.
Azimuth's products are used by the world's foremost wireless semiconductor
designers, infrastructure and mobile equipment vendors, and service
providers to improve wireless product quality and speed time-to-market.
Azimuth's wireless test and channel emulation products and solutions
enable research, development, quality assurance and systems engineers to
test the performance, conformance, certification and interoperability of
broadband wireless devices and networks while greatly reducing the cost
and time of manual testing.

The company is based near Boston, Massachusetts and may be contacted at
(978) 263-6610 or at www.azimuthsystems.com.

Azimuth(R) is a registered trademark of Azimuth Systems and ACE(TM) is a
trademark of Azimuth Systems.

For additional information contact:

Graham Celine
Azimuth Systems, Inc.
978-268-9220
graham_celine@azimuthsystems.com
Jill Colna
SVM Public Relations
401-490-9700
jill.colna@svmpr.com

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