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Wavesat Wireless Broadband Solutions Central to Successful Launch of Remote Research Collaboration Facility for Canadian and Chinese Companies |
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Montréal, Canada, November 12, 2008 – Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of Broadband Wireless semiconductor solutions announced today that it has participated in a multi-partner initiative that launched a new Remote Research Collaboration Facility (RRCF) on November 7, 2008. The initiative was spearheaded by Prompt Inc. and the Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO) The RRCF is a transcontinental virtual laboratory that will provide researchers in Montréal, Canada and Shanghai, China with remote access to microelectronics and telecommunications equipment. Wavesat provided funding, research and development expertise as well as products for the set up of the RRCF. ZTE, the world’s leading telecommunications device supplier, also actively participated in the demonstration.
With leading researchers, government, academic and industry leaders watching on, the successful live demonstration took place at WiCO’s world-class research and development facility located in Shanghai. It was the first intercontinental experiment between researchers at the Montréal-based École de technologie supérieure (ETS) and WiCO. The successful live demonstration proved that microelectronics equipment located in Shanghai could be managed by students located more than 11 thousand kilometers away. The demo showcased both the research capability available through the RRCF and how it will benefit innovators in both countries. Wavesat’s Odyssey™ 8500 WiMAX USB device was central to both the demonstration and future collaboration at the RRCF.
Throughout the project, the Wavesat Odyssey-based broadband wireless devices will be used as the platform for research with the goal of improving realistic deployment models as well as antenna technology algorithms. Further to the initial collaboration, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between ZTE and Wavesat in September 2007 engaging both companies to continue to support the project towards establishing a real-life WiMAX field environment. The Wavesat Odyssey 8500 chip is ideal for such a project given its unique multimode and programmable architecture.
In addition to facilitating new research and development collaboration, the RRCF creates a cost-effective and efficient means for Canadian and Chinese companies to demonstrate new wireless technologies to prospective customers across the globe. Wavesat intends to showcase its latest broadband wireless technologies supporting multiple protocols at the RRCF facilities.
“The RRCF creates an international customer interaction centre for Wavesat, enabling us to demonstrate and promote our innovative broadband solutions to prospective customers in China’s telecommunications industry,” said Mr. Raj Singh, President and CEO at Wavesat. “We look forward to the positive impact on our product development and the opportunity for greater reach into lucrative Asian markets.”
“We have helped to create a virtual research environment that promises to stimulate practical–and profitable–research results for both university researchers and companies such as Wavesat and ZTE,” said Dr. Charles Despins, President and CEO of Prompt. “It demonstrates how the Prompt partnership model can directly impact the growth of Québec-based companies, by stimulating new commercial opportunities and facilitating access to new global markets.”
Leading researchers, government, academic and industry officials from Québec and China, gathered at WiCO’s world-class research and development facility in Shanghai on Nov 7, 2008 to participate in the first intercontinental experiment between researchers at École de technologie supérieure (ETS) and WiCO.
About Wavesat
Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2 and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. Wavesat was awarded the 2008 Frost and Sullivan Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Excellence in Technology Award and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top Ten Technology companies for 2009. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.
About Prompt Inc.
Prompt is a non-profit corporation that stimulates industry-university R&D partnerships to increase the competitiveness of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector in Québec. With financial support from the Government of Québec and the private sector, Prompt aims to enable new R&D initiatives that add value to Québec-based companies, increase the benefits of public investments in research, and bolster the provincial innovation system. The partnerships facilitated by Prompt are financed by the private sector, the Government of Québec and the Government of Canada. As these initiatives often receive additional funds from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and other granting agencies, and scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax credits from provincial and federal governments, the value of every dollar invested by a company can generate a return of more than seven. For further information, please visit www.promptinc.org.
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Wavesat Receives Prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2008 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Excellence in Technology Award |
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Wavesat’s Odyssey™ 4G Multimode Chipset Cited as Best in Broadband Wireless Access
WiMAX World USA, Chicago, Illinois - October 1, 2008 – Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of Broadband Wireless semiconductor solutions announced today new industry honors as the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Mobile Broadband Wireless Access “Excellence in Technology” Award. Frost & Sullivan selected Wavesat for the Company’s Odyssey™ 4G architecture and chipset for broadband applications such as mobile WiMAX, LTE and XG-PHS. According to Frost & Sullivan, Wavesat’s offering demonstrates innovation as an emerging product and technology with wide-ranging market impact among service providers and product developers.
“Wavesat’s 4G multimode architecture is the first of its kind in the industry and offers significant advantages for OEMS and ODMs with regards to their Bill of Materials in particular,” said Luke Thomas, Program Manager for ICT-Europe. “This scalable architecture also provides flexibility of deployment for service providers and accommodates customers roaming within countries with different 3.9G technology standards.”
Wavesat’s Odyssey family is powered by a unique 4G multi-core architecture incorporating multiple ultra-low power DSPs, offering flexibility, high performance and low power consumption, without any tradeoffs. The System-On a-Chip (SOC) manufactured using advanced Embedded DRAM technology requires no external memory, thus saving customers valuable real estate, cost and power consumption for very small form-factor portable and mobile applications such as wireless USB dongles, mobile handsets and other consumer electronic devices.
"Recognition by Frost & Sullivan for our Odyssey product line further validates the strong market demand we increasingly seeing from service providers and OEMs,” said Raj Singh, President and CEO of Wavesat. “The uniquely integrated functionality of our chipset not only provides a distinct operational advantage for customers, but substantial reductions in first installed and total lifecycle costs. We are seeing broad applications within the end user, network equipment and operator sectors.”
Frost & Sullivan’s Excellence in Technology of the Year Award is bestowed upon a company that has pioneered the development and introduction of an innovative technology into the market; a technology that has either impacted or has the potential to impact several market sectors. This award recognizes a company’s successful technology development that is expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. It also recognizes the Company’s overall technical excellence and its commitment toward technology innovation.
Wavesat will accept the 2008 Technology Excellence Award on October 16, 2008 at the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Technology Excellence Awards Banquet in London, UK.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit www.awards.frost.com.
About Wavesat
Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2, WiFi, and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.
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Wavesat, Odyssey and Odyssey Broadband Everywhere are trademarks of Wavesat Inc. */ ® registered by Wavesat Inc. in the U.S. WiMAX, WiMAX Forum and WiMAX Forum Certified are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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Wavesat and WirelessLogix Certify WiMAX Chipset Compatibility |
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WiMAX World USA - Chicago, Illinois, October 1, 2008 – Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of Broadband Wireless semiconductor solutions and WirelessLogix, a leading supplier of test and measurement solutions, announced today that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between Wavesat’s Odyssey™ 8500 chipset and WirelessLogix’ WiMAX data collection solutions. This new diagnostic support for Wavesat’s Odyssey chipset will provide WiMAX engineers with the ability to perform testing using Wavesat-based devices and the WirelessLogix' XCAL-X real-time data collection tool and XCAP-X analysis tool. XCAL-X will enable technicians and network engineers to collect performance metrics from Wavesat’s Odyssey WiMAX devices in order to optimize network deployment and system performance. Troubleshooting and detailed analysis can then be performed using WirelessLogix’ XCAP-X software platform. “We are receiving tremendous interest from OEMS and service providers for our multimode Odyssey chipset,” said Vijay Dube, EVP of Marketing and COO, Wavesat. “We’re pleased to be working with WirelessLogix to provide our customers with highly developed diagnostic and test solutions, which in turn, will help reduce the time-to-market for their products.” "Wavesat is an important addition to our expanding WiMAX partner list," said Mark Tierney, VP of Business Development, WirelessLogix. "As the WiMAX ecosystem evolves with new devices and chipsets, WirelessLogix will continue to ensure that our solutions pass the necessary testing and are ready to support these new devices.” Both Wavesat and WirelessLogix will be exhibiting at WiMAX World USA 2008 in Chicago from September 30 to October 2nd. Wavesat will be exhibiting its complete line of broadband wireless products at Booth #1116. WirelessLogix will be demonstrating its latest product solutions including XCAL/XCAP at Booth #1213.
About Wavesat
Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2, WiFi, and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.
About WirelessLogix
WirelessLogix is recognized as a leader in the highly progressive wireless test and measurement industry. WirelessLogix is a subsidiary of InnoWireless, Inc., a Korean publicly traded company listed under KOSDAQ. Together with InnoWireless, WirelessLogix supplies test and measurement solutions to some of the world’s largest wireless chipset/device manufacturers, infrastructure vendors, and carriers. WirelessLogix, Inc. develops and manufactures field testing tools for Mobile WiMAX, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and CDMA, 1xRTT, EVDO and WiFi technologies. For more information about WirelessLogix, please visit www.wirelesslogix.com.
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Wavesat has been selected as one of Canada's Top 10™ Competition Winners |
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(Ottawa, Ontario, September 30, 2008) – The 2009 winners of the annual Canada’s Top 10™ Competition have been selected (www.topcanadiancompanies.ca). Winners will gather on October 7th at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa to hone their presentation skills, meet local and regional investors, and prepare themselves for the first leg of the 2009 Investment Forum series. Wavesat will participate as a presenting company at the 12th Annual Ottawa Venture and Technology Summit on October 8th (www.ottawavts.com). Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2, WiFi, and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. “Wavesat has a long history of innovation and is honoured to have been selected among Canada’s Top Ten™ Technology Companies this year,” said Raj Singh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wavesat. “The recognition of our company in this elite group is a reflection of the accelerated momentum and rapid growth that the company has experienced in the last 12 months.” Winners are chosen by an independent expert panel of Canadian and U.S. venture capitalists. Originally developed to promote the 10 most promising life science companies from across Canada to Canadian and international investors and partners, the competition now showcases Canada's life sciences, cleantech and technology sectors. Working in partnership with Canadian Consulates in Boston, New York City, San Diego and San Francisco, winning companies will participate in targeted investment forums in each city, providing them with an opportunity to meet with Venture Capital investors who have expressed an active interest in financing these companies. Since its inception in 1999, competition alumni have secured more than $522M in venture capital financing. Canada’s Top 10™ is organized by OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation) and presented by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, the winners include a wide variety of companies from the life science, cleantech and technology sectors. “OCRI is pleased to play an active role in the growth of so many exceptional Canadian companies,” said Michelle Scarborough, Vice President, Investment and Commercialization, OCRI. “This is a successful program as evidenced by the investment in past winners. Through our ongoing outreach to the rest of Canada, the best companies from three key innovation sectors can continue to benefit from exposure to VC’s, other investors and potential strategic partners.” Of the 30 winning companies, 3 are from the Montreal area, with an additional 2 companies from Quebec. For more information about the Canada’s Top 10™ Competition visit www.topcanadiancompanies.ca.
2009 Canada’s Top 10TM Companies:
Life Science
Axela Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
DiaMedica Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
iCo Therapeutics Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc. (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Indel Therapeutics Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Kane Biotech Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
PlantForm Corporation (Guelph, Ontario)
Profound Medical Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
Sanomune Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Viron Therapeutics Inc. (London, Ontario)
Cleantech
Elementa (St. Catharines, Ontario)
EnvirEau Technologies Inc. (Richmond, British Columbia)
Odotech Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)
Paradigm Environmental Technologies, Inc (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Quadra Solar Corporation (Ottawa, Ontario)
REGEN Energy (Toronto, Ontario)
Sempa Power Systems Ltd. (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
SiXtron Advanced Materials Inc (Dorval, Quebec)
Taransys Inc (Ottawa, Ontario)
Thinkflex Solar, Inc. (Hamilton, Ontario)
Technology
Accedian Networks, Inc. (St. Laurent, Quebec)
BelAir Networks (Ottawa, Ontario)
DataGardens Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta)
Ecobee (Toronto, Ontario)
Evoco Inc. (Calgary, Alberta)
I Love Rewards Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
IPeak Networks Incorporated (Ottawa, Ontario)
Redknee (Mississauga, Ontario)
Trellia Networks Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)
Wavesat Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)
About Wavesat:
Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2, WiFi, and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.
About OCRI:
OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation), the city's economic development corporation, is leading the way for Ottawa. OCRI is the rallying point to bring business, education and research together to create the winning economic conditions that allow Ottawa's technology companies to thrive locally and compete globally. At OCRI we promote sustainable economic development to maintain our high quality of life. For more information on OCRI visit our website at www.ocri.ca and for more information on the Ottawa Region please visit www.ottawaregion.com.
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Wavesat Announces Distribution Agreement with DigiPro to Deliver 4G Solutions in China and Taiwan |
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Leader in Broadband Wireless Solutions Expands Presence to Meet Market Demand for Odyssey 8500™ Multimode Chipset
Telecom Asia, Bangkok, September 3, 2008 – Wavesat, a leading supplier of Broadband Wireless semiconductor solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with DigiPro Technology Ltd. to meet the growing demand for Wavesat’s Odyssey 8500™ chipset and reference designs in the China and Taiwan. DigiPro will expand the Company’s presence in the region while complementing existing channel relationships.
Wavesat has seen impressive gains in the Asia region over the past year, including recent agreements with the Japanese operator Willcom and Taiwanese ODM Compal. DigiPro will help Wavesat build on this momentum.
“DigiPro has excellent penetration with “Tier One” manufacturers in wireless networking markets including WiMAX and WiFi as well as major PC and portable consumer electronics suppliers. They also have both the business reach and the technical bench strength to help increase our market presence in this major wireless ecosystem region,” said Raj Singh, President and CEO, Wavesat. “This partnership will strengthen our presence and augment our channel opportunities, with increased local support for existing and future customers.” “We believe Wavesat’s multimode Odyssey 8500 chip is a superior broadband technology and will allow regional OEMs, ODMs, carriers and end customers to realize the promise of 4G communications,” said Jason Wu, President, DigiPro. “Our strong engineering focus and local support combined with Wavesat’s Odyssey portfolio offers the right solution of performance, power and cost to consumer device manufactures throughout the region.” About Odyssey 8500™ Chipset The Odyssey 8500 chipset from Wavesat is powered by a unique 4G multi-core architecture incorporating multiple ultra low power DSPs, offering flexibility, high performance and low power consumption, without any tradeoff. The SOC manufactured using advanced Embedded DRAM technology requires no external memory, thus saving customers valuable real estate, cost and power consumption for very small form-factor portable and mobile applications such as wireless USB dongle, mobile handsets and other consumer electronic devices.
About DigiPro DigiPro is a professional semiconductor and electronic component distribution company in the Asia Pacific region, specialized in design-in oriented products. Our sales network covers Taiwan, Hong Kong and China in various application areas including PC, Wireless, Consumer, Communications and Multimedia. For more information, please visit www.digipro-tech.com About Wavesat Wavesat is a global leader in mobile broadband, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to the world’s leading carrier and mobile device manufacturers to deploy future-proof broadband services and products. With award winning technology, Wavesat delivers silicon that enables customers to deploy multiple Broadband Wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2, WiFi, and XG-PHS today and to migrate seamlessly to future 4G technologies such as LTE. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com. © Copyright 2008 Wavesat All rights reserved. Information subject to change without notice.
Wavesat, Odyssey and Odyssey 8500 are registered trademarks of Wavesat Incorporated. WiMAX, WiMAX Forum and WiMAX Forum Certified are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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