Wavesat’s Odyssey 8500 chipset -- designed into Willcom’s GX001N PC Card -- is first to market in providing XGP services for mass deployment

San Mateo, CA – October 26, 2009 – Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of 4G broadband wireless semiconductor solutions, today announced that its “Odyssey” chipset is the first – and currently the only -- to be widely deployed in Willcom’s new “XGP” broadband wireless network, which entered commercial service this month in Japan. The Odyssey chipset is featured in Willcom’s GX001N XGP PC Cards manufactured by a leading manufacturer of wireless terminals and consumer devices in Japan.

Willcom’s data-only (Internet, video and more) XGP service, based on a 4G “OFDMA” standard, is available to the general public and enterprise users. Wavesat has worked closely with Willcom and solution partners in Japan since early 2008 to meet this network’s advanced requirements for the Japanese marketplace, including a very high 256 QAM modulation scheme which enables 20 Mb/s downlink and uplink connections – even on high speed trains.

Wavesat was able to meet these stringent requirements based on the unique, highly programmable, multi-mode architecture incorporated in its Odyssey chipset, offering software reconfiguration to support multiple broadband wireless technologies including XGP, WiMAX Wave2, and the company’s recently introduced LTE chipsets.

The Odyssey’s 4G multi-core architecture incorporates 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 PC Data Cards, mobile handsets and other consumer electronic devices.

“XGP represents one of the most leading edge OFDM networks in deployment today. Launching this innovative service in Japan has been a very exciting time for Willcom,” said Mr. Yoshioki Chika, Executive Vice President of Willcom. “Working with our valuable partners, such as Wavesat, over the past several months has enabled us to achieve this success and we look forward to more advanced projects in the future.”

“We were the first to offer a truly multi-mode 4G broadband chipset and we are proud to be the first to follow up with true mass deployment of the solution in Willcom’s XGP network,” said Raj Singh, President and CEO of Wavesat. “This deployment represents a significant milestone for the company and is a measure of the power and flexibility of a true multi-protocol architecture.”

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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 LTE, WiMAX Wave2 and XGP. Wavesat was recognized as one of Canada’s Top Ten Technology companies for 2009. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.

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Company’s LTE Chipset Family – the “Odyssey 9000” -- Solidifies Leadership in Multi-Protocol 4G Baseband Processors

San Mateo, CA – September 9, 2009 – Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of Broadband Wireless semiconductor solutions, will launch its Odyssey 9000 family of LTE chipsets at the 4G World in Chicago next week, with the first LTE chipset featuring CAT-3 performance (100 Mb/s downlink, 50 Mb/s uplink) for mobile devices including USB dongles, data cards, mobile handsets and MIDs. The Odyssey 9000 is a highly integrated SOC with industry beating performance and power consumption, along with a highly flexible and programmable architecture to easily adapt to LTE’s evolving requirements. Wavesat’s award winning multi-protocol architecture also allows the Odyssey 9000 to support other 4G technologies including WiMAX and Japan’s XGP standard.

“As the industry moves rapidly to strategic use of IP applications, such as will be enabled by LTE, Wavesat’s product family and approach appears well positioned to offer an agile response to changing product and market demands,” said Robert Syputa, Partner and Principal Analyst with Maravedis. “What sets the Odyssey 9000 apart from the competitors -- more than a time-to-market advantage -- is that Odyssey 9000 follows a highly flexible and ‘future proof’ system architecture that can help lower life-cycle product costs and provide a migration to multiple radio access network operating or roaming models.”

The Odyssey 9000 family of chipsets incorporates a unique hybrid architecture with a combination of highly efficient DSPs and hardware acceleration blocks, easily scaling to support CAT-4 (150 Mb/s downlink) devices. The first LTE baseband processor in the Odyssey 9000 family, the OD9010, will sample in October 2009, and will come complete with an LTE protocol stack including MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC and NAS layers, as well as a ready to manufacture reference design. A follow-on dual-mode chip, the OD9050, is scheduled to sample by mid-2010 and will offer both 3G and LTE on the same chipset.

“We are very excited about the feedback from leading network operators and OEMs to our Odyssey 9000 family of products, as it will enable device manufacturers to offer production quality LTE mobile devices with CAT-3 capability by the end of this year,” said Raj Singh, President and CEO of Wavesat. “We are working now with a few lead operators and OEMs to have fully interoperable LTE devices in place to meet the demand as LTE networks go operational worldwide beginning next year.”

Wavesat is exhibiting at the 4G World show in Chicago (booth 717) and senior executives are participating this week at LTE events in Hong Kong (“LTE Asia”) and Amsterdam (“LTE Focus”).

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Adding Value For Network Operators And Integrators

San Diego, CA and Montreal, Canada – May 27, 2009 – Wavesat, Inc., a leading provider of 4G silicon solutions, today announced an expanded partnership with Proximetry, Inc. that will help wireless broadband operators and infrastructure providers enhance their service offerings and provide greater value to their customers. The companies’ enhanced efforts will focus on two main areas: first, a set of solutions for integrators of Wavesat’s WiMAX 802.16 technologies that address the emerging smart energy, public safety, and efficient transportation sectors; and second, the introduction of highly-granular, dynamic network management tools allowing the Wavesat Odyssey 4G multiprotocol chipset to excel in dense deployment topologies such as those found in picocell and femtocell deployments.

Proximetry’s AirSync software platform is the basis for the value-added service offerings. AirSync provides ODM’s and systems integrators with a flexible set of tools to build higher-performance, mixed protocol (WiMAX, LTE, XGP, WiFi), wireless network solutions. The collaboration also will result in a new set of software reference platforms and services to support Wavesat partners in accelerating their time-to-market for the resulting service offerings.

For WiMAX 802.16d solution providers, the partnership with Proximetry will provide immediate benefits by enhancing software support for the Wavesat DM256 and NP7256-based product lines. Under the Agreement, Proximetry will provide integrated software solutions, including AirSync-enabled basestation MAC, subscriber station, and performance monitoring agents, to Wavesat licensees. In addition, Proximetry and Wavesat have developed new pricing models to align better with solution provider success and time-to-market objectives. Specific emphasis is being place on accelerating solutions in the energy and defense/public safety segments.

In support of the more recent Wavesat Odyssey chipsets, the companies are collaborating to introduce software reference platforms for advanced picocell and femtocell solutions. These new software solutions are well suited for hardware partners looking to take advantage of mixed-protocol wireless networks (including WiFi) and/or deployment topologies which leverage “underlay” networks of picocells or wireless repeaters.

“The key to our wireless broadband market success has been our end-to-end support of the ODMs, the integrators, and the network operators who put our technology into the hands of their customers,” said Raj Singh, Wavesat President and CEO, “Proximetry brings important tools and support capabilities that enhances the value of our 4G wireless chipsets at each of these stages.” “We are very enthusiastic about extending our cooperation with Wavesat,” said Tracy Trent, Proximetry CEO, “these new solutions address user and application performance needs on advanced wireless networks and is a tremendous opportunity for both companies. The coupling of AirSync’s dynamic performance management features with Odyssey’s programmable 4G multimode architecture will enable very innovative product opportunities at breakthrough price points.”

Initial Odyssey-based solution demonstrations and technology presentations are planned during the week of June 1st, during the upcoming Computex tradeshow in Taipei Taiwan. More information pertaining to these sessions can be obtained from the company websites.

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 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. Wavesat is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®. For more information, please visit www.wavesat.com.

About Proximetry
Proximetry provides real-time network and performance management solutions that give wireless operators the ability to easily and seamlessly visualize, provision, and optimally manage their multifrequency, multiprotocol, multivendor networks. The result is lower network operating costs, more revenues through new service offerings, and higher subscriber satisfaction. AirSyncTM, the company’s carrier-class software, gives municipal, public safety, energy, transportation, and enterprise network operators as well as carriers the ability to dynamically monitor and manage their wireless networks from a single system to ensure reliable and predictable network performance, especially for mission critical communications. Founded in January 2005, Proximetry is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information, please visit www.Proximetry.com Proximetry is a trademark of Proximetry, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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