| AWR's Microwave Office and VSS Solutions Fulfill Nera's Requirements for
Design Efficiency and Ease-of-Use EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — May 31, 2005 — Applied
Wave Research, Inc. (AWR?), a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design
automation (EDA) tools, today announced an agreement with Nera ASA (Nera), Bergen,
Norway, to supply Microwave Office? and Visual System Simulator? (VSS) software
and support for the design of point-to-point high capacity radio link equipment.
Nera is a leading global supplier of fixed wireless and satellite communication
equipment and systems. "We chose to replace most of our existing design
software with AWR's Microwave Office and VSS design suites because the combination
of professional software and good, customer-oriented support offers a significant
improvement in overall design time," said Karl Martin Gjertsen, vice president
of technology at Nera. "The ease-of-use means that less frequent users do
not have to re-familiarize themselves with the suite each time they use it. In
addition, the tight integration to Mentor Graphics Expedition software means that
we can directly pass designs between the two design tools rather than manually
re-enter data—this means faster design realization and elimination of the chance
of translation errors." "Working with Nera has been a great example
of a company partnering with a supplier to create a customized design environment,"
said Chris Paris, AWR's European operations director. "Their engineers worked
closely with our engineering team to specify exactly what they wanted, especially
in terms of design transfer between different tools. As a result, Nera has improved
its overall design cycle and AWR has improved its understanding of today's customer
needs in this technology area. It has been a real win-win scenario."
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