Agilent Technologies Demonstrates Leadership at 3GSM in Wireless Design, Test, Service Management.

BARCELONA, Spain -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced several new products and initiatives that underline its commitment to its customers in the wireless communications market. These products and solutions will help customers achieve challenging time-to-market and quality-of service goals in today's environment of fast technology change and increasing end-user expectations.

Agilent is making the following announcements today:

--New initiatives for WiMAX design and deployment. Agilent will consolidate its position as the leading supplier of WiMAX test solutions by showing an extensive product portfolio to support WiMAX customers.

--New IP UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) Signaling Analyzer. By utilizing its proven technology leadership in UMTS and IP analysis, Agilent is providing customers with a first-in-class solution for analysis, troubleshooting and optimization of IP UTRAN networks

--New base station test systems compliant with the latest CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface) standards. Agilent is announcing the first commercially available test solution for the CPRI standard. CPRI defines a publicly available specification for the interface between the radio equipment control and the radio equipment in a base station.

--New Bluetooth EDR capabilities. Agilent's N4010A Wireless Connectivity Test Set supports the Bluetooth(R) Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) test mode and now offers new audio generation and analysis capabilities for Bluetooth audio test.

--Collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor to create ZigBee test solutions. Agilent and Freescale Semiconductor have worked together to create a test solution that can be used to efficiently test chipset platforms to the standards set by the ZigBee Alliance.

--New capabilities for testing W-CDMA/HSDPA and GSM/GPRS. Agilent will announce new lab application features for the 8960 Wireless Test Set that provide real-life network emulation for GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA/HSDPA.

--First pre-conformance test system for HSDPA test cases. This GCF-certified pre-conformance test system allows cellular phone design engineers to perform early design verification for HSDPA RF test cases as well as for WCDMA, GSM/GPRS, EGPRS, CDMA and 1xEV-DO.

--New Wireless Quality of Service Management solution. Agilent's QoS management solution for GSM, UMTS and CDMA measures the end-to-end telecom service experience to ensure a high-quality customer experience, while reducing capital and operational expenditures.

Agilent is committed to creating leading edge design, test and service management solutions for its customers. Agilent focuses on delivering solutions needed by its customers at the right time and with the right performance. Companies that design, build and deploy the latest-generation products and services for WiMAX, UMTS (HSDPA, W-CDMA, EGPRS, GPRS and GSM), Bluetooth, ZigBee, CPRI, UWB and others are using Agilent's products now to accelerate their time-to-market and improve their revenue flows.

"Test is a critical enabler in R&D, manufacturing, installation and service management," said Benoit Neel, Agilent vice president and general manager of the company's European field operations. "We are delivering leading-edge solutions now that allow our customers to address the challenging technologies that continue to emerge in wireless communications."

For additional and detailed information about the test solutions on display, see Agilent's 3GSM 2006 virtual press kit at www.agilent.com/comms/3gsmpresskit.

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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 21,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2005. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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