BERTScope from SyntheSys Research Captures Product Differentiation Award from Frost and Sullivan.

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- The BERTScope S analyzer has been honored by Frost and Sullivan to receive the 2005 Product Differentiation Award in the BERT test equipment product category. SyntheSys Research, committed to first to market innovations, has made significant in-roads into the communications test equipment market place. Introduced in 2004, the BERTScope is a new instrument class, offering the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT.

The BERTScope S addresses test needs for higher speed (excess of 1Gbps) electrical components, serial links, and interfaces for computer memory, busses and back planes, including the FB DIMM, Serial ATA, and PCI Express II standards. BERTScope S also addresses test needs for electrical and optical storage, enterprise and telecommunications components, transceivers and network equipment, including OIF CEI and the new 4X / 8X Fiber Channel and 10G Ethernet standards.

"We are working closely with our customers to bring critical test functionality to market, even before these new standards are fully ratified. BERTScope S gives our customers the competitive edge they need to test their devices and network equipment with confidence in minutes rather than hours or days using older approaches to test," said Lutz Henckels, CEO of SyntheSys Research. "The Frost and Sullivan award recognizes our commitment to be first in meeting our customers' test needs."

Each year, this Frost & Sullivan Award is presented to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to develop and/or advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. The Award recognizes the company's successful adoption of a new or existing technology that has become a part of its well-designed product family. Such innovation is expected to significantly contribute to the industry in terms of product performance and degree/rate of technical change.

About BERTScope(TM)

BERTScope(TM) is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. SyntheSys' patented BitAlyzer(R) error location analysis(TM) provides detailed information including pattern-dependent error histograms, enabling engineers to discover the source of errors. For further information, call [phone] or visit our website at www.BERTScope.com.

About Frost & Sullivan

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