ComStruct Professional Services Makes Blue Wave Systems the Complete Partner for Embedded Communications Processing.

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CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000

Blue Wave Systems (Nasdaq:BWSI) today introduced ComStruct(TM) Professional Services, a complete range of engineering resources to support every facet of the development cycle, from concept through to deployment.

Focused on providing technical expertise to support Blue Wave's ComStruct(TM) family of building blocks for communications processing, Professional Services will allow customers to significantly reduce risk, time-to-market and total cost of ownership.

Aimed at the key aspects of implementing new designs, ComStruct Professional Services is made up of five elements: integration, development, consulting, maintenance/support, and training. Each element is designed to help the customer make the best use of Blue Wave's expertise, be it through technical training courses, assistance with architecture definition, the production of custom software, or the provision of post implementation support. The underlying objective of the Professional Services initiative is to help customers identify, develop and implement a ComStruct solution to best suit their needs.

Commenting on the formal introduction of Professional Services, Blue Wave Systems' director of support services, Mark Dunton, said, "Our expertise in communications processing has been very much in demand and has been instrumental in a number of ComStruct successes to date. The establishment of the Professional Services group now formalizes this offering. Through this program, ComStruct customers can now take advantage of our in-house team of specialists to help deliver high-performance embedded solutions within budget and on time."

Blue Wave has already demonstrated to a number of organizations its ability to provide custom engineering support for ComStruct solutions. One such organization is Tekelec Inc. (Nasdaq/NMS:TKLC), who use the ComStruct family for core processing within their next-generation wireless test platform, the MGTS i3000(TM). Adam Fowler, engineering director for Tekelec, said, "We have utilized Blue Wave's engineering services for algorithm development, integration and system support, and as a result have been able to significantly reduce our time-to-market."

For Racal Recorders (LSE:RCAL), ComStruct has been used to provide the high-density DSP resources for their new Tienna(TM) advanced digital recording platform. Product manager at Racal Recorders, Richard Dawson, added, "Our application required a specialist set of algorithms which Blue Wave developed and integrated into their FACT framework, allowing us to concentrate our resources on what we do best."

ComStruct's hardware and software building blocks help abstract the developer from the technology, enabling them to concentrate on their core competence and allowing them to add more value and functionality to their designs. Blue Wave Systems' long experience in both DSP technology and in the telecom industry, enables the Professional Services group to guide ComStruct customers through the development cycle.

While ComStruct's range of DSP hardware platforms provides developers the flexible architecture they need, it is the management and control software, FACT(TM), that helps developers get the most from the DSP technology. The FACT software framework can remove some or all of the DSP issues, allowing the developer to channel all resources into the application itself.

For more information on Blue Wave Systems Professional Services and the ComStruct line of building blocks, visit http://www.bluews.com.

Blue Wave Systems is a leading supplier of high-channel Digital Signal Processing (DSP) subsystems used in telecommunication infrastructure equipment, such as voice over packet (VoIP) gateways, digital wireless communications and intelligent peripherals. The ComStruct(TM) line of telecom infrastructure communication processing subsystems was launched in January 1999. At the heart of the ComStruct(TM) line is the company's FACT(TM) software (Framework Architecture for Communication Technologies), which enables the DSP subsystem to be rapidly and effectively deployed in a variety of carrier class telecom applications. Blue Wave Systems has been a market leader in DSP board-level products since 1983. For additional information, please visit our company's web site at www.bluews.com.

ComStruct and FACT are trademarks of Blue Wave Systems Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.