Dave House, Former Nortel President and Intel Executive, Joins mDiversity's Board of Directors.

Business Editors and Technology Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000

mDiversity, a new company developing software solutions for increasing the spectrum efficiency of wireless networks, today announced that Dave House has joined its Board of Directors.

During his 22 years at Intel, Dave led the development of Intel's leading microprocessor line including the Pentium Processor, and managed the launch of one of the most successful advertising campaigns in the high-technology market -- "Intel Inside." After his tenure at Intel, House was Chairman, CEO and President of Bay Networks through it's merger with Nortel, after which he became President of Nortel Networks, an $18 billion company with operations in 150 countries. House brings his 25 years of industry leadership experience and strategic knowledge to mDiversity which is in its product-development phase and is preparing to launch its products and build momentum in the wireless industry.

"Dave House has spent his entire career developing some of the most impactful products of the computing age, leading the executive teams of industry-recognized companies in the semiconductor, communications and networking markets, and launching some of the most successful and aggressive marketing campaigns in the industry," said Bill Howe, President and CEO of mDiversity.

"With the merger of Nortel and Bay Networks, Dave successfully created a global Internet and communications leader, Nortel Networks, with the products and know-how to deliver on the promise of IP, the Internet and mobile communications," said Bob Yandrofski, Chairman of mDiversity. "mDiversity is fortunate to have Dave as an ally and the opportunity to leverage his incredible knowledge and past successes to help bring mDiversity's vision to market."

"I'm very excited about mDiversity's market and its underlying proprietary technology that will, among other things, more than double the spectrum efficiency of existing wireless networks," said House. "Out of all the many requests that I get from industry leaders to sit on their boards, it was the combination of mDiversity's technology and the vision of the experienced executive team that led me to accept this appointment."

At Intel, House was responsible for leading the development of the Intel 286, 386, 486, and Pentium Processors and established Intel's microprocessors as the worldwide standard for personal computing with his design win at IBM. House also managed the launch of the "Intel Inside" marketing campaign, one of the most successful advertising campaigns in the high-technology market. While at the helm of Bay Networks, House initiated a series of strategic acquisitions making Bay a leader in the emerging technology areas of Layer 3 switches, workgroup Fast Ethernet switches and virtual private networking switches. After leading the merger of Bay Networks and Nortel, House, as President of Nortel, successfully directed the integration of IP technology into Nortel Network's product line and developed Nortel's first large-scale advertising program.

About mDiversity

mDiversity's mission is to more than double the spectrum efficiency of wireless networks. mDiversity's proprietary software with a distributed architecture supports a wide range of industry standards such as GSM, TDMA, EDGE, and 3G wide-band CDMA, providing a flexible, scalable solution for base station manufacturers. Benefits of increasing radio link efficiency with mDiversity's solution include: decreasing mobile transmit power by as much as 94%; reducing dropped calls; increasing capacity and data rate by over 100%; and expanding coverage by up to 300%. Based in San Jose, California, mDiversity is a privately held company with over 30 employees.