Spirent Communications' CDMA2000 Mobile Test System Selected to Accelerate Roll-out of Next- Generation CDMA Services in China.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 Spirent's C2K-ATS enables complete evaluation of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. 2000 Mobile Performance Spirent Communications(TM), a wholly-owned business group of Spirent plc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SPM SPM - Sequential Parlog Machine ) today announced that the company's market-leading CDMA2000 1X mobile device test solutions have been selected by the RITT (Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission) and QUALCOMM Incorporated. (Nasdaq:QCOM QCOM Qualcomm, Inc. (stock symbol) ) to be deployed into the world-class MTNet-Beijing test center. Spirent's integrated test solution will be used to verify that mobiles comply with cdmaOne(TM) (2G) and CDMA2000 1X (3G) mobile test standards. Spirent's C2K-ATS solution will help accelerate the rapid and reliable deployment of next-generation CDMA services in China. MTNet must certify a CDMA mobile's performance before it can be deployed on China Unicom's network or any other CDMA wireless network in China. As part of QUALCOMM's commitment to the success of CDMA in China, it has collaborated with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII 1. (body) MII - A consortium of Microsoft, IBM, and Intel. 2. (storage) MII - A broadcast component video tape format licensed by Panasonic. ) to establish this CDMA terminal conformance test capability within the MII's RITT MTNet Lab. QUALCOMM also will use the Spirent test solution at its own Technical Center in Beijing. "QUALCOMM is committed to ensuring a successful deployment of CDMA services in China. We believe Spirent's comprehensive CDMA test solutions will help enable our licensees to reduce their time to market and ensure their product's performance is optimized," commented Thomas Erickson, director of licensee support at QUALCOMM. The Spirent C2K-ATS CDMA2000 Automatic Test System automatically characterizes the performance of IS-95/CDMA2000 mobile devices and has been adopted by the world's leading CDMA service providers and mobile manufacturers. Spirent's C2K-ATS is the only commercially available system that enables automated IS-95/CDMA2000 physical layer, protocol layer, and location- based service performance evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return in a single test setup. "This selection deepens the long-standing relationship between QUALCOMM and Spirent in CDMA wireless test," said My Chung, president of Spirent Communications. "This is an opportunity for Spirent's test solutions to play a key role in accelerating the development and deployment of CDMA2000 1X services in China. Spirent is committed to providing MTNet Lab with comprehensive support to ensure a successful deployment." Spirent Communications' is a global leader in solutions for air interface performance analysis of wireless mobile and infrastructure equipment. Its integrated instruments and systems simplify physical layer, protocol layer, and position location evaluation, addressing the requirements of 2G, 2.5G and 3G technologies. About Spirent Communications(TM) Spirent Communications is a worldwide provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems for next-generation network technologies. Spirent's solutions accelerate the profitable development and deployment of network equipment and services by emulating real-world conditions in the lab and assuring end-to-end performance of large-scale networks. www.spirentcom.com Spirent Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Spirent plc, an international network technology company. Spirent plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (ticker:SPT (Sectors Per Track) The number of sectors in one track. ). The company is also listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (ticker:SPM; CUSIP number CUSIP Number An identification number assigned to all stocks and registered bonds. The Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (CUSIP) oversees the entire CUSIP system. Notes: This system is used in the U.S. and Canada. : 84856M209). www.spirent.com About QUALCOMM QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's business areas include CDMA chipsets and system software; technology licensing; the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless BREW is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones. It was originally developed for CDMA handsets, but has since been ported to other air interfaces including GSM/GPRS, UMTS, and CDMA. (TM) (BREW(TM)) applications platform; QChat(TM) push-to-talk technology; Eudora(R) e-mail software; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar(TM) system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS(R) and OmniExpress(R). QUALCOMM owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. QUALCOMM has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 100 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. 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