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Wireless Valley Contacts: Wireless Valley Releases SitePlanner® 2000 In-building Design Environment Blacksburg, VA, June 30, 2000 -- Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., pioneering developer of innovative engineering tools for wireless systems planning and design, today announced the release of their SitePlanner® 2000 software suite. With revolutionary visualization capability to predict, measure and manage wireless system performance, SitePlanner® 2000 now includes a real time measurement interface for the Anritsu SiteMaster MS2711 handheld spectrum analyzer. SitePlanner® 2000 also imports measurement log file formats from Agilent Technologies™ E74XX series of radio receiver software as well as emerging IMT 2000 and other third-generation wireless measurement equipment. SitePlanner® 2000 now enables seamless outdoor drive testing and indoor walk test measurement collection. SitePlanner® 2000 is rapidly establishing itself as the new standard for indoor wireless systems design and management tools. SitePlanner® 2000 features an enhanced performance prediction engine and a simplified, significantly automated interface for creating site-specific 2D/3D models of any multistory building or campus environment. SitePlanner® 2000 provides a complete asset management system for all in-building installations. The software also facilitates instant visualization, prediction, and measurement of the critical characteristics of wireless design, such as received signal strength (RSSI), signal to interference ratios (SIR), best server, bit error rate (BER), frame error rate (FER), RF exposure, throughput, and handoff regions for indoor, microcell, and macrocell wireless environments. SitePlanner® has proven to be a valuable timesaving tool and is in use by wireless service providers, manufacturers, system integrators and consultants worldwide. With its new, highly intuitive look and feel, SitePlanner® 2000 will greatly enhance the productivity and efficiency of RF engineers who design and deploy indoor and microcellular communication systems. Wireless Valley also announced recent major sales to Ericsson, AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Terms were not disclosed. Ericsson has been using SitePlanner® to design their Mobile Advantage™ Wireless Office systems, while the Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be using SitePlanner® to design and deploy wireless voice and data communication systems on the mercantile exchange trading floor. # # # |