LitePoint achieved a second successive record quarter in Q2 2007, exceeding Q1 by 47% and Q2 2006 by 131%. Founded in 2000, LitePoint has had an uninterrupted sequence of profitable quarters in the $500 million market for testing Wi-Fi devices. As the wireless test market begins serving a converged wireless market in the next two years, the sales opportunity is expected to quadruple. "We will continue to do what we have always done -- offer system-level test solutions for the latest wireless standards -- and do it first," stated Benny Madsen, LitePoint's chief executive officer.

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LitePoint has added three senior executives to bolster its growth plans as it prepares for a market poised to quadruple in size. Karsten Vandrup (left), most recently Senior Research Manager in Nokia Technology Platforms at Nokia, joins the company as vice-president of engineering. Scott Conrad, formerly Western US Basic Instruments Channel Manager at Agilent, is now senior vice-president of sales. And, Rob Brownstein, founder and former chairman of marketing services firm, Words & Images, has joined as vice-president of market relations and communications.

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LitePoint unveiled its new IQmax MIMO system aimed at WiMAX devices with Wave 2 functionality. The mobility adjuncts to the current WiMAX standard (IEEE standard 802.16e-2005) require capabilities beyond those of earlier versions, and LitePoint's new system provides those capabilities. The current WiMAX mobile radio interface uses SOFDMA and supports MIMO communications technology. The upshot is greater coverage, lower power consumption, and more efficient spectrum and bandwidth utilization.

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LitePoint described and demonstrated its testing capabilities for WiMAX Wave 2, WiMedia, and LTE to a room full of engineers from local Silicon Valley companies. As a surprise, LitePoint's new vice-president of engineering, Karsten Vandrup, talked about LTE, an emerging cellular-infrastructure wireless broadband technology with many similarities to WiMAX Wave 2. Early LTE testing capability was also demonstrated.

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LitePoint took its WiMAX Wave 2 system test solution to Taiwan and played to packed houses. Well over a hundred engineers from major Taiwan ODMs and OEMs came to each venue to see LitePoint's IQmax MIMO make short work of comprehensive WiMAX MIMO testing, and to hear about the soon-to-be-released WiMedia test solution. They had a chance to participate in a panel discussion featuring Alan Yang, Beceem's country manager and Titan Liu, Sequans' Taiwan distributor. The event was co-hosted by LitePoint distribution partner, ACE Solution.

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The Seoul seminar, focused on WiFi, MIMO, and WiMAX Wave 2, attracted more than 100 wireless experts from dozens of leading Korean companies. The panel participants included Robert Fogliani, Vice President, Sales Asia for Sequans Communications and Jeong-Min Kim, PhD and Vice President, Engineering for GCT Semiconductor. The event was co-hosted by LitePoint distribution partner, Crezon Corp.

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"Our main goal is to provide a reliable, effective, hands-free WiFi communications device that can be used by a mobile workforce. Our customers won't settle for clipped conversations or choppy audio. LitePoint testing equipment helps us develop and manufacture high-quality products cost effectively. Having reliable equipment ensures we can deliver a good experience for our customers." -- Mike Sweeney, Manufacturing Test Manager, Vocera Communications

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It took a year from concept to hard-cover book, but The New Industrial Revolution, written by LitePoint's Dr. Benny Madsen and Rob Brownstein, is off to a good start. Just listed on Amazon, and with thousands of first-edition copies on their way to California, an order for 1,000 books has already been received. The book dissects the mechanisms by which today's consumer electronics companies are able to develop and market new products within months instead of years. What the authors found was more than a shift of manufacturing to countries with lower labor rates, but a paradigm shift in the very structure of companies and their value chains.

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