[November 29, 2005]

Vanu Awarded SDR Forum Industry Achievement Award; Prestigious Award Recognizes Significant Contributions to the Software Radio Industry

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 29, 2005 -- Vanu, Inc. today announces that it has been awarded the SDR Forum's Industry Achievement Award for 2005. The award, presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research and development in the field of Software Defined Radio (SDR), was announced at the SDR Forum's Annual Technical Conference which took place from Nov. 14-18, 2005 in Anaheim, CA.

In the first award bestowed on a company rather than an individual, Vanu was selected for showing outstanding leadership in both technology architecture development and product design in the SDR market space. At the award ceremony, the SDR Forum cited Vanu as "a company that has rapidly become the SDR company that others in the industry aspire to emulate". Dr. Vanu Bose was recognized as the principal inventor of the software radio technology at the core of Vanu's products. Dr. John Chapin, Vanu's CTO, was also recognized for playing a major role in the development of SDR technology, not just within Vanu, but also in leadership positions on Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) working groups within the SDR Forum and JTRS communities.

"This is the most prestigious award in the software radio field," said Dr. John Chapin, CTO of Vanu. "The SDR Forum plays a pivotal role in the industry and we are thrilled to be listed with the visionaries and researchers they have previously honored."

Past recipients of the award include Joseph Mitola III, Ph.D, Consulting Scientist, MITRE Corporation; Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission; and Jeffrey Reed, Ph.D, Professor and Associate Director of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Vanu, Inc. was the first company to launch an FCC certified software defined radio product, the Anywave(TM) Base Station in March of 2005. Vanu offers the Anywave Base Station as a turnkey system fully implemented, tested and optimized for each deployment by the company's service professionals. Vanu also licenses software radio technologies and waveforms (air interfaces) and provides design consulting services to wireless device manufacturers, systems integrators and service providers.

About Vanu, Inc.

Vanu, Inc. is the developer of the Anywave(TM) Base Station, the world's first U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified software radio. The Anywave Base Station affords greater flexibility than traditional radios and offers wireless network operators the ability to lower CAPEX and OPEX and to use their spectrum more efficiently. Vanu applies modern software engineering techniques to the high-speed signal processing elements at the core of wireless devices to create portable software radio applications increasing the pace of innovation in wireless devices. The company licenses software radio components and applications and provides design-consulting services to wireless OEMs, system integrators and service providers. Vanu was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Mass. www.vanu.com

About the Software Defined Radio Forum

The Software Defined Radio Forum is an international industry association dedicated to supporting the development and deployment of software defined radio systems that enable flexible and adaptable architectures in advanced wireless systems. The membership of the SDR Forum spans commercial, defense, and civil government organizations, and includes wireless service providers, network operators, component and equipment manufacturers, hardware and software developers, regulatory agencies, and academia. Presently numbering more than 100 organizations, the SDR Forum's membership includes major commercial wireless players from Asia, Europe, and North America. The SDR Forum's administrative office is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Additional information is available on the SDR Forum website at www.sdrforum.org.

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