LOS ALTOS, Calif., February 7, 2005 -- Provigent Inc., a leading provider of system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for broadband wireless transmission, announced today that it has scored its 19th design win.  Provigent's customers include leading vendors of point-to-point radio systems in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

Products represented in the design wins include Provigent's recently introduced PVG310, a single-chip modem now generally available and fully qualified.  Serial quantities have been shipped to customers worldwide, and point-to-point radio systems based on the PVG310 have already been deployed.  The PVG310 is designed into a broad variety of PDH, SDH and IP systems – in all commonly-used data rates and frequency bands, both licensed and licensed-exempt – for use in cellular backhaul infrastructure, fixed wireless-transmission networks, and private networks in government, enterprise, utility, and other market sectors. 

“Reaching 19 design wins is a major vote of confidence for our products and for Provigent as a merchant silicon provider,” said Eli Leizerovitz, Provigent's vice president sales and business development.  “Our customers represent more than a third of the point-to-point radio systems market, including multiple of first-tier customers with annual sales above $100 million.”

“The pace of our design wins exceeded all of our expectations, and additional orders are in the pipeline.  This is clear evidence that a real need exists for an off-the-shelf SoC solution in this fragmented industry.  By using Provigent solutions such as the PVG310, our customers significantly reduce development costs and time-to-market of their new point-to-point radio systems.”

Provigent's PVG310 is a highly integrated single-chip modem that was specifically optimized for point-to-point radio systems.  It incorporates state-of-the-art modulation, demodulation and FEC (forward error correction) functions.  A highly flexible chip, the PVG310 supports a net payload of up to 311Mbps (2xSTM-1) and 622Mbps (STM-4) using XPIC (cross-polarization interface cancellation) technology.

About Provigent

Provigent is a fabless semiconductor company aiming to become the leading supplier of SoC solutions for the broadband wireless transmission industry.  The company is financed by leading venture capital companies and private individuals such as Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of QUALCOMM (Nasdaq: QCOM). 

More information is available at,

On the web: www.provigent.com.

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Media contacts:
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