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Mercury Computer Systems Announces Application-Ready Platform for Wideband Data Links and SATCOM Processing

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 09:00 CDT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced the availability of its application-ready platform for wideband data links and satellite communications (WBDLS) processing, at MILCOM 2006 in Washington, DC.

The integrated COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) platform includes the Mercury Echotek(TM) Series ECV4-RFT 6U Wideband Remote Fiber Transceiver, which combines high-speed A/D and D/A technology, Xilinx(R) Virtex(TM)-4 FPGA reconfigurable processing, and fiber I/O. This board brings the benefits of COTS to applications such as 274 Mbps and higher wideband data links that require a blend of wideband I/O from dual 1.5 Gsps 8-bit A/D converters and dual 1.2 Gsps 14-bit D/A converters, combined with powerful processing and low-latency data transfer. The onboard FPGA reconfigurable processing resources bring digital processing capabilities closer to the sensor (typically an antenna), and enable multi-board coherent processing in distributed systems.

"Mercury's subsystem-level solutions make COTS available for the latest wideband communications links," said Mike Kosmicki, Director of Defense Communications at Mercury Computer Systems. "Our rugged offerings combine the high-speed A/D and D/A converters, FPGAs, and waveform component portability infrastructure necessary for developing and deploying WBDLS applications in program builds just months away."

The integrated solution includes Mercury's Component Portability Infrastructure (CPI), which provides a pre-validated platform to interface the FPGA waveform application with a high-performance switch fabric, onboard memory, communications, system command and control, and I/O. CPI's non- proprietary Open Core Protocol (OCP)-based interfaces act as a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to increase the portability of FPGA applications. CPI also provides software modules necessary to seamlessly integrate the infrastructure to any SCA v2.2+ compliant Core Framework.

Mercury will demonstrate CPI using FPGAs at MILCOM 2006 in Booth #1013. In addition, Mercury will present three papers in the Technical Program's Radio Systems and Technologies Track, and participate on the panel "COTS is ready for Wideband Data Links and SATCOM processing," during the MILCOM 2006 exhibition at the Wardman Park Marriott, Washington, DC. For more information, visit http://www.mc.com/Wbdls or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or info@mc.com.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. - Where Challenges Drive Innovation

Mercury Computer Systems is the leading provider of computing systems and software for data-intensive applications that include image processing, signal processing, and visualization. With a strong commitment to innovation, our expertise in algorithm optimization, systems development, and silicon design is blended with software application knowledge and industry-standard technologies to solve unique computing challenges. We work closely with our customers to architect solutions that have a meaningful impact on everyday life: detecting aneurysms; designing safer, more fuel-efficient aircraft; identifying security threats; discovering oil; developing new drugs; and visualizing virtually every aspect of scientific investigation.

Mercury's comprehensive, purpose-built solutions capture, process, and present data for the world's largest medical imaging companies, 8 of the 10 top defense prime contractors, and other leading Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in semiconductor, energy, telecommunications, and other industries. Our dedication to performance excellence and collaborative innovation continues a 23-year history in enabling customers to stay at the forefront of the markets they serve.

Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. We are listed on the Nasdaq National Market . Visit Mercury at http://www.mc.com/.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the wideband data links and satellite communications platform offerings. You can identify these statements by our use of the words "may,""will,""should,""plans,""expects,""anticipates,""continue,""estimate,""project,""intend," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government's interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.

Contacts: Mike Kosmicki Kathy Sniezek Director of Defense Communications Public Relations Manager Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. 978-967-1833 / mkosmicki@mc.com 978-967-1126 / ksniezek@mc.com

Echotek is a trademark of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Xilinx is a registered trademark and Virtex is a trademark of Xilinx Corporation. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Mike Kosmicki, Director of Defense Communications,+1-978-967-1833, mkosmicki@mc.com, or Kathy Sniezek, Public Relations Manager,+1-978-967-1126, ksniezek@mc.com, both of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Web site: http://www.mc.com/http://www.mc.com/Wbdls

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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