Avnet Taps Xovix Wireless Engineering to Assist Customers in Implementing Mobile Communications

Business Wire, July 28, 2004

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. & PHOENIX -- Xovix Wireless Engineering, LLC and Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) announced today that Avnet Design Services can now offer to its customers Xovix's design, integration, test, and certification services. Customers who are leading the way in incorporating wireless communications into their products can take advantage of Xovix's wireless engineering team. Xovix helps them get to market faster, reduce risks, and more efficiently obtain regulatory, industry and carrier approvals. In a growing number of markets, significant competitive advantages can be won by those customers who are first to effectively adopt wireless communications in their respective segment. Avnet's portfolio of products and Xovix's depth in wireless engineering give them the ability to address a broad spectrum of wireless communications technologies. Together, Avnet Design Services and Xovix provide wireless communications support for applications ranging from wide area mobile communications to local area networking to short range communications used for monitoring, tracking and control.

"The biggest challenges customers face in incorporating mobile wireless communications into their applications is dealing with unique RF (radio frequency) engineering challenges, passing complex regulatory and industry certification requirements, and gaining individual carrier approvals," said Taizoon Doctor, president and CEO of Xovix. "Customers can take advantage of Xovix's highly experienced team to overcome these challenges and drive their applications into the market quickly and more cost effectively."

"This is another example of Avnet Design Services providing our customers with best-of-class products and services at the leading edge of technology," stated Jim Schaeffer, senior vice president of Avnet Design Services, "Complementing our own suite of design service capabilities are engagements with innovative specialists like Xovix. The combination enables Avnet Design Services to deliver a complete range of integrated technical solutions, across a wide range of applications. All of this effort is focused on helping our customers achieve their goals."

About Xovix Wireless Engineering, LLC

Xovix Inc. is a leader in wireless engineering. It provides wireless engineering and test expertise to the industry's leading wireless building-block providers to assist them in completing or expanding their product lines and to innovative companies who want to incorporate wireless communication capabilities into their products. Xovix has extensive expertise in RF and digital hardware design, embedded software development, design verification, and wireless system integration. It maintains advanced laboratories for environmental, certification, and network interoperability testing and has a successful track record in obtaining regulatory and operator approvals. Embedded modules designed by the Xovix team provide worldwide connectivity for T-Mobile's Sidekick(a) personal digital assistant (PDA) and Danger Inc.'s Hiptop(a) PDA. See www.xovix.com for more information.

About Avnet

Avnet enables success at the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 250 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components, enterprise computer and network equipment, software, storage and embedded subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. Avnet generated more than $9B of revenue in fiscal 2003 (year ended June 27, 2003) with sales in 68 countries.

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