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ZelTech Training Solutions Executes an Exclusive Marketing and Manufacturing Agreement for the KTS Agility Military Radio

Orlando, FL – March 7, 2013. ZelTech Training Solutions, LLC of Winter Park, Florida, has entered into an exclusive marketing and manufacturing license agreement with Koos Technical Services, Inc. (KTS) of Lake Mary, Florida. ZelTech Training Solutions will exclusively provide the KTS Agility Military Radio (AMR) to the worldwide Military Training and Simulation market. Additionally, ZelTech has secured exclusive rights to manufacture the AMR under license to Koos, and plans to produce these radios at its manufacturing facility in Winter Park. KTS designed and developed the AMR, currently in use by the US Army in force on force training at multiple locations within the United States.

Zel Technologies, LLC located in Hampton, Virginia, established ZelTech Training Solutions in Winter Park in May 2011 to focus on military force-on-force and force-on-target training, range instrumentation, battlefield effects, training device technology insertions, and service life extension initiatives. In August 2012, ZelTech Training Solutions won a $35 million contract to produce the next generation Battlefield Effects Simulator for the US Army. In December, it won a Foreign Military Sales award to develop and produce live training Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (ZMILES) for the Republic of Armenia.

ZelTech’s agreement with Koos Technical Services offers a critical new capability to support live training. It will enhance the connectivity of soldiers during training exercises and assist in replicating the real-world experience they will face in combat.

KTS Wireless, a leading provider of wireless technology for more than 30 years, offers data radio products for nearly all applications in the white space and narrow band sectors. KTS Wireless “Agility Family” of radios includes, in addition to the AMR, the FCC Certified Agility WhiteSpace Radio (AWR) and the Agility Telemetry Radio (ATR) for narrow band applications.

“The KTS military radio will complement the training solutions we are providing to our customers,” stated ZelTech Training Solutions President, Bill Barfield. “The radio, coupled with our innovative training solutions, will offer our customers more comprehensive training solutions. We are proud to be the KTS marketing and manufacturing partner.”

William (Billy) M. Koos, Jr., President of KTS Wireless said, “We are extremely excited about our relationship with ZelTech Training Solutions, an acknowledged leader and expert in the Training and Simulation market. Working together, we are able to offer world-class solutions that meet the needs of our Soldiers.”

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KTS Wireless’ Agility White Space Radio (AWR), the first commercially available FCC Certified White Space radio, has won an Innovation Award at Tessco’s “Innovation Showcase 2012,” held on the club level of the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD last week.

KTS Wireless’ Agility White Space Radio won an Innovation Award in the Network Systems/Broadband category with voting from customers and integrator partners who attended the show.

“We are excited to receive this award and honored by the caliber of Tessco’s customers who reviewed our product. This recognition continues to increase awareness about white space technology and the benefits derived in applications with challenging wireless environments. White space can work with various incumbent technologies such as 2.4 GHz and 900 MHz, to provide superior non-line of sight (NLOS) coverage for the most challenging wireless network segments,” said Andy Mancone, Director of Sales and Marketing for KTS Wireless.

With this latest milestone, KTS Wireless and white space database partner Spectrum Bridge, are positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for UHF white space technology. The AWR is a cost-effective alternative that utilizes the unlicensed white space spectrum for monitoring continuous control systems or gathering time-sensitive data in difficult industrial telemetry environments such as water distribution systems, electrical power stations, and offshore oil and gas refineries. This solution can also be used for monitoring public transportation, Public Safety, and remote video surveillance.

The AWR is designed for use in harsh environments based on its weatherproof, ruggedized packaging that incorporates non-line-of-sight (NLOS) white space features. The radio is designed for Ethernet-IP-enabled industrial telemetry applications and supports data rates up to 3 Mbps and ranges up to 5 miles or greater at lower data rates. It operates in the unlicensed spectrum from 470-698 MHz to create point-to-point or point-to-multipoint networks for robust, cost-effective connections that don’t require extensive planning.

Visit http://www.ktswireless.com or call 407-260-0564 (ext.108) to learn more.

KTS Wireless offers its Agility series of radios, for narrowband and broadband requirements, through master distribution partner Tessco Technologies Incorporated in Hunt Valley, MD. Visit KTS Wireless product pages at tessco.com for more info

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The introduction of the second-generation white space radio, the AWR, prompted the agreement between the two companies whereby TESSCO will serve as the master distributor of KTS radios for North America. The successful FCC certification of the AWR is a wireless innovation milestone that positions KTSW and TESSCO to take advantage of the growing demand for UHF white space technology.

“TESSCO is pleased to be partnering with KTS Wireless to distribute their white space radio,” said TESSCO Vice President Bill Moten. “This unlicensed wireless product provides alternative solutions for the organizations that build, maintain, and use wireless networks. More importantly, it extends our commitment of offering the most comprehensive selection of outdoor and indoor wireless broadband radios for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, mesh, or SCADA applications.”

“We are very proud to be releasing our second FCC-certified white space radio and excited about our relationship with TESSCO,” said Andy Mancone, Director of Sales and Marketing at KTS Wireless. “TESSCO’s customer base aligns with our targeted market segments and is best positioned to capitalize on our first-to-market White Space technology.”

The AWR is a cost-effective alternative that utilizes the unlicensed white space spectrum for monitoring continuous control systems or gathering time-sensitive data in difficult industrial environments such as water distribution systems, electrical power stations, and offshore oil and gas refineries. This solution can also be used for monitoring public transportation, Public Safety, and remote video surveillance.

The AWR has been certified with the TV White Space platform from Spectrum Bridge.

About KTS Wireless

KTS Wireless, a leading provider of wireless technology for over 30 years, is now offering data radio products for nearly all applications in the white space and narrow band sectors. The KTS Wireless Agility Family of radios includes the FCC-Certified Agility White Space Radio (AWR) and the Agility Telemetry Radio (ATR) for narrow band applications.

About TESSCO

TESSCO Technologies (NASDAQ:TESS), is Your Total Source® for making wireless work. The convergence of wireless and the Internet is revolutionizing the way we live, work and play. New systems and applications are creating opportunities and challenges at an unprecedented rate. TESSCO is there, thinking in new ways for exceptional outcomes. TESSCO architects and delivers, with innovation, productivity and speed, the product and value chain solutions to organizations responsible for building, using and maintaining wireless broadband systems.

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Mr. Patel has contributed much to the architecture and design of KTS Wireless’ RF development for our current series of “Agility Radios.” “Bharat is an eminently qualified executive to represent KTS Wireless in all phases of engineering, sales, marketing and support in the region,” said Andy Mancone, Director of Sales and Marketing for KTS Wireless. “Having held Senior Management roles at NERA, P-COM and Centerpoint he brings a wealth of experience in the PTP and PTMP Radio products for the ETSI compliant markets.”

KTS Wireless, a leading provider of wireless technology for over 30 years, is now offering data radio products for nearly all applications in the white space and narrow band sectors. KTS Wireless “Agility Family of radios includes the FCC Certified Agility WhiteSpace Radio (AWR) and the Agility Telemetry Radio (ATR) for narrow band applications.

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FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology Issues Public Notice to Start Operation of Spectrum Bridge’s TV White Spaces Database System and Authorization of a TV White Spaces Device

Washington, D.C. – Washington, D.C. – Today, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Public Notice announcing that the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has approved Spectrum Bridge Inc.’s television white spaces database system, which may provide service to devices beginning January 26, 2012. OET has also approved a device by Koos Technical Services, Inc. (KTS) as the first product allowed to operate on an unlicensed basis on unused frequencies in the TV bands. The KTS device will operate in conjunction with the Spectrum Bridge TV band database.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, “With today’s approval of the first TV white spaces database and device, we are taking an important step towards enabling a new wave of wireless innovation. Unleashing white spaces spectrum has the potential to exceed even the many billions of dollars in economic benefit from Wi-Fi, the last significant release of unlicensed spectrum, and drive private investment and job creation.”

Unused spectrum between TV stations – known as “white spaces” – represents a valuable opportunity for provision of broadband data services in our changing wireless landscape. This unused TV spectrum provides a major new platform for innovation and delivery of service, with potential for both research and commercial applications. Development of unlicensed radio transmitting devices has already led to a wave of new consumer technologies, including Wi-Fi and other innovations like digital cordless phones and in-home video distribution systems that have generated billions of dollars of economic growth. This new technology will build on that track record and provide even more benefits to the U.S. economy.

Commission rules require that unlicensed TV band devices contact an authorized database system to obtain a list of channels that are available for their operation (i.e., channels not occupied by authorized radio services) at their individual locations and must operate only on those channels.

The approval granted by OET allows Spectrum Bridge to commence operational service to new devices that can take advantage of the TV spectrum to provide service over greater ranges than those of Wi-Fi devices operating on higher frequencies.

Initial operation under this approval will be limited to Wilmington, NC and the surrounding area and will expand nationwide pending completion and activation of the Commission’s facilities for processing requests for protection of unlicensed wireless microphone at event venues. Parties in the Wilmington area that wish to register wireless microphones for event venues during this period of limited operation must send a request
to OET by e-mail in accordance with the instructions provided in the Public Notice.

The new KTS TV bands device is designed and approved for fixed operations that serve any broadband data applications. The device will contact the Spectrum Bridge database to identify channels that are available for operation at its location and can provide high-speed Internet connectivity.

Read the Public Notice here:

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The ADR is a member of the KTS Wireless Agility Radio Family and the first certified white space radio. The next generation Agility Whitespace Radio (AWR) is expected to be certified and shipping in the first quarter of 2012 in both VHF and UHF models. All white space Agility radios use the Spectrum Bridge Whitespace database for channel authorization.

The Agility Radio Family provides maximum flexibility and offers user configurable data rates, channel bandwidths and operating frequency in licensed and unlicensed bands. All of the family members support seamless Ethernet transport and models are available with RS-232 serial port connections for support of legacy equipment. Please visit www.ktswireless.com for details.

KTS Wireless is offering their Agility Whitespace Radios in a 2+2 pack targeted at early white space adopters wishing to begin utilization of white space channels in their respective service areas.

“Whether our Agility Radios, used in conjunction with Spectrum Bridge’s TV white space database system, are used in bringing broadband internet to rural inhabitants for the first time, or enabling machine to machine communications, or improving the coordination and effectiveness of healthcare, we are proud to be a part of this most exciting and empowering technological development,” said Andy Mancone, Director of Sales and Marketing at KTS Wireless.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, “With today’s approval of the first TV white spaces database and device, we are taking an important step towards enabling a new wave of wireless innovation. Unleashing white spaces spectrum has the potential to exceed even the many billions of dollars in economic benefit from Wi-Fi, the last significant release of unlicensed spectrum, and drive private investment and job creation.”

About KTS Wireless
KTS Wireless is the standard products division of Koos Technical Services, Inc which has been providing wireless solutions for over 28 years. KTS Wireless manufactures the Agility Radio Family composed of the Agility Telemetry Radio (ATR), the Agility Military Radio (AMR), and the Agility Whitespace Radio (AWR). In addition, the legacy Agility Data Radio is the first radio to be certified by the FCC for use as a TV Whitespace device. The radio family emphasizes frequency, data rate, and application agility to cover a wide range of applications including broadband internet access, video surveillance, SCADA, and narrowband telemetry.