Azimuth Systems has announced several milestones achieved in 2006. The company achieved record revenue for 2006 and solidified its position as a major provider of test solutions for wireless devices and networks. It supported data, voice and video applications by adding more than 50 customers. Azimuth also received an additional $7.5 million in funding from its current investors in December of 2006, positioning the company for expansion into the WiMAX and cellular markets.

The company has shipped to more than 100 wireless semiconductor, system vendors and service providers, including Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco, Marvell, Motorola, Netgear, T-Mobile and Vonage. Azimuth customers accounted for more than 98% of all Wi-Fi units sold in 2006,according to Sam Lucero of ABI Research. Service providers were a major growth segment for Azimuth in 2006.

Most recently, the company announced that the Wi-Fi Alliance will be using its AzCert Wi-Fi Certification test suite for test engine-enabled devices to perform testing according to the new Wi-Fi Alliance Test Engine architecture. The test suite will be used by Wi-Fi Alliance Authorized Test Laboratories (ATLs) for certification testing and also allows product vendors, device manufacturers and semiconductor vendors to pre-test using the same approach.