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Wavion Selected by TECHS Brazil, to Replace its Mikrotik Broadband Network

Wavion Partners with Ural's Carrier, Uralsviazinform, to Deliver Wireless Broadband Access to Ekaterinburg and other Cities in the Region

Wavion Releases Enhanced VoIP Support for Residential and Business Connectivity

Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited provides Wi-Fi Coverage in Mumbai with Wavion Base Stations

Wavion selected by Coolnet to Provide Wi-Fi Coverage in main cities of the Palestinian Territories

Wavion selected by IT Connect to Provide Wi-Fi Coverage in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Wavion and TelExcell Partner to Deliver Superior Broadband Wireless Solutions to India

Wavion Wi-Fi Base Stations Provide Broadband Residential and Business Connectivity in Pelham, Alabama

Wavion International Product Portfolio Launch Road Show Starts in Nigeria

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Wavion Introduces a New Coverage Tool for Service Providers enabling Optimization of Wi-Fi Coverage

Wavion Partners with Two Distributors and Opens a Local Office in Brazil

Wavion selected by San Luis Telecommunications to Provide Wi-Fi Coverage for Formula GT1 and F1 in San Luis, Argentina

Wavion partners with Emperion to Create a Nationwide Wi-Fi Network in Nigeria

Yoqne’am, Israel, Oct 30, 2008 — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, and Emperion of Lagos, Nigeria, today announced the deployment of Wavion WBS-2400 Base Stations throughout Nigeria. The WBS-2400 base station will deliver high-speed internet access (Wi-Fi) to large and small towns, as well as rural villages in Nigeria.

“After careful selection process, we have chosen Wavion’s WBS-2400 Base Stations for our nationwide deployment in Nigeria,” said Sandeep Jayaswal, Emperion’s Managing Director. “This is the first nationwide deployment in Nigeria targeting Internet services under one umbrella. Emperion Franchise, through its Hot Zones program, aims to provide low cost, quality Internet services working with local partners all over the country. This franchise program is a revolutionary concept that will make internet available to the Nigerian public all over the country.”

Wavion’s powerful WBS-2400 spatially adaptive, beamforming base stations provide extended range and throughput and enables high quality Wi-Fi connectivity to standard clients such as those embedded in laptops and other computers. Wavion’s Wi-Fi base station triples the coverage and doubles the capacity in comparison to standard Access Points (APs).

“We’re proud to be selected by Emperion for their pioneering deployment in Nigeria and are excited to be a part of their vision and help make it a reality” said Eran Kaplan Wavion’s EVP of Sales and Marketing. ”Our superior performance in terms of range and throughput creates a unique value proposition for wide-area coverage for both urban and rural deployments.”

About Wavion Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN), and BRM Capital. Wavion headquarter is located in Yoqne’am, Israel and the company has offices in , San Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Delhi, India, and Jakarta, Indonesia.

To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavionnetworks.com.

About Emperion Emperion is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a fully owned subsidiary of Emperion A/S Denmark. Emperion has initiated a nationwide franchise program in Nigeria that will provide high quality internet services to the mass market through its Emperion Franchise program encompassing Hot Zones, Cyber Zones, Video Zones, Support Zones and Stock Point Zones. Emperion is a leader name in Nigerian corporate communications networks and has Nigeria’s top seven banks and a major blue chip company on its network. Emperion has now ventured into the retail market through its nationwide franchise program. Emperion head office is in Copenhagen, Denmark and has a Middle East office in Dubai. Emperion is funded by Scandinavia’s premier venture capital company Andersen Advisory Group (www.aag.dk). For more details please visit www.emperion.net .

Contact: Tally Netzer

Marketing Communications Manager tally@wavionnetworks.com

Wavion and Leadcom Provide Public Safety Solution to Ness Ziona Municipality

September 2, 2008

Wavion and Leadcom Provide Public Safety Solution to Ness Ziona Municipality

Yoqne’am, Israel, September 2, 2008 — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station and Leadcom Integrated Solutions, a leading international provider of innovative telecommunication solutions announced today the successful deployment of a comprehensive video surveillance project in the municipality of Ness Ziona, Israel. . Wavion delivered the high-speed wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi) using its advanced WBS-2400 base stations.

Wavion’s powerful WBS-2400 spatially adaptive beamforming base stations provide extended range and higher throughput connectivity to standards-based Wi-Fi clients. Wavion’s Wi-Fi solution requires one third fewer units than other competing Access Points (APs) to cover the same area, with superior indoor penetration and fewer dead spots. The superior Wi-Fi performance makes Wavion an ideal infrastructure solution for video surveillance.

The use of a wireless connectivity offers significant savings and simplifies the deployment and time to market of a video surveillance solution. There is no need to lay cumbersome cables throughout the city and cameras can easily be mounted at any position.

“We are determined in our pursuit of our vision of a city clean of crime, vandalism and theft. The video surveillance system plays a huge part in furthering this goal” said Yaron Levi, Security Manager from the Ness Ziona Municipality. “The wireless solution that Leadcom and Wavion offered was more cost effective than building a new wireline infrastructure, and allowed us to provide the necessary coverage for all of our strategic locations with a higher bandwidth. We were positively surprised with the extent of the success of this project, which was significantly more than we originally expected”.

“After thorough testing, we have selected Wavion Wi-Fi solution due to its superior performance”, said Yoel Bar Gil, Leadcom CTO. “Wavion’s WBS-2400 base stations allowed us to deploy the network very quickly and cost effectively.”

“We are honored to be selected with Leadcom for the Ness Ziona public safety project” said Eran Kaplan Wavion’s Executive VP Sales and Marketing. ”The superior performance in terms of coverage and high bandwidth makes the WBS-2400 base station a key enabler for wireless public safety solutions.”

About Wavion

Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN), and BRM Capital. Wavion headquarters are located in Yoqne’am, Israel and the company has offices in San Jose, California US, San Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jakarta, Indonesia and New Delhi, India. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavionnetworks.com .

About Leadcom
Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. (Leadcom, AIM: LEAD), established in 1982, is an international leader in innovative telecommunications solutions. Incorporated in Israel, Leadcom was admitted to London’s AIM market in April 2005. Operating in over 50 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, Leadcom delivers services in the supply, implementation and management of telecommunication network services and solutions. For further information, please visit www.leadcom-is.com

Contact:

Tally Netzer

Marketing Communications Manager

Wavion Ltd.

Tel: +972.73.249.7300

Fax: +972.4.959.4122

tally@wavionnetworks.com

Wavion Partners with Three Indian Distributors and Opens a Local Office in India

Wavion Wins a Wide-Area Wi-Fi Project in San Luis Province, Argentina

June 3, 2008

Wavion Wins a Wide-Area Wi-Fi Project in San Luis Province, Argentina

Yoqne’am, Israel, July 1, 2008 — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, the University of La Punta, responsible for the San Luis province network design, and Xiden Networking today announced the deployment of Wavion WBS-2400 Base Stations in the province of San Luis, Argentina. The WBS-2400 will deliver high-speed wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) to the province, its schools and town.

“We are proud to be the pioneers in providing wide-area, free internet connectivity in Argentina,” said La Punta University Rector and San Luis Minister of Development Alicia Bañuelos, “This is the first deployment in Argentina where Internet connectivity is provided for town-wide coverage. We believe that this project will foster economic development and tourism in the province and will help close the digital divide by enabling the children in the province to access the internet at school and at their homes.”

Wavion’s powerful WBS-2400 spatially adaptive beamforming base stations provide extended range and higher throughput connectivity to standards-based Wi-Fi clients, such as those embedded in laptops and other notebook computers. Wavion’s Wi-Fi solution requires one third fewer units than other competing Access Points (APs) to cover the same area, with superior indoor penetration and fewer dead spots.

“We applaud the San Luis province for their vision and initiative”, said Ariel Scaliter, CEO of Xiden Networking, the System Integrator of the project. “We hope that this project will serve as a role model for other provinces in Argentina in providing internet connectivity to their rural communities”.

“We are proud to be selected by the San Luis province for their pioneering project in Argentina and honored in taking part in their vision and making it a reality” said Eran Kaplan Wavion’s Executive VP Sales and Marketing. ”Our superior performance in terms of range, throughput and indoor penetration create a unique value proposition for wide-area broadband coverage and is critical to the success of this project.”

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN), and BRM Capital. Wavion headquarters are located in Yoqne’am, Israel and the company has offices in San Jose, California US, San Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jakarta, Indonesia and New Delhi, India. To learn more, please visit Wavion at www.wavionnetworks.com .

About La Punta University
La Punta University role is to foster progress and growth in the San Luis province. Its mission is to be the provincial instrument to provide the San Luis inhabitants with the opportunity of forming themselves intellectually, socially and culturally.
As part of this mission, La Punta University has initiated the deployment of a broadband network in the province and is leading the deployment of a wide-area WiFi network for internet connectivity to complement this network. www.ulp.edu.ar.

About XN Argentina – Xiden Networking
XN Argentina is a Latin-American provider of high-performance IT integration solutions – delivering secure, converged computing and communications infrastructure and services. The integrated services comprise the architecture, deployment and integration of datacomm and wireless solutions. XN headquarters are located in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Contact:
Tally Netzer
Marketing Communications Manager
Wavion Ltd.
Tel: +972.73.249.7300
Fax: +972.4.959.4122
tally@wavionnetworks.com

Nicolás Goulu
Regional Vice President of Sales
Latin America and Caribbean Region
Wavion LTD.
Tel: +54 91167270201
nicolas@wavionnetworks.co

One Laptop Per Child becomes a Reality with Wavion Solutions in Uruguay

April 30, 2008

One Laptop Per Child becomes a Reality with Wavion Solutions in Uruguay

Wavion Base Stations to Provide Wi-Fi Infrastructure to the Pioneering OLPC Project in Uruguay

Yoqne’am, Israel, April 29, 2008 — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, and the Technological Laboratories of Uruguay (LATU), the organization leading the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Uruguay, known as the CEIBAL Project (Basic Connectivity for Education), today announced the deployment of Wavion’s solutions in Uruguay. Wavion’s base stations will deliver high-speed wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) to schools in several provinces and to the towns and villages.

“We applaud LATU for their pioneering project in Uruguay,” said OLPC visionary and founder Nicholas Negroponte, “This is the first OLPC nationwide deployment project in the world where internet connectivity is provided both at schools and at the pupils’ towns and homes, thus significantly enhancing the learning experience by extending the learning process beyond the school hours and enabling the children to share their experience with their families and friends.”

The unique and powerful digital beamforming technology embedded in Wavion’s spatially adaptive base stations provides extended range and penetration, minimizes dead spots. It requires about one third fewer units than other competing access points (APs) to cover the same area, and provides a high quality network for all the variety of applications enabled by Wi-Fi. Wavion’s technology significantly improves the link gain and quality to 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients - such as those found in OLPC’s XO laptop and other notebook computers.

“After lengthy comparative testing and careful selection process, we have chosen Wavion as one of the main technologies to deliver wireless Internet access in the CEIBAL project”, said Miguel Brechner, President of LATU. “Thanks to the CEIBAL project and to Wavion’s Wi-Fi technology, we’re able to bring the benefits of wireless broadband access to remote communities in Uruguay and provide internet connectivity to the children in these communities both at their schools and their homes. This is the first step in our plan to provide such level of connectivity to all the provinces of Uruguay.”

“We’re proud to be selected by LATU for their pioneering OLPC project in Uruguay and honored in taking part in the OLPC vision and making it a reality” said Tal Meirzon Wavion’s CEO. ”Our superior performance in terms of range, throughput and indoor penetration has been critical to the success of this project.”

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (ELRN), and BRM Capital. Wavion headquarters are located in Yoqne’am, Israel and the company has offices in San Jose, California US, San Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jakarta, Indonesia and New Delhi, India. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavionnetworks.com.

About LATU
LATU is a state owned technical laboratory, whose mission is to foster sustainable development of Uruguay through innovation and transfer of valuable technological solutions. It is a centre of excellence, considered as a national reference by the Uruguayan community and internationally acknowledged by the quality of the services it provides and by its organizational model.
http://www.latu.org.uy

About OLPC
OLPC is a non-profit organization founded by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte whose mission is to foster the children's innate capacities to learn, share, and create on their own by providing them the XO laptop, a low cost children's machine specifically designed for “learning.”
http://laptop.org

Contact:
Tally Netzer
Marketing Communications Manager
tally@wavionnetworks.com

Wavion Introduces Self-Backhaul Wi-Fi - Optimal service with No Alignments

June 3, 2008

Wavion Introduces Self-Backhaul Wi-Fi - Optimal service with No Alignments

Wavion WBS-2400 Base Station Now Supports Self-Backhaul with SW release 2.2

Yoqne’am, Israel, June 3, 2008 — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, today announced the release of a new SW version supporting self-backhaul based on its digital beamforming technology.

The powerful digital beamforming technology of Wavion’s spatially adaptive base stations has now been extended to provide self-backhaul to and from neighboring base stations. Wavion’s self backhaul provides optimal service without requiring alignments of any kind, making the installation quick and simple.

Wavion’s beamforming technology leverages six radios and antennas to provide a high quality and robust base-station to base-station self-backhaul with unmatched characteristics:

Very high link gain
Superior non-line-of-sight performance
Interference resilience

The self-backhaul feature has been successfully tested by Wavion’s beta customers. “We are very satisfied with the self-backhaul feature of the WBS-2400 base station. It is a great asset to the product and allows us to deploy our Wi-Fi networks very quickly and cost-effectively”, said Jeff Blank, Chief Technical Officer, CONXX.

Wavion’s new SW release will support also the Wireless Multi-Media (WMM) standard for quality of service for voice and video, as well as the latest WPA2 security standard.

“The addition of self-backhauling capabilities to our base stations is an important step in our strategy to provide operators with a complete solution that meets their most urgent needs” said Dr. Mati Wax Wavion’s CTO. “Our self-backhaul drastically simplifies the deployment of our WBS-2400 base stations and provides the operators with further savings in CAPEX and OPEX”.

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN), and BRM Capital. Wavion headquarters are located in Yoqne’am, Israel and the company has offices in San Jose, California US, San Paulo, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jakarta, Indonesia and New Delhi, India. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavionnetworks.com.

Contact:
Tally Netzer
Marketing Communications Manager
tally@wavionnetworks.com

Wavion Access Points to Provide Wi-Fi Coverage to the Nigerian National Assembly

14-Feb, 2008

Wavion Access Points to Provide Wi-Fi Coverage to the Nigerian National Assembly

Yoqne'am, Israel, Febuary 14, 2008 - Wavion, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a new category of access points (APs), and Netlink Technologies, a pioneer in delivering wireless broadband data services in Nigeria, today announced the deployment of Wavion's WS410 spatially adaptive APs to the Nigerian National Assembly complex and Senator's offices in Abuja.

The unique and powerful digital beamforming technology embedded in Wavion's spatially adaptive APs provides extended range and penetration, minimizes dead spots, requires about one third fewer units than other outdoor APs to cover the same area, and provides a high quality network for all the variety of applications enabled by Wi-Fi.

"We are proud to be able to deliver wireless Internet access to the Nigerian National Assembly," said Dumebi Kachikwu, CEO of Netlink Technologies. "Thanks to Wavion's technology and the Netlink network, we're able to bring the benefits of wireless broadband access to the National Assembly complex and provide internet access to all its offices and meeting rooms."

Unlike other APs in the market, Wavion's spatially adaptive AP is based on six radio transceivers and six antennas, and employs advanced digital beamforming technology. Based on a custom-designed ASIC optimized for the outdoor environment, Wavion's technology significantly improves the link gain and quality to 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients - such as those found in nearly all recently manufactured notebook computers.

"We're honored to help Netlink Technologies transform the Nigerian National Assembly to a WiFi zone with our powerful and unique digital beamforming technology," said Dr. Mati Wax, Wavion's Founder and CTO. "Our superior performance in terms of range, throughput and indoor penetration has been crucial to the success of this deployment."

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of spatially adaptive access point. The company's digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavionnetworks.com.

About Netlink Technologies
Netlink Technologies is a pioneer in delivering wireless broadband data services in Nigeria. The company is changing the rules of Internet access by eliminating bandwidth limitations associated with dial-up or ADSL services For more information, visit http://netlinkng.com.

Wavion Partners with ADC to Promote Open Architecture for Municipal Wi-Fi Networks

June 27, 2007

Wavion Partners with ADC to Promote Open Architecture for Municipal Wi-Fi Networks

Wavion’s WS410 Access Point, Combined with ADC’s SG-1 Service Gateway, Creates Flat Layer-2 VLAN-Based Networks for Easy Deployments and Management

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2007- Wavion™, a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of access point (AP), and ADC Telecommunications Inc.

(NASDAQ: ADCT), a leading provider of high-end networking solutions, announced today that the two companies are cooperating to create an open architecture for municipal Wi-Fi networks. This new architecture is the outcome of the integration of ADC’s SG-1 Service Gateway product with Wavion’s WS410 spatially adaptive outdoor access point (AP). This unique combination is creating a powerful and open environment in which the strength of both companies is combined, offering customers a best-of-breed solution while still enabling them to seamlessly combine other vendors’ products into their networks.

“We are excited to cooperate with Wavion,” said Joseph Lehmann, a vice president of the Active Infrastructure Business Unit at ADC. “The integration of the WS410 spatially adaptive access point and the SG-1 Service Gateway provides service providers with an architecture that will not only give a comprehensive set of networking and subscriber management features, but also enables them to seamlessly integrate other metro Wi-Fi products in the same deployment.”

The combination of the SG-1 and WS410 creates a spectrum efficient flat layer-2 VLAN-based network that is easy to deploy and manage. The SG-1 provides the best networking features and abilities, including quality of service (QoS), application usage management per user, seamless roaming and other networking features. The WS410, with its unique and powerful digital beamforming technology, provides the best radio in the market at less than half the deployment costs capable from other vendors.

Moreover, providers can mix APs from different vendors without any special effort. Not only does this capability avoid vendor lock-in but it also enables the use of the best products for specific environmental or user demands.

“We are proud of the smooth integration of WS410 and the SG-1,” said Benny Zilberstein, Wavion’s corporate VP of sales and marketing. “This shows that the Wavion product is not only the best in terms of its radio performance, but that its layer-2 design allows the service provider to create the best open architecture with the most advanced networking capabilities.”

About ADC
ADC provides the connections for wireline, wireless, cable, broadcast, and enterprise networks around the world. ADC’s innovative network infrastructure equipment and professional services enable high-speed Internet, data, video, and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers. ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) has sales into more than 130 countries. Learn more about ADC at www.adc.com.

About Wavion
Wavion™ is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of spatially adaptive access point. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELRN), Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. For more information visit http://www.wavion.net.

Wavion Access Points Chosen to Cover Cambria County with Wi-Fi Internet Access

June 11, 2007

Wavion Access Points Chosen to Cover Cambria County with Wi-Fi Internet Access

CONXX to Buy at Least 300 APs for Rural Pennsylvania Project Funded by Unique Wireless Services Business Model

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11, 2007- Wavion™, a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of access point (AP), today announced that systems integrator CONXX™ will incorporate a minimum of 300 WS410 spatially adaptive APs into a new multi-service wireless communications network for Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The new network, to launch in 2008, will ultimately deliver high-performance connectivity to all government agencies, educational institutions, public safety organizations, commercial buildings and more than 150,000 residents over the county’s almost 700 square miles.

By deploying its own carrier-grade network, Cambria County will eliminate most of its current communications costs while securely providing a variety of services and applications to a diverse user community. The savings generated by the network enables the county to including high-speed Wi-Fi Internet access through Wavion’s APs. Wavion’s proprietary digital beamforming technology saves as much as 50% on capital and operating expenditures by requiring far fewer units than other outdoor APs to cover identical areas.

“Wavion’s technology offers system integrators and network operators a new path to profitability,” Benny Zilberstein, Wavion’s Corporate Vice President Sales and Marketing, said. “While Wi-Fi is a phenomenal way for communities to bridge the digital divide facing rural residents and governments, someone still needs to pay the capital and operating costs of the network. Other companies may be struggling with their business models, but CONXX has proven that a community network with the right technology can literally pay for itself.”

In traditional metro Wi-Fi deployments, municipalities ask the private sector to finance the deployments. Prospective network operators must find anchor tenants to finance the deployments. The typical mesh infrastructure can only support a limited set of services and applications because of bandwidth and security constraints. Several notable deployments around the world have been delayed or canceled because of these challenges.

CONXX pioneered a different approach. Since 2003, the CONXX Carrier Communication Platform has been operating successfully in Allegany County, Maryland. The Allegany County Net, or AllCoNet, is a completely self-reliant network provider with ATM at its core and Ethernet at its edge. Operated as a utility, the network rivals major RBOCs at a fraction of the cost while providing a catalyst for performance-based contracting opportunities.

“When we found that we had to upgrade our public safety system, I was concerned about the cost,” Brian Feist, director of emergency service for Cambria County, said. “We needed to find a system that would not only fix our public safety problems, but could also address some of the bigger communication issues we have to leverage the investment. I think we succeeded.”

Rather than outsource ownership of their network, Cambria County looked to the model pioneered in Allegany County. There, the CONXX platform offered public Wi-Fi access, T1 and DS3 replacements for education and municipal buildings, HD video surveillance for public safety, carrier-grade VoIP, business-grade Internet, Automatic meter Reading (AMR) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems among other applications.

“The rural counties we serve cannot afford systems that don’t deliver substantial savings and performance,” David Kartchner, president of CONXX, said. “CONXX and Wavion have proven that municipalities can pay for their own carrier-grade wireless networks through performance contracts while delivering the quality and reliability demanded by private enterprise, public agencies and local residents. Everyone wins."

About CONXX
CONXX™ has developed network architecture and infrastructure to help rural communities overcome both digital and economic divides. The CONXX Carrier Communication Platform™ combines carrier-grade telecommunications technology at the core with cost-effective Ethernet technology at the edge. The CONXX Carrier Communication Observer™ is a full-service, web-based network management and operating support system for municipal networks. The privately held company’s wired and wireless networks support multiple services and service providers. CONXX is headquartered in Cumberland, Maryland, and maintains a regional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information visit http://www.conxx.net.

About Wavion
Wavion is delivering a new category of spatially adaptive access point to service providers and equipment vendors. The company's new generation of Wi-Fi technology is the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.

Wavion Wins Biennial 'Best Start-Up' Award at Telecom 2006

November 13, 2006

Wavion Wins Biennial 'Best Start-Up' Award at Telecom 2006

Wavion Shares $10,000 Prize for Its State-of-the-Art Technology and Business Potential

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 13, 2006 - Wavion™, a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of access point (AP), was awarded “Best Start-up” at Telecom 2006, Israel’s premiere event to showcase the country’s telecommunications talents.

Presented by Dr. Eli Opper, Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, the $10,000 biennial award recognizes wireless broadband innovations and business potential.
“We’re honored to be chosen for such a prestigious award,” said Wavion’s founder and CTO Dr. Mati Wax. “We are bringing a novel and powerful digital beamforming technology to the Metro Wi-Fi market, and are grateful to be recognized as a potential leader in this industry.”

Compared to other metro-scale APs, the Wavion WS410 can triple wireless coverage and
capacity while minimizing dead spots at half the cost over a given area. The WS410 is based on six radio transceivers and six antennas, and it employs advanced digital beamforming technology. Wavion is the only manufacturer to use custom-designed ASICs optimized for outdoor environments. The technology significantly improves the link gain and connection quality to off-the-shelf, 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients - such as those found in most recently manufactured notebook computers, mobile phones and PDAs.

“Wavion’s efforts highlight the state of innovation in Israel,” said Dr. Eli Opper. “As municipalities around the globe strive to improve public services, public safety and close the digital divide with Metro Wi-Fi networks, we look with pride to Wavion’s innovative achievements in this field.”

About Wavion
Wavion is delivering a new category of spatially adaptive access point to service providers and equipment vendors. The company's new generation of Wi-Fi technology is the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.

Wavion Announces Availability of the WS410 Spatially Adaptive Access Point for Metro WI-FI; Details Dramatic Field Trial Results

August 7, 2006

Wavion Announces Availability of the WS410 Spatially Adaptive Access Point for Metro WI-FI; Details Dramatic Field Trial Results

Field Trials by CONXX Reveal the Wavion WS410 Delivers Significantly Greater Coverage and Capacity over Conventional Outdoor Access Points for Metro Wi-Fi Deployments

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2006 - Wavion™, a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of access points, today announced the general availability of the WS410, a spatially adaptive Wi-Fi access point specifically designed to dramatically improve the economics and performance of metro Wi-Fi deployments. The Wavion WS410 can quadruple the coverage of existing access points in metro Wi-Fi deployments, support new applications, minimize dead spots, and better penetrate walls for a significantly improved user experience. In addition, Wavion revealed the results of field trials with CONXX, which demonstrates the power of the WS410.

CONXX built and operates Maryland’s Allegany County Network, one of the oldest municipal wireless networks in the United States. The carrier-class communication network, called AllCoNet2, provides high-quality communication services to public safety, government, education, commercial, and residential users. Based on their tests with other outdoor access points, CONXX engineers expected 200 to 250 meters of radial coverage with data rates averaging between 1-6 megabits per second (Mbps). Instead, results from their first field trials revealed more than double the coverage in NLOS (non line-of-sight) and LOS and conditions. During the same tests, data rates routinely hit 10-15 Mbps and peaked at 21 Mbps.

“Frankly, we are impressed. We have been testing many types and manufacturers of Wi-Fi equipment over the past several months. Of all the equipment we tested, we found that coverage was fairly undistinguishing between manufacturers, until we received the Wavion WS410,” said Jeff Blank, Chief Technical Officer of CONXX. “We had incorrectly concluded that all Wi-Fi equipment was mostly the same from a radio frequency (RF) standpoint. As a result, we had come to the false realization that Wi-Fi equipment would have to be evaluated solely on its software features and not its RF performance. The WS410 changed everything.”

“The Wavion WS410 offers significant benefits to infrastructure equipment vendors, service providers, municipal organizations, and customers eager for metro Wi-Fi deployments to deliver Internet access where they work, drive and live,” said Ran Eisenberg, Wavion’s CEO. “Launching the world’s first metro-scale access point with digital beamforming is a big first step on the road to transform the metro Wi-Fi market.”

The Wavion WS410 Improves Performance, Penetration and Profitability
A single WS410, which serves up to 254 standard Wi-Fi clients, is designed to perform the work of three to four conventional access points, reducing service providers’ capital and operating expenditures by more than 50 percent.

“This ability to continually optimize the wireless signal, regardless of the changes in the electromagnetic environment, moving objects and other environmental factors, is critical to any successful metro-scale Wi-Fi deployment in a dense urban area,” said Sam Lucero, senior analyst for ABI Research. “Wavion's use of digital beamforming in outdoor access points is an important technological development that will help to improve performance, reliability, and capacity.”

The WS410 uses six radio transceivers and six 7.5 dBi omni-directional antennas. It employs advanced digital beamforming to optimally focus radio energy to and from network clients on a per-packet basis, significantly improving the range and quality of the link. The key to this significant performance gain is the ability to exploit the different propagation paths from the access point antennas to the client and assuring that all propagating signals sum coherently at the client. Pre-authentication ensures fast handoffs and consistent performance across the network. This advanced technology provides significant performance gains for any off-the-shelf, 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients - such as those found in nearly all recently manufactured notebook computers.

The technology also allows Wavion to gain from a new U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation. This new FCC regulation allows multiple-antenna systems that utilize beamforming technology to deliver more power than conventional systems, as they adaptively focus their energy directly at a client. While conventional access points are limited to 36 dBm (decibels of measured power referenced to one milliwatt) in effective radiated power, Wavion’s system is allowed to deliver up to 42 dBm.

The WS410’s intelligence resides in customized ASICs, which tightly integrate beamforming signal processing with the PHY and MAC network layers, incorporating advanced algorithms that continually compensate for dynamic outdoor conditions.

The Wavion WS410:

May be mounted on light poles, rooftops, or any other suitable outdoor location, and can be easily integrated with other backhaul options. The 20-pound AP can tap standard AC, streetlights, NEMA photoelectric controls or Power over Ethernet for power. With its rugged construction, the WS410 can withstand salt, fog, rust, and winds up to 140 mph.
Supports up to 16 Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs) and up to 16 virtual LANs (IEEE 802.1q VLANs) for wholesale and retail services. Different security options can be associated to each VLAN. To prevent unauthorized network intrusion, the WS410 supports Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and is software upgradeable to WPA2 Enterprise (IEEE 802.11i) security methods.
Will provide the latest IEEE 802.11e and the Wireless Multimedia (WMM) quality of service (QoS) to prioritize traffic, ensuring the strength and clarity of voice transmissions by reducing latency and jitter. The higher throughput offered by the WS410 also contributes to voice quality by minimizing delays.
Includes a complete suite of remote management capabilities, including web-based configuration and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traffic monitoring with a full set of system performance and switching statistics. The onboard management system features an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

The WS410 is the first in a family of spatially adaptive access points Wavion will be releasing to original equipment manufacturers and other partners. Complete product specifications for the WS410 are available now from Wavion’s website, http://www.wavion.net. Pricing and availability information is available now from Wavion and soon from OEMs and partners.

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of spatially adaptive access point. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne’am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.

Wavion Access Points to Provide Citywide Wi-Fi Coverage in Cumberland,

May 22, 2006

Wavion Access Points to Provide Citywide Wi-Fi Coverage in Cumberland,
Maryland Deployment from CONXX

CONXX to Cover Cumberland’s 10 Square Miles With Approximately 120 Wavion WS410 Access Points, Delivering Superior Throughput and Building Penetration at Half the Comparable Cost

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 4, 2006 - Wavion™, a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of access points (APs), today announced an agreement with CONXX of Cumberland, Maryland to add approximately 120 WS410 spatially adaptive APs to their network. CONXX designed, built and operates Maryland’s Allegany County Network, known as “AllCoNet,” one of the first municipal wireless networks in the United States. The addition of Wavion’s APs will enable the network to deliver high-speed wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) over Cumberland’s 10 square miles.

The unique and powerful digital beamforming technology embedded in Wavion’s spatially adaptive APs provides extended range and penetration, minimizes dead spots, requires two-thirds fewer units than other outdoor APs to cover the same area, and supports the variety of applications and services CONXX is extending wirelessly to Cumberland.

The system was installed as a part of a performance contract between Johnson Controls and Cumberland, Maryland, to retrofit several city buildings and utility services - including replace water meters with wireless models. The project’s savings are a major driver behind the county's decision to enhance the network and the services provided to its residences.

“With this purchase, AllCoNet will be able to deliver wireless Internet access to hundreds of homes and small businesses in Cumberland that have no other way to access the digital domain at high speeds,” said Lee Fiedler, mayor of Cumberland. “Thanks to Wavion’s technology, Johnson Control’s service savings and CONXX’s network, we’re able to bring the economic and social benefits of wireless broadband to our citizens, visitors, municipal workers, and public safety personnel.”

CONXX’s homegrown network - a necessity after national telecommunication corporations refused to upgrade services for the mostly rural county - provides carrier-class communication services to public safety, government, education, commercial, and residential users throughout Allegany County.

“AllCoNet is a literal lifeline for this community,” said David Kartchner, president of CONXX. “When Cumberland wanted to add Wi-Fi to AllCoNet, we tested a dozen different outdoor access points before discovering the dramatic improvements offered by the Wavion WS410. We need about 12 Wavion spatially adaptive access points to cover one square mile of Cumberland. It would take three times as many APs from any other manufacturer to deliver that performance.”

Unlike other APs in the market, Wavion’s spatially adaptive AP is based on six radio transceivers and six antennas, and employs advanced digital beamforming technology. Based on a custom-designed ASIC optimized for the outdoors environment, Wavion’s technology significantly improves the link gain and quality to off-the-shelf, 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients - such as those found in nearly all recently manufactured notebook computers.

“We’re honored to help transform Cumberland’s municipal Wi-Fi deployment through the world’s first metro-scale access points with digital beamforming,” said Dr. Mati Wax, Wavion’s founder and CTO. “What Wavion delivers today already outperforms conventional APs, and we’re not done yet.”

About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with a new category of spatially adaptive access point. The company’s digital beamforming and SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne’am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.

About CONXX
Founded in 2004, CONXX has developed network architecture and infrastructure to help rural communities overcome both digital and economic divides. The CONXX Carrier Communication Platform™ combines carrier-grade telecommunications technology at the core with cost-effective Ethernet technology at the edge. The CONXX Carrier Communication Observer™ is a full-service, web-based network management and operating support system for municipal networks. The privately held company’s wired and wireless networks support multiple services and service providers. CONXX is headquartered in Cumberland, Maryland, and maintains a regional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit http://www.conxx.net.

Wavion Launches Company; Introduces New Category of Metro Wi-Fi Access Point

May 22, 2006

Wavion Launches Company; Introduces New Category of Metro Wi-Fi Access Point

MIMO-Based Spatially Adaptive Access Point Quadruples Coverage and Capacity of Current Metro Wi-Fi; Cuts Costs by Half and Vastly Improves User Experience

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22, 2006 - Wavion, a new provider of metro Wi-Fi access points (APs) and technology for service providers and infrastructure equipment vendors, today introduced a new category of wireless AP. Wavion's spatially adaptive access point is the first MIMO-based metro-scale AP, which resolves the performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing today's metro Wi-Fi deployments.

Backed by more than $22 million in funding from blue-chip investors such as Sequoia Capital and Elron Electronics Industries (NASDAQ: ELRN), Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market. Wavion delivers significantly improved user experiences through stronger connections at higher speeds, and better coverage with minimal dead spots. One spatially adaptive AP from Wavion does the work of three to four conventional APs, reducing service providers' capital and operating expenditures by 50 percent. Demonstrations and early access to the product for both infrastructure equipment vendors and service providers are available now in Silicon Valley.

"The introduction of Wavion's spatially adaptive access point represents tremendous opportunities for everyone in the metro Wi-Fi market," said Shmil Levy, a Sequoia partner and Wavion board member. "We are already seeing performance and coverage issues in metro Wi-Fi deployments based on current technology. Wavion's new spatially adaptive AP gives service providers and equipment vendors the ability to create successful metro Wi-Fi networks that are not only profitable, but scale to accommodate future market demands and applications."

First-generation metro Wi-Fi installations require dense deployments of conventional access points because their range, coverage and capacity are limited. Multi-hop mesh technology proposes to reduce the cost of these dense deployments by limiting the number of costly backhaul sites. Unfortunately, these mesh networks suffer from dramatic decreases in capacity as the number of hops increase. Because the APs in mesh networks use commoditized silicon originally designed for indoor deployments, the potential for improvement is limited. Demanding outdoor environments require custom-designed ASICs to meet the specific demands of metro-scale Wi-Fi.

"Metro-scale Wi-Fi deployments are about to face the same increased demands for throughput and reliability as we've seen in other WLAN applications, both residential and enterprise," said Craig Mathias, a principal with the wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group (Ashland, MA). "Wavion's use of MIMO technology with beamforming and space-division multiple-access (SDMA) will become a compelling approach to dealing with these requirements, with the additional benefits of improved price and performance."

"Metro Wi-Fi is an enormous opportunity for service providers, but deployments require new technology to deliver the capacity that supports multiple applications and a growing subscriber base," said Ran Eisenberg, Wavion's CEO. "We created a completely new category of wireless AP, designed from the ground up for outdoor Wi-Fi deployments."

Wavion's spatially adaptive AP delivers three key benefits:

Performance: Wavion's technology enables better coverage, higher bandwidth for mobile applications, scalable voice, and more reliable public safety applications. Applied to mesh networks, this technology also enables higher performance backhaul and fewer hops between nodes.
Penetration: Buildings, walls, radio interference, blocked line-of-sight, and other metro realities are better mitigated by Wavion's spatially adaptive AP because of significantly higher link gain and better multipath exploitation offered with its digital beamforming.
Profitability: A single Wavion spatially adaptive AP quadruples the coverage and capacity of current metro Wi-Fi technology, which reduces capital expenses of typical deployments by 50 percent and operating expenses by more than 50 percent. Moreover, providers can reduce their need to sell and support customer premises equipment.

Rather than use commoditized chipsets with single radio and diversity antennas, Wavion custom designed ASICs and embedded software to optimally leverage six antennas and six radio transceivers in a single AP. Wavion is the first company to successfully harness the power of MIMO, digital beamforming and SDMA technologies for standards-based metro Wi-Fi deployments.

"Beamforming and SDMA are the ideal technologies for the outdoor wireless environment. They also leverage the millions of existing Wi-Fi clients already in use around the world," said Dr. Mati Wax, Wavion's founder and CTO and one of the industry's early pioneers in multiple-antenna technology. "The key to making these technologies practical is a design tailored to the specific challenges of the outdoor environment, enabled by very tight integration at the silicon layer with the modem and the embedded software."

Interested parties can see a preview of Wavion's product at the upcoming Globalcomm 2006 conference and exhibition (booth #66074), taking place in Chicago June 5-8.

About Wavion
Wavion is delivering a new category of spatially adaptive access point to service providers and equipment vendors. The company's new generation of Wi-Fi technology is the first and only to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and Yoqne'am, Israel. To learn more, please visit Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.

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