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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

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