WiMAX Companies Like Airspan, On Their Marks, Ready To Go; Looking to Leverage WiMAX Certification for Overall Industry Growth

In August, Airspan Networks (Nasdaq:AIRN), with Aperto Networks,Proxim, Sequans and Wavesat, delivered their respective WiMAXsolutions to Cetecom Labs, in Malaga, Spain, for conformance andinteroperability testing. This critical exercise ensures the stabilityof the test suite and readiness of the various solutions for formalconformance and radio testing. With this essential step completed,formal conformance and interoperability testing will begin later thismonth.

The products that pass both protocol and radio conformance, theninteroperability testing, will be tagged "WiMAX Forum Certified(TM)"for IEEE 802.16-2004. More importantly, certification will enablethese companies to begin "risk-free" deployment of their newlycertified products.

"The imminent WiMAX certification for the first wave of WiMAXproducts is an important achievement for the WiMAX industry," saidAdlane Fellah, Senior Analyst with Maravedis, adding: "Those WiMAXvendors who have plenty of WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) products readyfor shipment will be rewarded with a first-to-market advantage."

The new, standards-based WiMAX products, built predominantly withoff-the-shelf components, are expected to lower the cost of vendorequipment to service providers, ultimately serving as a catalyst toignite the global market demand for WiMAX solutions.

"The certification and rollout of the first WiMAX ForumCertified(TM) products will capture the attention of existing andsoon-to-be wireless broadband operators and service providers," saidLindsay Schroth, Yankee Group senior analyst. "This milestone islikely to help accelerate the buying decisions of a number offence-sitters."

Airspan's AS.MAX product family has been designed for indoor,self-installable deployment of customer premises equipment, anessential requirement of operators for the economic rollout ofbroadband wireless. The EasyST is the first product of its type tooffer fully indoor plug-and-play WiMAX services. The product familywill be commercially available in the third quarter 2005. The productswill give businesses and consumers uninterrupted access to a richvariety of high bandwidth applications such as networked gaming,streamed digital music, TV, videoconferencing, and other real-timeservices at speeds faster than today's 3G networks. Fixed WiMAX isexpected to deliver end-user data rates greater than 1 Mbps - 3 to 5 times faster than today's commercial 3G networks.

About Airspan Networks Inc.

Airspan Networks provides fixed and wireless voice and datasystems and solutions, including Voice Over IP (VoIP). Its wirelessproducts serve operators around the world in both licensed andunlicensed frequency bands between 700 MHz and 6 GHz, including bothPCS and 3.5 GHz international bands. Airspan has a strong wirelessproduct roadmap that includes offerings compliant with the new WiMAX802.16-2004 standard, and software upgradeability to 802.16e from thetime the WiMAX products are introduced. Airspan is on the Board and afounder member of the WiMAX Forum. The Company has deployments withmore than 300 operators in more than 95 countries. Airspan's wirelesssystems are based on radio technology that delivers excellent areacoverage, high security and resistance to fading. These systems can bedeployed rapidly and cost effectively, providing an attractivealternative to traditional wired communications networks. Airspan'snew iTone VoIP system is a carrier class, turnkey solution thatprovides carriers with Class 4, Class 5 and IP-Centrex solutions andhas a Softswitch and Gateways supporting SIP/H323 and SIP. i-Tone'sdesign provides customers; carriers, next-generation telcos, cellularproviders and ITSP with a wide range of solutions with the bestprice/performance system for IP telephony. Airspan also offers radioplanning, network installation, integration, training and supportservices to facilitate the deployment and operation of its systems.Airspan is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida with its mainoperations center in Uxbridge, United Kingdom.

More information on Airspan can be found at http://www.airspan.com

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