EION Wireless Receives Internet Telephony's 2009 WiMAX Distinction Award

Libra MAX Family Honored for Exceptional WiMAX Solutions

OTTAWA, Canada - May 13, 2009 - EION Wireless today announced its Libra MAX WiMAX family of Base Station and Subscriber Stations products as a recipient of the 2009 WiMAX Distinction Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Internet Telephony magazine, USA.

Libra MAX is a flexible WiMAX product family, with a wide array of deployment options, configurations and topologies. It interoperates with WiMax standard based systems developed by other vendors. Libra MAX offers a flexible and scalable approach to system deployment. Customers can choose among a range of base station configurations from entry level single-sector to flexible multi-sector base stations and have a selection of intelligent subscriber station options to allow the delivery of a variety of corporate services and functional requirements.

"Congratulations to EION Wireless for being named a winner of the 2009 WiMAX Distinction Award for their accomplishments in the advancement of WiMAX solutions," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Internet Telephony. "Libra MAX has proven it has made advancements in the bourgeoning WiMAX marketplace while providing its customers with solutions to help grow their businesses."

"The flexibility of WiMAX based radios, such as the Libra MAX product family, enable small and medium service providers to successfully provide broadband access in a timely and efficient manner to their customers today. Operators can begin a deployment with one or two outdoor base stations and quickly scale as the customer base grows," said Emmy Johnson, Sky Light Research. "In addition, for many service providers in developing telecommunication markets, WiMAX based networks are much faster to deploy and often times reach profitability much quicker than those using traditional fiber or copper infrastructures."

The new MAX-LT and MAX-RBS WiMAX Base Station products operating in the 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 GHz WiMAX spectrum, and the carrier class Libra MAX-HD chassis based system offers service providers embedded IP intelligence capable of delivering unique recurring monthly revenue streams and superior security monitoring capabilities for law enforcement agencies and private enterprise customers and service providers.

"EION is pleased to be presented with this prominent award for our Libra MAX WiMAX product family in recognition of the technological and commercial successes of the product." stated EION Wireless CEO Kalai Kalaichelvan. "We believe our Libra MAX family is the most flexible system of WiMAX products on the market today. Our unique combination of base stations, rapid backhaul options and subscriber stations allow operators to deploy WiMAX services throughout challenging geographies."

The Second Annual Internet Telephony WiMAX Distinction Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of this prestigious award. The most innovative WiMAX products and services were selected as recipients of this year's award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2009 WiMAX Distinction Award winners are featured in the June 2009 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY, itmag.com, and on TMCnet's 4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com.