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WIFI3 TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WIN BRINGS EION'S SEAMLESS LTE-WIFI SINGLE-CELL ROAMING

July 12 2016 / TheNewswire / Ottawa, Canada & San Jose, California - Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V), the manufacturer of high-density WiFi3™ - next generation WiFi technology, is pleased to announce today the company has partnered with EION Wireless. The partnership is a milestone win for Edgewater Wireless with the development of a high capacity EION small cell solution with integrated multi-channel WiFi from Edgewater Wireless.EION is developing the product in partnership with Edgewater Wireless to deliver ubiquitous coverage using both LTE and WiFi. The product is the first RF agnostic solution for LTE + WiFi available on the market today.

The product also boasts the lowest overall deployment cost (CAPEX & OPEX for a full integrated product versus a layered solution of LTE with WiFi as an add-on component.

The integrated solution will also leverage WiFi3™’s wideband RF front end and patented interference mitigation technology to deliver the most channel density and 200% the coverage of a legacy LTE.

Orders are now being accepted for the fully integrated LTE + WiFi3™ product which will ship in September 2016.

“Working closely with the team at EION, Edgewater Wireless went through an extensive process of technical design and review of our next generation high density WiFi technology to ensure optimal performance for EION’s Small Cell customers and deployments.” said Andrew Skafel, President & CEO of Edgewater Wireless “The Small Cell industry is very hot right now and gaining momentum. This partnership is a win-win for both our companies and will help strengthen our collective wireless products and solutions to a broad range of customers.”

“Our customers have been asking for a solution that offered both LTE and WiFi and delivers a 360-degree solution to their coverage and capacity requirements.” said Dr. Kalai Kalaichelvan, President & CEO of EION Inc.” The latest innovation – LTE + WiFi3 from EION will solve the capacity crunch that so many of our customers are being challenged with. Particularly in high density deployments where the already saturated unlicensed WiFi spectrum impairs traditional WiFI performance and where WiFi3™ outperforms the competition.”

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The Small Cell industry is forecast for 43% annual growth according to the latest report from ABI Research. And projected to be worth $3.92 Billion by 2020 according to Markets and Markets. Network infrastructure is moving quickly away from coverage-centric to a more agile capacity-focused network deployment model to effectively add capacity in high-density locations. WiFi3™ integrated with EION’s small cell solutions will offer the highest capacity Small Cell + WiFi product available in the market today.