Worldwide Networks

Europe, Middle East and Africa
In Europe, Airspan’s position has been strengthened by the addition our ASWipLL, AS4020 and AS4030 products. The interest in our AS.MAX product portfolio that we are introducing at CeBIT 2005 in Hanover, is overwhelming. ASWipLL has become an important building block for may operator, especially in Finland and Ireland, were the last mile ADSL connections has been too difficult to implement over copper. We have today over 10.000 BWA lines deployed in Europe over ASWipLL. In Central and Easter Europe, AS4020 continues to be very successful, and we have during 2004 deployed very large networks, with high speed data and toll quality voice, in Russia, Poland and Serbia.

The African & Middle East has seen several major network expansion projects during 2004, especially with the increased data capabilities that AS4020 offers. AS4020 offers a perfect solution to address the growing market demand for premium services, especially in many of the metropolitan areas in Africa. We have seen this expansion in Botswana, Angola, the Gambia and Nigeria during 2004. ASWipLL and AS4030 is being deployed by many new operators throughout Africa providing high speed data access and backhaul capabilities. During 2004 we have also concentrated our African Sales and Support to our office in South Africa and from there formed a joint venture company, called AirspanNet.