For Immediate Release: April 26, 2006
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EDX WIRELESS CREATES STRATEGIC VENDOR PARTNER PROGRAM - APERTO NETWORKS JOINS AS FIRST PARTICIPANT

The EDX Wireless and Aperto Networks Partnership combines the market-leading EDX® SignalPro® network planning tool with the PacketMAX™ product family of base stations and subscriber units to provide a complete carrier-class infrastructure solution for WiMAX network operators and system integrators.

Eugene, OR, April 26, 2006 - EDX Wireless unveiled its new Vendor Partner Program, and announced Aperto Networks as its first strategic partner. Aperto, a WiMAX industry leader, and one of the first companies to offer WiMAX Forum Certified™ equipment through their PacketMAX™ systems, is exclusively recommending EDX® SignalPro® with the Network Design Module for the design, deployment, and optimization of PacketMAX WiMAX networks.

The EDX Vendor Partner Program, which includes co-marketing, training, and product integration, strengthens Aperto’s relationships with its customers by enhancing Aperto’s in-house network-planning services. Under the relationship, Aperto will broaden its use of SignalPro for its in-house network planning, and continue to endorse its use by network planning professionals and WiMAX carriers.

"Our partnership with EDX Wireless is the latest in a series of WiMAX ecosystem announcements," said Manish Gupta, vice president of marketing and alliances for Aperto Networks. "These relationships showcase Aperto’s leadership within the WiMAX ecosystem and are a growing testament to its comprehensive approach for providing products, tools and support to its large customer base globally."

"We are enthusiastic with the inclusion of Aperto in our Vendor Partner Program. This announcement portends the powerful suite of solutions that will be delivered to our mutual customers through the integration of EDX SignalPro® with Aperto’s PacketMAX™ system." said EDX Wireless’ CEO Paul Rathgeb.

Aperto engineers have been using EDX’s SignalPro tool for wireless network planning purposes in conjunction with Aperto Networks’ WiMAX class PacketWAVE™ equipment and will now be using the equipment in conjunction with the rollout of Aperto’s PacketMAX™ enabled networks.

With Aperto system parameters loaded into SignalPro, the tool is an intuitive and accurate predictor of how PacketWAVE and PacketMAX networks will perform in various RF conditions.

The EDX Vendor Partner Program is a new program offered by EDX Wireless. The intent of the program is to join together with leading technology innovators in order to provide network operators and carriers with more integrated solutions for their network infrastructure designs. By integrating the power of EDX’s carrier-class RF engineering tools alongside network equipment design and deployment, carriers can build higher quality networks, thereby reducing their infrastructure costs and increasing their subscriber satisfaction.

ABOUT EDX Wireless LLC

EDX network design tools are some of the most widely-used engineering software products for designing wireless communications networks, including wireless broadband, WiFi, public safety, cellular/PCS, and mobile radio of all types. This mature suite of tools is the result of over 20 years of development effort, including the pioneering of some of the most important innovations in propagation modeling such as ray–tracing and other site-specific physical modeling techniques. These highly accurate propagation and planning tools have been used in more than 55 countries worldwide, for the successful design and deployment of wireless networks. www.edx.com

ABOUT Aperto Networks

Aperto Networks helps leading service providers deliver affordable wireless voice and broadband profitably by building the world’s most advanced WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Aperto fundamentally changes the economics of delivering voice and broadband services through IP-rich, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks, allowing carriers to offer a wider variety of services to more customers using less equipment. Its carrier-class WiMAX technology offers industry-leading subscriber density, quality of service, ease of use and reliability. Aperto is a founding board member of the WiMAX Forum as well as a founder and lead contributor to IEEE 802.16 and the ETSI-BRAN standards. Serving more than 200 customers in 65 countries, Aperto Networks is based in Milpitas, California. For more information on Aperto Networks, go to www.apertonet.com.

Note to Editors, SignalPro is a registered trademark of EDX.

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