[May 26, 2010]

Airvana Named Finalist in Four 2010 Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards Categories

Airvana today announced that the company has been shortlisted in four categories in the 2010 Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards. Airvana (News - Alert) has been recognized for Application Concept, Enabling Technology, Contribution to Standards, and Individual Contributions to the Femto Forum. The Femto Forum Femtocell (News - Alert) Industry Awards are designed to honor outstanding contributions to the industry during 2009. Winners will be announced at the Femtocells World Summit in London on Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

Once again the judges have been impressed by the standard of entries, and by the range of organizations taking part. Simon Saunders (News - Alert), Chairman of the Femto Forum said "The Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards provide a fascinating summary of activity in our industry over the past 12 months, and the judges commented on the maturity of the industry reflected in the entries. They have a challenging job ahead of them in choose a single winner for each category. We congratulate Airvana and extend our thanks to all those who participated."

Airvana has been selected as a finalist for the following awards:

Appliction Concept - The Airvana Femto Family Tablet: The Family Tablet is a femtocell-enabled personal portal for all family communications, media control, and sharing. From accessing family calendars and sharing photos taken on mobile phones, to leaving text messages for automatic delivery when family members arrive home, the Femto Family Tablet links home and mobile life. The femtocell keeps family members always attached to their family tablet and to their media at home, and when they are away from home via a miniaturized, remote version of the tablet running on their mobile handset.

Enabling Technology - UMTS Femtocell Beacon: A fundamental challenge of femtocell radio technology has been ensuring that handsets "camp" onto their home femtocell-even when they are receiving an adequate signal from the nearest macro cell-to ensure the best possible user experience and correct application of femtozone tariffs. Previous approaches to this problem have resulted in adverse impacts such as handset battery drain. Airvana's UMTS pilot beacon is an innovative new approach that ensures proper handset-to-femtocell connections without adverse impacts to the handset or the macro cell network.

Contribution to Standards - Airvana Standards Team led by Doug Knisely, vice president of technology: Airvana's standards team, led by technology vice president Doug Knisely, has played a leading role in advancing 3GPP and 3GPP2 femtocell standards. In 3GPP, Airvana was an early proponent of Iu-based architectures, helping the industry coalesce around the Iuh standard. The team also played an active role in the adoption IPsec/IKEv2 security protocols. In 3GPP2, Airvana initiated and led activities to define the CDMA2000 femtocell architecture, including SIP/IMS-based 1x circuit services architecture, packet data architecture, security framework, the foundations of femtozone services and femtocell management. These efforts have helped the industry define and ratify femtocell standards in record time.

Individual contribution to Femto Forum (News - Alert) activities - Josh Adelson, director of product marketing, and Fabio Chiussi, VP of technology are being nominated for individual contributions within the Femto Forum's Marketing Working Group and Services Special Interest Group, respectively.

About Airvana

Airvana helps operators transform the mobile experience for users worldwide. The company's high-performance technology and products, from comprehensive 3G femtocell solutions based on its HubBub™ CDMA and UMTS femtocells, to core mobile broadband network infrastructure, enable operators to deliver compelling broadband services to mobile subscribers, wherever they are. Airvana's products are deployed in 70 commercial networks on six continents. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., USA, with offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.airvana.com.

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