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Alvarion's
BreezeMAX Now Enables Primary Voice Services Over WiMAX
Other Topics: WiMAX Multi-Gigabit,
WiMAX Portable Multimedia
Alvarion Ltd.
October 30, 2006
Ability to Leverage Existing TDM
Infrastructure Means Carriers Can Adopt WiMAX as Basic Network Strategy;
African Operators Already Building Networks
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced the availability of primary voice services
over WiMAX enabled by the latest edition of BreezeMAX, Alvarion’s
award-winning and market leading WiMAX Certified™ system. This ability
to deliver primary voice services using existing TDM infrastructure, in
addition to its broadband service capabilities, means incumbent (ILECs)
and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) can adopt WiMAX as their
basic network strategy. As the first commercial WiMAX system to support
V5.2 interfaces, coupled with its existing VoIP capabilities, BreezeMAX
can now interface directly with both legacy and next generation voice
networks according to carrier needs. |
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Over the past few months,
the primary voice services of BreezeMAX have been tested with carriers
in Africa and South America, and approved as interoperable with various
vendors’ Class 5 switches. As a result of these trials, two operators in
Africa are today leveraging their TDM switches by deploying this
BreezeMAX voice and data solution. In addition, operators in Latin
America are evaluating the solution for deployment in urban areas to
cover unserved areas.
“Alternative and incumbent carriers can now use WiMAX to open their
networks to major technology evolution in terms of applications,” said
Rudy Leser, Alvarion's corporate vice president of strategy and
marketing. “By adopting WiMAX as their network strategy, carriers will
enjoy 4G applications as well as significant capital and operating costs
savings. We are seeing strong demand for this type of open
infrastructure solution where new services can be made available while
moving to services such as voice over IP.”
Primary voice over WiMAX capability is of particular interest to
innovative challengers looking to provide voice services, along with
broadband, to areas with little or no existing telecom infrastructure.
Alvarion voice and broadband data WiMAX networks can be built quickly
and without heavy investments in a full scale VoIP network as it can be
deployed using the existing TDM infrastructure capacity of V5.2 legacy
switches.
In addition, the BreezeMAX integrated voice CPE includes one or two
voice lines and battery backup which works to benefit VoIP network
operators with its fast and seamless integration for residential and
SOHO market segment. Commercially available in an outdoor version today,
the new CPE will be available as an indoor, self-install version in Q2
2007.
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is
the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless network solutions
enabling personal broadband services to improve lifestyles and
productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other
applications. Providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network
operators, the company also supplies solutions to extend coverage of GSM
networks to developing countries and other hard to serve areas.
Leading the WiMAX market with the most widely deployed WiMAX system in
the world, Alvarion has the most extensive networks deployments and
proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of
frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s
products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband
access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station
feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public
safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works with
several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to support
its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile challenges.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and
delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology
developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging
its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and
experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work
in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of
standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading
the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.
For more information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at
www.alvarion.com
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