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Aircel
Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX(TM) to Deploy WiMAX Networks across Northern
and Eastern India
Other Topics: WiMAX Licenses,
Motorola WiMAX Solutions,
WiMAX/Wi-Fi Solution
Alvarion Ltd.
December 27, 2006
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world's leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced that Aircel
Business Solutions (ABS), a subsidiary of leading Indian cellular
service provider Aircel, is expanding its current network and planning
to use BreezeMAX 3300 to deploy WiMAX networks across 50 cities in
northern and eastern India. |
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Aircel currently has
deployments in eight cities and is using BreezeMAX to overlay and expand
its current broadband and cellular network infrastructure to quickly
offer affordable broadband data services to small and medium enterprise
(SME) customers. Alvarion's BreezeMAX 3300 is an extension of its market
leading WiMAX platform operating in 3.3GHz, the frequency band
specifically licensed for WiMAX services in India.
"We conducted extensive technological, commercial and operational
research before selecting Alvarion's BreezeMAX as the best WiMAX system
for providing broadband services," said Mr. Jagdish Kini, Group Chief
Executive Officer, Aircel. "We have pioneered India's wireless
revolution by offering WiMAX along with a host of innovative enterprise
services using BreezeMAX's built-in support for service level agreements
(SLAs). We look forward to continuing to work with Alvarion as we expand
our WiMAX offerings across India."
BreezeMAX is Alvarion's award-winning WiMAX Certified(TM) platform
designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and
uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS)
functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and
quality of service (QoS) enabling carriers to offer triple play
broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.
"Aircel is one of several WiMAX customers we have in APAC, a region
identified long ago as having great potential for WiMAX due to its
insatiable demand for broadband and general lack of infrastructure,"
said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "Leveraging our
widely deployed BreezeMAX system and deep technical capabilities, we
were able to quickly and cost-effectively offer a WiMAX product in the
specific spectrum available in India. We are very excited to help close
the digital divide in such a large and important emerging market."
Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed
in over 200 installations in more than 80 countries around the world.
About Aircel
Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), a part of Aircel, is headquartered in
Chennai, India and is an ISO 9000 certified company. ABS is a registered
member of WiMAX forum - both in the Indian and International Chapters.
ABS' product range includes a host of cutting-edge enterprise solutions
such as Multi Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS
VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Managed Video Services on
wireless platform including WiMAX.
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 supplies solutions in both developed and
developing countries.
Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive
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(TM) 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
This press release contains forward -looking statements within the
meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the current
expectations or beliefs of Alvarion's management and are subject to a
number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in the forward -looking
statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements: inability to further identify, develop and achieve success
for new products, services and technologies; increased competition and
its effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues;
as well as the in ability to establish and maintain relationships with
commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers and other
risks detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Information set forth in this press release pertaining to third parties
has not been independently verified by Alvarion and is based solely on
publicly available information or on information provided to Alvarion by
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part of. |
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