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NTT West Deploys Broadband
Networks in Okinawa Using Alvarion's Market Leading BreezeACCESS VL
Other Topics:
Mobile WiMAX Signal Generator,
Mobile WiMAX Chipsets
BUSINESS WIRE
March 12, 2007
Japanese Incumbent Adopts VL to Answer Its Tier 1 Carrier Requirements
for Offering Broadband throughout Region
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd., the world’s leading provider of WiMAX
and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that NTT West
Corporation Okinawa Branch Group has successfully deployed the multiple
broadband networks in Okinawa using its market leading BreezeACCESS® VL
system. The deployment came after the request by the Okinawa Prefecture
to the NTT West Okinawa Branch Group.
Building on the ongoing and long term relationship between the two
parties, NTT WEST Okinawa Branch Group adopted the VL at 4.9 GHz to
answer its Tier 1 carrier requirements for offering wireless broadband
services and fast Internet access to residences and municipalities on
the Okinawa islands of Tokashiki, Zamami and Aka. |
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"Okinawa's hundreds of
hilly and spread out islands make using wired infrastructure for
broadband extremely expensive and impractical, so instead we turned to
Alvarion’s easy to install BreezeACCESS VL," said leader of NTT West
Okinawa Branch Group. "After long and comprehensive field trials in
severe weather conditions including typhoons, we verified that the VL is
the most reliable and cost effective broadband system available today.
The VL and Alvarion's flexibility, dedication and strict timetable have
enabled us to overcome the digital divide throughout our region, and we
look forward to expanding broadband availability across Okinawa using
the VL."
BreezeACCESS VL’s advanced features such as NLOS operation resulting
from long experience of OFDM technology implementation, extended reach
of more than 30 kilometers, high capacity of up to 54 Mbps, encryption,
and quality of service (QoS), enable carriers, mobile operators, ISPs,
enterprises and other service providers to offer triple play services to
both business and residential subscribers. Operating in the 5 GHz bands,
VL supports great flexibility in frequency planning with its 20 MHz
channel spacing, automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) and built-in
spectrum analyzer, which monitors and avoids noise on any given channel.
The BreezeACCESS VL is supported by AlvariSTAR™, a comprehensive network
management solution for managing broadband wireless and WiMAX networks
and related equipment.
"Alvarion, supplying broadband wireless systems to one of the largest
incumbent carriers in the world to bring broadband throughout their
region, is testament to the quality of our products and people," said
Tzvika Friedman president and CEO of Alvarion. "The BreezeACCESS VL is
the best solution for Okinawa where wire line networks are too costly to
deploy for broadband. And the success of this milestone project in
Okinawa is a catalyst for additional and larger deployment projects in
Okinawa and throughout Japan, which will further strengthen our
relationship with NTT West Group."
About NTT West-Okinawa Corporation
NTT West-Okinawa Corporation is part of NTT West Group Companies, which
is part of NTT Group the incumbent operator in Japan. NTT West provides
Regional Telecommunication Services in the west area of Japan. Such
Telecommunication services include: Telephone services, Integrated
Digital services, Leased Line service and so on. For more information
visit NTT West website: www.ntt-west.co.jp/index_e2.html
About Alvarion
With more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion (www.alvarion.com)
is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless broadband network
solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and
productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other
services.
Leading the market with the most widely deployed WiMAX system in the
world, Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with 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 personal mobile
broadband, 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.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and
delivering innovations for over 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 Open WiMAX solutions.
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: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as
anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the
expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other
things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales,
marketing or manufacturing objectives; 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 inability to establish and
maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and
technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time in the
Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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