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African Broadband provider
Gulfsat Madagascar Expands Network With Alvarion’s WiMAX system
Other Topics: WiMAX Leadership,
WiMAX Forum Certified
Alvarion Ltd.
January 24, 2006
BreezeMAX™ To Be Used To Target
Residential Subscribers in Capital City
Tel-Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that African broadband provider, Gulfsat
Madagascar, will expand its current network using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX,
its award winning WiMAX system. Since 2003, Gulfsat has been providing
broadband services to corporate subscribers using Alvarion’s
BreezeACCESS® OFDM system operating in 3.5 GHz. The addition of the
BreezeMAX network, also operating at 3.5 GHz, is part of the operator’s
strategy to target residential subscribers with greater coverage and
increased capacity. As part of the deployment, Gulfsat plans to use
Alvarion’s BreezeMAX PRO customer premise equipment (CPE) that uses the
Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip.
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“We are excited to be the first service provider to bring WiMAX to
Madagascar,” said Mr. Mohib Pirbay, CEO of Gulfsat Madagascar.
“Initially, this network will offer broadband services to residential
subscribers in the capital city of Antananarivo, adding to our current
base of corporate customers. We look forward to accelerating growth in
this market segment with Alvarion in the future.”
BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s WiMAX 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) to enable
carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of
subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004,
BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 140 installations in
more than 30 countries around the world.
“We are pleased that Gulfsat Madagascar has again selected Alvarion for
its network needs joining many other innovative carriers in Africa and
elsewhere in deploying the most popular WiMAX system in the world,”
commented Tzvika Friedman, CEO and president of Alvarion. “And with the
BreezeMAX PRO CPE containing the Intel chip, it’s another milestone
toward the widespread adoption of WiMAX standard products. This network
highlights Alvarion’s unmatched ability to combine WiMAX products,
professional services, and our global reach to deploy WiMAX networks in
any location worldwide.”
About Gulfsat Madagascar
Gulfsat Madagascar is a leading provider of wireless Internet services
as well as managed Infocom solutions based on the wireless and VSAT
communication in Madagascar. Gulfsat Madagascar offers comprehensive,
secure and integrated solutions for enterprises/SOHO users to enable
them to have the best quality Internet services to run their business
critical IT applications. While enterprises focus on their core
competencies, Gulfsat Madagascar provides them with a unique opportunity
to have a single point solution for some of their critical & complex
requirements. Specific solutions include Internet / Intranet services,
hosting of web/e-mail/FTP servers, a completely managed firewall
solution, all terrain connectivity and management of critical IT
resources. The operative words for all solutions being Anywhere,
Anytime, Available …
Gulfsat Madagascar has a strong technical team of 80 technical staff
providing industry best support with adaptation of the best service
practices which are in line with ISO support policies and practices with
its vast support coverage in Madagascar. Gulfsat Madagascar has unique
capability of running and fine tuning almost every application being
used of variety of customers as business communication to provide the
best performance over the wireless media including one of the major
banking establishment providing ONLINE banking services using Gulfsat
Madagascar’s Alvarion based WiMAX product lines. Gulfsat Madagscar is
the first service provider in the region rolling out the WiMAX based
Internet services with already many clients availing these services for
the high speed internet connectivity which allows customers to even get
up to 3 Mbps of download.
For more information, please visit our web site: www.gulfsat.mg or
contact us at: +261 20 22 030 97 or info@gulfsat.mg
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 140 countries, Alvarion is
the worldwide leader in wireless broadband, providing systems to
carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending
coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and
other hard to serve areas.
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™ 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
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