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Chicago Area Communities Deploy
Regionwide Alvarion Mobile Broadband Network to Fight Crime, Fire
Alvarion
May 17, 2006
BreezeACCESS® 900 Network Uses
Only 14 Base Stations to Provide Full Coverage Across Seven Cities
Mountain View, California, -- Alvarion, (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s
leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that six Chicago area communities have
deployed a regional mobile broadband network using its BreezeACCESS 900
system to support fixed and mobile public safety applications,
specifically to help crime and fire fighting efforts. Using only
fourteen base stations to cover the entire area, along with the
associated mobile terminals installed in the public safety vehicles, the
network was designed and deployed by Alvarion partner PCS Technologies
in the Chicago area including the cities of Hodgkins, North Riverside,
Riverside, Lyons, Countryside, McCook, and the Pleasantview Fire
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“This deployment is an ideal prototype of suburban communities
addressing their common public safety interests with a regional
broadband network,” commented John Feldman, vice president and general
manager of PCS Technologies. “The BreezeACCESS 900 leverages Alvarion’s
deep understanding of the mobile public safety market going back to 2000
enabling coverage of the entire region for a fraction of the cost of
comparable mesh solutions. Sharing infrastructure and access to some
common servers and databases generates many economies for the
communities, while giving each city the ability to tailor the specific
information available to their public safety officials and access to
unique servers city-by-city.”
Connecting approximately 50 police cars and 15 fire vehicles, the
network is used for dispatch functions, while enabling mobile access to
central databases such as the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records.
Also providing remote access to several video surveillance cameras to
monitor and protect public structures, such as the local water treatment
plant and city government buildings, network deployment began last year
and has grown incrementally to include additional local jurisdictions.
“Being adjacent to Chicago has its advantages, but it also means we need
big city policing on a small city budget," noted Mark Wilkans,
lieutenant of the Hodgkins Police Department and chair of the technical
subcommittee of the Area-wide Law Enforcement Radio Terminal System
(ALERTS) users group, a statewide body focused on officer use of mobile
technologies. “The total price of a new system is as important as its
effectiveness and with Alvarion, the mobile broadband network has proven
to be equally effective in crime fighting and cost. Adding the fact that
the network crosses multiple cities and departments—including both fire
and police—gives us a terrific advantage since all units responding to
joint assistance emergencies have common access, even outside their home
jurisdiction.”
A cost-effective alternative to a mesh network requiring less than
one-tenth the infrastructure, BreezeACCESS 900 offers secure, robust and
reliable mobile access covering both metro and rural areas and
implements advanced features for high-performance seamless roaming, even
at freeway speeds. With the ability to integrate Wi-Fi access into the
vehicle-mounted subscriber unit, BreezeACCESS 900 permits departments to
leverage the low cost and mass market availability of Wi-Fi enabled
devices within a 300 foot zone around each vehicle. BreezeACCESS 900
also integrates seamlessly with other BreezeACCESS systems, including
BreezeACCESS 4900, enabling carrier-class, FIPS 197 secure, licensed
backhaul of
BreezeACCESS 900 cells.
“With increasing demand for Homeland Security and other public safety
applications, broadband at vehicular speeds, especially in
non-line-of-sight conditions, is becoming a basic requirement for cities
and so they are beginning to adopt it everywhere," said Amir Rosenzweig,
president of Alvarion, Inc. "Our BreezeACCESS 900 is key in addressing
this market by delivering the needed capacity, coverage, performance and
overall critical robustness at a fraction of the cost of other systems.”
Supporting both fixed and mobile subscribers, BreezeACCESS 900 is an
effective, real-time communications system that provides complete
coverage even in areas with many obstructions. Whether connecting
emergency vehicles to the public safety network or residential users in
dense foliage areas, BreezeACCESS 900 is the ideal solution due to its
frequency customization and fast, programmable frequency hopping
capabilities.
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 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 www.alvarion.com
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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
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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
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as well as the in ability to establish and maintain relationships with
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risks detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and
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