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Alvarion Municipal Network in
USA Wins Another Prestigious Global Award For Mobile Public Safety
Alvarion Ltd.
May 24, 2006
Scottsburg, Indiana Network is Lifeline for the Local Economy, Model
for Alvarion's Upcoming Mobile Broadband Solutions
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that a municipal wireless network in the city
of Scottsburg, Indiana, USA, was recognized as the ‘Best Municipal
Wireless Deployment’ at the prestigious Wireless Broadband Innovation
Awards ceremony, held in London on May 17th. Built using Alvarion’s
mobile public safety suite with BreezeACCESS® products, the Scottsburg
network beat out strong global competition from several other networks
that were finalists for the award. |
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The role of the network as a lifeline for Scottsburg’s economy was cited
as one of the reasons for the award. The Wireless Broadband Innovation
Awards (www.wbiaward.com) are hotly contested independent awards for
users and service providers of wireless broadband worldwide. The awards
recognize leadership, innovation and excellence in wireless broadband
development and deployment.
This marks the second time that the Scottsburg network has been given an
award. Earlier this year, The Wireless Internet Institute (www.W2i.org)
recognized Scottsburg as the best “Local Municipal Initiative.” Both
awards acknowledge the crucial role that wireless broadband played in
saving the community from population drain and eventual economic
hardship. And while local businesses, home workers, and telecommuters
all needed affordable broadband for their work, the incumbent cable and
phone companies in town refused to offer broadband there due to the
small size of the town (population 6,000) and cost.
“Scottsburg didn't wake up one morning and say ‘we want to be in the
broadband business,’” said Mayor Bill Graham. “We were in crisis mode;
businesses were going to leave our community because they didn’t have
broadband. Alvarion’s technology helped us help ourselves when other
telecom companies just weren’t interested.”
Built by Alvarion solution partner, Advanced Computer Connections of
Norwalk, Ohio, the network employs several of Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS
products including the BreezeACCESS VL, BreezeACCESS 900, and
BreezeACCESS Mobile SU-M for mobile public safety applications. With
complete coverage citywide, broadband is now available to residents,
businesses, schools, and government offices, while also supporting
mobile broadband for the city police department. The mobile application
is especially appealing, since it gives officers the ability to access
important crime databases and send and receive reports and updates, all
while remaining in the field.
At a total cost of only $385,000 including all systems and software, the
network is much more capital cost efficient than the $6 million
necessary for Scottsburg to build its own fiber optic network. Moreover,
building a fiber network causes major civic disruptions over several
years, while the Alvarion network was up and running in just four
months.
“Scottsburg was successful in providing broadband to all its residents
and businesses—and continues to rack up awards for it—because city
leaders there made their own decisions about the best way to do
broadband instead of just following technology fashions,” commented Amir
Rosenzweig, president of Alvarion, Inc. “The result is a network using
Alvarion’s market leading technology that is delivering high value
across the entire community for a fraction of the cost of fiber or other
wireless strategies. The true award for Alvarion, however, is having a
happy customer with a network that serves its users' critical needs - as
well being a model network for our upcoming mobile broadband solutions."
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 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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incorporated by reference in any filing made by Alvarion with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press release will be a
part of. |
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