Alvarion Deploys First WiMAX
Networks Across India for Bharti Airtel
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Alvarion Ltd.
June 19, 2006
BreezeMAX™ 3300 Now Providing Broadband
Services in 8 Indian Cities
New Delhi, -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider
of wireless broadband solutions along with Siemens Communications, a
global supplier of state-of-the art solutions in information and
communications, today announced that Bharti Airtel, India’s leading
private telecom carrier, is using their integrated WiMAX solution - the
BreezeMAX 3300 system - to build WiMAX networks across India.
With deployments currently in 8 cities, Bharti Airtel is using WiMAX to
augment its current broadband, fixed and cellular network infrastructure
to quickly offer affordable broadband data services to SME (small and
medium enterprises) customers in new markets and has plans to expand
this network to more cities throughout India. 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.
"Bharti is one of several WiMAX customers we have in APAC, a vast market
we defined long ago as having great potential for WiMAX given the
increasing need for broadband and the general lack of infrastructure
there," said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "Leveraging
our widely deployed BreezeMAX system and our deep technical
capabilities, we were able to quickly and cost-effectively offer a WiMAX
product in the spectrum available to help Indian carriers close the
digital divide. This ability along with our many local partnerships and
global OEM partners, such as Siemens, enables us to address WiMAX demand
anywhere and do it with a market leading product.”
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 150 successful
installations in more than 30 countries worldwide.
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel is one of India's leading private sector provider of
telecommunications services with an aggregate of 14.42 million customers
as of end of August '05, consisting of approximately 13.41 million
mobile customers. The company is the only operator to provide mobile
services in all the 23 circles in India. The company also provides
telephone services and Internet access over DSL in 15 circles. The
company complements its mobile, broadband & telephone services with
national and international long distance services. The company also has
a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the
submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore. The company provides
reliable end-to-end data and enterprise services to the corporate
customers by leveraging its nationwide fiber optic backbone, last mile
connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, VSATs, ISP and
international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing station.
For more information, visit http://www.bhartiairtel.in
About Siemens Communications
The Siemens Communications Group is one of the largest players in the
global telecommunications industry. The company offers a full-line
portfolio of innovative solutions for voice and data communication. Its
comprehensive offerings range from devices right through to complex
network infrastructures and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise
networks. It is the largest group within the Siemens organization and
operates in more than 160 countries around the world. In fiscal 2005
(September 30), its 54,500-strong workforce posted sales of over 13
billion euros. For more about Siemens Communications visit: http://www.siemens.com/communications
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 also supplies solutions to extend coverage of GSM
and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and other hard to serve
areas.
Leading the WiMAX market with the most widely deployed WiMAX system in
the world, Alvarion has the most extensive networks 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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