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WiMAX Forum Certification |
Alvarion's BreezeMAX™ Achieves
WiMAX Forum™ Certification
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Alvarion Ltd.
June 21, 2006
Most Deployed WiMAX Solution in
the World Now Certified in 3.5 GHz
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that its BreezeMAX system, the most deployed
WiMAX solution in the world with over 150 installations in more than 30
countries, has achieved WiMAX Forum certification. The specific products
certified include the BreezeMAX PRO CPE family, as part of its
dedication to customers and the market to meet WiMAX Forum certification
in the second quarter. All products operate at 3.5 GHz FDD and use the
Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip.
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“As one of the founding companies of the WiMAX Forum, and supplying
several key executives serving to our organization over the years,
Alvarion has been a consistent contributor to WiMAX and the market
overall," said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. "Its market
leading deployments worldwide have helped drive the WiMAX market
overall, and Alvarion’s certification of BreezeMAX represents another
step in realizing our vision for the accelerated growth of broadband
services through WiMAX.”
Certification means that a WiMAX device complies with the IEEE 802.16
and ETSI HiperMAN standards based on 100% success in a series of
authorized WiMAX Forum interoperability tests. The WiMAX Forum is an
industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to help promote and certify
the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products
using the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications. The
Forum’s goal is to accelerate the introduction of standard broadband
devices into the market with fully interoperable WiMAX Forum Certified™
products supporting metropolitan area fixed, portable and mobile
broadband applications.
BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s WiMAX platform, designed from the ground up
according to the IEEE 802.16 standards to support fixed, nomadic,
portable and mobile WiMAX applications. Its carrier-class design
supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable
carriers to offer triple play services to thousands of subscribers in a
single base station. Powered by Alvarion’s advanced radio technologies,
BreezeMAX is the primary building block of Alvarion’s recently announced
4Motion™ mobile WiMAX solution. Demonstrated at CTIA and CommunicAsia,
4Motion is an end-to-end WiMAX 802.16e-2005 solution enabling service
providers to begin deploying a WiMAX network today with the ability to
support personal broadband services.
"Having been first to the market with a commercially deployed system
since 2004 with over 80% of the WiMAX market, receiving certification
for BreezeMAX is a major milestone toward universal WiMAX services,"
said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "We continue to
execute our plans and meet our targets. Introducing our WiMAX equipment
in the market before certification was available enabled us to capture
market share and satisfy customers’ immediate requirements, while
achieving timely certification on a field proven solution."
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
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.
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part of.
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