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Netia
Selects Alvarion's BreezeMAX(TM) for a 20 City WiMAX Deployment in
Poland
Other Topics: WiMAX Triple Play
Service Solution, WiMAX Network
Solution
BUSINESS WIRE
August 22, 2006
Broadband Triple Play Services
to be Provided by WiMAX System Operating in 3.6 GHz
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that Netia, a leading competitive Polish
telecommunications provider, has selected its BreezeMAX 3600 for a 20
city WiMAX deployment in Poland. An extension of Alvarion's market
leading BreezeMAX solution operating from 3.6 to 3.8 GHz, the BreezeMAX
3600 is targeted at WiMAX operators in Europe and other countries where
that frequency is available and enables carriers to offer broadband
data, voice, and multimedia services with high performance over wide
coverage areas. As a customer of Alvarion's MGW solution for
multi-residential voice and data services, Netia began this WiMAX
deployment in 20 additional cities upon receiving the nationwide
license. Netia is one of four Polish carriers who received the
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"We want both business
and residential subscribers across Poland to automatically think of
Netia when signing up for broadband," said Wojciech Madalski, president
and CEO of Netia. "We selected the strong team of Alvarion to ensure
that we can provide WiMAX services to subscribers in the first 20 cities
by the end of August."
BreezeMAX is Alvarion's award-winning 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 180 installations in
more than 80 countries around the world.
"Netia is an excellent example of a carrier who plans to use WiMAX
aggressively to expand its service offerings and penetrate various new
markets for increased revenues," commented Tzvika Friedman, president
and CEO of Alvarion. "Our more than a decade of leadership in broadband
wireless access and now WiMAX enabled us to quickly match our BreezeMAX
system to the spectrum needs of Netia. We are pleased to provide them
with the world's most widely deployed WiMAX system in the frequency band
they require and look forward to helping Netia grow its WiMAX network to
cover all of Poland eventually."
About Netia S.A.
Netia is the largest alternative fixed-line telecommunications operator
in Poland. It operates on the basis of its own, state-of-the-art
fiber-optic backbone network that connects the largest Polish cities as
well as its local access networks. Netia provides a broad range of
telecommunications services, including voice, data and network wholesale
services.
To further strengthen its customer offering by including a convergent
product, Netia intends to develop mobile capability to offer mobile
services. The reservation of UMTS frequencies for P4 (previously Netia
Mobile) was formally awarded by the Polish regulator.
Netia's subsidiaries were announced as winners of Poland's tender for
frequency reservations in 3.6-3.8 GHz range. Netia plans to use the
above frequencies to provide high quality data and voice transmission in
WiMAX technology.
The main shareholders of Netia SA are international and Polish financial
funds. Netia's shares are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. More
information on Netia can be found at http://www.netia.pl.
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 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(TM) 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.
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
such third parties for inclusion in this press release. The web sites
appearing in this press release are not and will not be included or
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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Kit by contacting Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com
or +1.650.314.2653.
Contacts
Alvarion Ltd.
Investor Contacts:
Dafna Gruber, +972-3-645-6252
650-314-2652
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com
Carmen Deville, 650-314-2653
carmen.deville@alvarion.com
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