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Finnet Group Operators Building
WiMAX Network Using Alvarion and Local Partner Daimler Finland
Other Topics: WiMAX Mobile Handset,
Mobile WiMAX Turnkey Solution
Alvarion Ltd.
January 4, 2006
BreezeMAX™ 3500 Providing
Broadband Services to Permanent and Summer Tourists in the Saimaa Lake
District in Southeastern Finland
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, and its partner Daimler Finland, a local Finnish distributor,
today announced that two Finnet Group operators have begun deployment of
a WiMAX network using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX 3500. Savonlinnan Puhelin
(SPY) and Mikkelin Puhelin (MPY) will offer broadband data services to
permanent residents and the large influx of summer tourists in the
Saimaa Lake District, in the South Savo region of southeast Finland. As
part of the government’s commitment to ‘universal broadband’, up to 29
percent of funding for the network, known as the eSavo Project, is
derived from the various municipalities in the region and the European
Union. The Finnet Group consists of 37 telephone operating companies
focuses primarily on local telecommunications services.
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“We are pleased to be working with Daimler Finland and Alvarion on a
WiMAX network, and this network in Savo promises to be the largest
broadband access network we have ever deployed in a rural area. Our
solution was based on the successful experiences of other Finnet
operators with BreezeMAX in other regions of the country,” said Mauri
Valkonen, Chief of Department Network Services of MPY. “Our overall
target is to increase the broadband service coverage of households and
businesses in the South Savo region from its current level of 70% to
96%, and the eSavo Project is a key part of that effort,” said Ari
Pussinen, Planning Manager of SPY.
BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s award winning, WiMAX platform that has been
designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards using
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 from a single base station.
“With these new deployments, we have now implemented more than ten
BreezeMAX networks with Finnet Group operators throughout Finland,” said
Janne Paldanius of Daimler Finland. “Our partnership with Alvarion has
been instrumental in closing the gap of our country’s digital divide by
increasing the overall number of homes and businesses that benefit from
broadband services in rural areas and we plan to continue to offer WiMAX
technology to operators delivering broadband to the unserved in
Finland.”
Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed
in over 140 installations throughout more than 30 countries around the
world. This past September, the BreezeMAX PRO CPE using the Intel®
PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip became commercially available and this
deployment represents its first installation in Finland.
“Alvarion’s strong local partnership with Daimler Finland has yielded
significant additional deployments in Finland with the eSavo Project
demonstrating the success of public, private partnerships for broadband
deployments,” said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. “SPY
and MPY are two examples of the many operators worldwide now taking
advantage of the opportunity to deploy the first commercially available
CPE that uses the Intel WiMAX chip. Given Savo’s combined challenges of
harsh winter weather and large influx of summer tourists, the Saimaa
Lake District networks demonstrate the robustness of BreezeMAX to
withstand the Scandinavian climate and scale quickly to support the
influx of more than 40,000 tourists during the summer vacation season.
Over the years, Scandinavia and especially Finland, have been at the
forefront of adopting innovative wireless technologies, and we welcome
their help now in leading WiMAX deployments there.”
About Daimler Finland
Daimler Finland Ltd, founded in 1993, is a privately owned information
technology company situated in Helsinki. The company offers products and
services to operators, ISPs, enterprises, the public sector and
consumers. Specializing in broadband Internet access solutions the offer
includes both wireless and wired networks. For a decade now Daimler has
delivered wireless networks to the Finnish market, providing a large
range of indoor, outdoor and public access solutions on both licensed
and license free frequencies. Daimler also operates in Sweden, Denmark
and the Baltic countries. www.daimler.fi
About Finnet Group/SPY/MPY
Finnet is a Finnish data communications group that offers its customers
local and national voice call, data and digital television services. The
first companies belonging to the Finnet group were established over 120
years ago, only six years after the telephone was invented. From the
beginning, the companies have actively participated in the development
of Finnish data communication know-how and have thus strongly influenced
the creation of a Finnish information society. Finnet group consists of
37 locally operating telephone companies, Finnet Ltd and Finnet
Association. The total net sales of Finnet group in 2004 amounted to EUR
1001 million, and it employs ca 5,100 people. Finnet’s main market area
is Finland.
Finnet Ltd and its subsidiaries are responsible for the national
business operations of Finnet group. Finnet’s telephone companies own
Finnet Ltd.
Finnet Association is a trade and operational political interest group
and co-operation forum of Finnet group, responsible for the supervision
of the interests of its members both nationally and internationally.
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 130 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 ten years from core technology
developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging
its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and
experience deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work in
the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing 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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