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Network Using Alvarion WiMAX and Broadband Wireless Systems
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WiMAX Ecosystem, WiMAX Last Mile Connectivity,
Carrier Class VoIP WiMAX
Alvarion Ltd.
February 22, 2006
Recent Orders Totaling Over $4 Million for BreezeMAX™, BreezeACCESS®
VL, and WALKair 3000
Tel Aviv, Israel, -- Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced a major network expansion by current customer,
Irish Broadband, having received additional equipment orders totaling
over $4 million for systems to be delivered through the second quarter
of 2006. This network expansion enables Ireland’s leading, innovative
wireless broadband service provider to nearly double its subscriber base
by expanding its network coverage in Dublin and to eight other major
cities in Ireland and Northern Ireland. To enable rapid growth and serve
the full range of potential customers from residences and SOHOs to
medium and large businesses, Irish Broadband is deploying broadband
wireless equipment in both licensed and licensed-exempt frequency bands,
including Alvarion’s BreezeMAX™ 3500—the worldwide leading WiMAX system,
BreezeACCESS™ VL, and WALKair™3000 systems. This latest order makes
Alvarion Irish Broadband’s largest broadband wireless equipment
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As part of its network expansion plans, Irish Broadband and Intel
recently announced a major initiative for the immediate rollout of WiMAX
networks using BreezeMAX, which uses the BreezeMAX PRO, the world’s
first CPE that uses the Intel WiMAX chip, to eight of Ireland’s major
urban centres. Included in the WiMAX launch are the cities of Athlone,
Arklow, Carlow, Ennis, Kilkenny, Letterkenny, Newbridge, and Wexford.
“Once we complete our network expansion, Irish Broadband will be a major
regional service provider in Ireland offering thousands of subscribers
the benefits of broadband,” commented Paul Doody, Managing Director of
Irish Broadband. “This selection of Alvarion for both WiMAX and
broadband wireless systems reflects our past successes with the company,
its world class equipment and support, and makes Alvarion our sole WiMAX
systems provider. We are also excited to be part of Intel’s worldwide
WiMAX efforts, and in doing so, to be taking a leading role in the
global acceptance of WiMAX and its deployment by carriers everywhere.”
As part of their worldwide WiMAX project, Intel selected Irish Broadband
as one of sixteen strategic partners in sixteen countries to design,
build and drive the development of WiMAX networks globally. Irish
Broadband is the first company in this program to offer service on its
WiMAX network.
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. Since its launch in mid-2004,
BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 150 installations in
more than 30 countries around the world.
“Since 2002, Irish Broadband has been very successful using our
market-leading systems to fill broadband coverage holes in Ireland,"
said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. “As an ’innovative
challenger’ evolving its network to WiMAX, Irish Broadband is validating
the coming growth in the broadband wireless market due to WiMAX
standards, and Alvarion's role in this network expansion and as their
only WiMAX provider shows our continued market leadership in wireless
broadband. We are pleased that one of our key customers was chosen by
Intel to be a strategic partner in its worldwide promotion and roll-out
of WiMAX services, and we remain committed to supporting such
partnerships, including the 30 other carrier customers now deploying
Alvarion systems using the Intel chip.”
Alvarion’s system for license exempt spectrum is the BreezeACCESS VL,
offering enhanced features such as OFDM for non-line-of-sight (NLOS)
connections, extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles),
high capacity, encryption, and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms for
carrier-class broadband data and voice services. With its advanced
features such as 10 and 20 MHz channels and automatic clear channel
selection (ACCS) with a built-in spectrum analyzer, BreezeACCESS VL
enables flexibility in frequency planning.
About Irish Broadband
Irish Broadband is a subsidiary of NTR plc, Ireland’s leading private
sector developer, financier and operator of public and environmental
infrastructure. In July 2002, Irish Broadband received a license to
operate wireless broadband networks from Ireland’s ComReg (Commission
for Communications Regulation – previously ODTR). Since then the company
has deployed an aggressive network rollout and customer acquisition.
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 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
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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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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