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Alvarion
Enhances BreezeACCESS™VL, Its Carrier-Class Broadband Wireless Access
Platform In 5 GHz
Systems Now Features Improved Capacity, Performance, and Deployment
Flexibility
Tel Aviv, Israel, March 15, 2005 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and
specialized mobile networks, today announced that BreezeACCESS™ VL
customers will receive increased capacity, an option for narrower
channels for more effective network planning, and improved
interference resistance. These improvements are part of both VL
hardware and firmware enhancements.
Now new networks built in North America can enjoy up to a 30% increase
in capacity, while European customers can get up to a 50% increase.
Also provided is a new channel spacing option of 10MHz, in addition to
the 20MHz currently offered, to enable greater flexibility in network
planning. Notably significant is the addition of an automatic clear
channel selection (ACCS) using a built in spectrum analyzer that
detects the noise on each channel, thereby allowing the unit to select
the clearest channel. All new hardware is fully interoperable with
existing network deployments, which include customers such as Verizon
Avenue and British Telecom.
“In just two years, Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL has become a leading
product for 5GHz network deployments in terms of market share,” said
Emmy Johnson, Principal Analyst of Sky Light Research. “Its strong
reputation for performance is furthered strengthened with these new
product enhancements, all of which will help the company to solidify
its position with operators around the globe.”
The improved BreezeACCESS VL solution is the latest evolution of the
BreezeACCESS product family, a family of more than 300,000 units
installed. Superior features such as OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS),
extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), high capacity,
encryption, and QoS mechanisms enable carriers, mobile operators,
ISPs, enterprises and others to reach a vantage point of providing
WiMAX services today. The per chassis maximum capacity now reaches
over 300 Mbps which is capable of serving more than 3,000 subscribers
in a single 3U shelf base station. This release of BreezeACCESS VL is
accompanied by an updated version of AlvariSTAR™, Alvarion’s
comprehensive network management support tool with scaleable
architecture, topology management, configuration and monitoring, fault
management, and performance monitoring.
“These improvements take forward the current market leading broadband
wireless platform in adding capacity and improving performance for
carrier-class networks,” commented Rudy Leser, Alvarion’s VP of
Marketing. “We are happy to provide our customers with service levels
on par with our WiMAX-ready platform in the provision of high speed
data and voice over IP services. Our customers can now improve their
business models by adding more subscribers and higher speeds services
without expanding their network infrastructure.” |
