Alvarion Announces Availability of World's
Smallest Complete GSM Network
Alvarion
February 14, 2006
UltraWAVE NIB Supports Full Functionality
Including Value Added Services
3GSM Barcelona, Spain, -- Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s
leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized
mobile networks, today announced the availability of the world’s
smallest complete GSM network, the UltraWAVE network-in-a-box (NIB).
Designed for rapid deployment and easy integration with existing
wireless and wireline networks, the NIB is ideal for government and
military installations; transportation applications such as ships,
airplanes, subways, and tunnels; and private networks, including as a
laboratory system for GSM developers’ solutions testing. The UltraWAVE
NIB supports full GSM functionality, including value added services,
and is perfectly suited for small to medium size networks and for
deployment in remote areas. Commercially available by the end of the
first quarter of this year, the UltraWAVE NIB will be first shown at
Alvarion’s booth in Hall 2 (#F10a) at the 3GSM World Congress being
held February 13-16, 2006, in Barcelona, Spain.
“As the smallest complete GSM network solution, the UltraWAVE NIB is a
major breakthrough that results in cost effectiveness and faster time
to market for operators as they can now quickly buy and deploy an
entire network in one step,” said Amir Rosenzweig, President of
Alvarion, Inc. “There are many cell-in-a-box solutions available
today, but our NIB is the first to support complete GSM network
functionality including value added services. This gives our
customers, especially extremely small and other specialized operators
such as governments, additional granularity in their network building
for greater CAPEX and OPEX savings and shows our ongoing efforts to
develop innovative products for the mobile market.”
The UltraWAVE Network-in-a-Box (NIB) is the smallest and least
expensive entry point to offering GSM services, providing a complete
network solution with flexible backhaul. Operating in the GSM
frequencies of 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz, the UltraWAVE NIB is
housed in a single 19 inch rack-mounted chassis and meets “two-man
lift” requirements. With its compact dimensions (53 x 49 x 41cm) and
weight of 57 kg, the NIB is about the size of a small television.
About Alvarion
Alvarion is the worldwide leader in wireless broadband and compact
cellular solutions providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private
network operators, with more than 2 million units deployed in 150
countries.
Extending coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing
countries and other hard to serve areas, Alvarion offers complete and
scalable mobile network solutions that feature a low cost of entry,
local switching, and integrated VAS functionality. Alvarion mobile
network solutions can also be used in rapid deployment situations as
tactical networks and disaster recovery solutions for military and
government applications, and they meet “two man lift” requirements.
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.
For more information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at
www.alvarion.com |
