Innovative Carriers Demonstrate Pan European WiMAX Services Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX
Monday February 13, 8:36 am ET Multimedia WiMAX Applications Being Demonstrated During 3GSM by Three Carriers with Commercial BreezeMAX(TM) Networks
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2006--While activity bustles on the show floor at the 3GSM World Congress here, three innovative carriers, who currently operate commercial WiMAX networks using Alvarion's (NASDAQ: ALVR - News) BreezeMAX system, will be demonstrating the delivery of pan European multimedia services over wireless broadband. Iberbanda (Spain), Irish Broadband (Ireland) and MobileCity (Sweden)--all of whom have also deployed the BreezeMAX PRO CPE using the Intel WiMAX chip--are linking up their networks to give a glimpse of WiMAX services to press and government authorities. The demonstration will be held in the Pueblo Espanol Castle of Barcelona on Wednesday, February 15th, beginning at 13:45.
"This is another significant WiMAX milestone for Alvarion as the first vendor to support continent-wide commercial WiMAX services," said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. "Participants will witness first hand the quality of service, reliability, and product quality that has made BreezeMAX the WiMAX platform of choice in more than 150 deployments worldwide. 'Broadband everywhere' services enabled by WiMAX will improve everyone's lifestyles and productivity, and this demonstration is the start of that reality and part of our all IP, Personal Broadband vision for the telecommunications industry going forward."
BreezeMAX, Alvarion's WiMAX platform, was 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 150 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.
Participating in the 3GSM World Congress being held February 13-16, 2006, in Barcelona, Spain, Alvarion's booth is located in Hall 2 (#F10a).
About Iberbanda
Iberbanda is an innovative broadband communications provider utilizing wireless local loop technology in its own access network deployed in Spain. The company offers managed bandwidth services plus a new generation of telephony, Internet access, hosting, data transmission and online IT solutions. Iberbanda is a member of WiMAX Forum. For more information, please visit www.iberbanda.es
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. Irish Broadband obtained a telecommunications licence from the Office of the Director of Telecommunications (ComReg) in July 2002 and began customer connections in August 2002. Irish Broadband currently holds 3.5GHz spectrum licenses in 27 regions around Ireland including Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Drogheda and Dundalk, Athlone, Arklow, Ennis, Kilkenny, Letterkenny, Newbridge, Portlaoise, Wexford and Carlow. For more information, visit www.irishbroadband.ie
About MobileCity
MobileCity is a profit and competence center in Skellefte, Sweden, where industrial businesses and universities collaborate on research and product development within one of the most expansive and exciting fields in today's world: wireless communications. MobileCity is located close to Campus Skellefte, a melting pot for innovative businesses and universities. For more information, visit www.mobilecity.se
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.
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
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