Alvarion Ltd. have announced the BreezeMAX™ Si, a self-installable, indoor
WiMAX-ready customer premises equipment (CPE) based on the IEEE 802.16-2004
standard. The equipment uses the Intel®PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface
chip. According to the Company website, the BreezeMAX Si would be demonstrated
at the WCA annual show, June 29-30, Booth #323, in Washington, D.C., and
available for customer trials later this year.
"Alvarion is taking another positive step towards realizing the future
of WiMAX technology for use in the home and office," said Scott Richardson,
General Manager of Intel's Broadband Wireless Division. "With the Intel®
PRO/Wireless WiMAX Modem Silicon, Alvarion's BreezeMAX Si offers consumers a
high-quality broadband wireless solution with simple indoor installation."
This new indoor CPE, together with outdoor CPEs, offers carriers
optimization by trading-off coverage, capacity and installation costs.
Self-install unit enables carriers to vary their distribution channels to best
fit their business models.
Since announcing its WiMAX technology related agreement with Intel in July
2003, Alvarion major mile stones inlcude:
- Commercial launch of its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX™ 3500 and subsequent
installation with numerous operators worldwide,
- Live demonstration of triple play services with a WiMAX-ready CPE using
the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface, showcased in April of
this year with Iberbanda's Alvarion network in the WiMAX Forum's Cetecom lab
in Malaga, Spain; and
- The upcoming availability of BreezeMAX at 2.3 and 2.5 GHz.
"BreezeMAX Si represents another significant achievement in Alvarion
realizing its WiMAX vision of broadband everywhere. It's small, attractive shape
contains the most advanced WiMAX technology on the market today making it easy
to deploy and easy to use," said Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. "As
the world leader in selling WiMAX equipment, we are continuing to push toward
mass market adoption and reducing installation time and cost is a major part of
that effort. The enhanced value proposition of a standards-based, self-install
CPE with Alvarion's proven reliability and performance will benefit our existing
customers as well as the market as a whole."
BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion's WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for
non-line-of-sight (NLOS) radio wave propagation. It is designed for
operators to provide both broadband IP-based data and voice services. Its
carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to
enable carriers to offer multiple services to thousands of subscribers in a
single base station.
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.
For more information, visit Alvarion's World Wide Web site at
www.alvarion.com
Contact: Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com or
+1-650.314.2653.
