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Press
release on Alvarion® and
Iberbanda
Reach Milestone of 1,000th
WiMAX™ Base
Station Installed in
Spain.
Dated
February 17, 2010
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SIGNATURES
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ALVARION
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Date:
February 17, 2010
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/s/ Efrat
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Contacts
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Efrat
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Claudia
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+972-3-645-6252
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+212-830-9080
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alvarion®
and Iberbanda Reach Milestone of 1,000th WiMAX™ Base
Station
Installed in Spain
Alvarion’s
BreezeMAX® platform delivers high-speed wireless broadband
enabling
a variety of applications
Tel Aviv, February 17th, 2010 — Alvarion Ltd.
(NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of 4G WiMAX™ and wireless
broadband solutions, and Iberbanda, Spain’s leading WiMAX carrier, today
announced that the companies have now deployed 1000 base stations in Spain. The
deployment, using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX® base station solution at 3.5 GHz
frequency, is currently providing high speed data and voice services to a
large population in Spain.
Iberbanda,
focused in rural and underserved areas, is working through direct as well as
indirect channels to offer wireless broadband services in many autonomous
communities in Spain including Castilla y Leon, Catalunya, Navarra, and
Andalucia.
“We are
committed to bring advanced broadband services and applications to our
customers,” said Mr. Ricardo Gomez Villagran, CEO of Iberbanda. “Through
Alvarion’s robust cutting-edge WiMAX solutions, top quality radio performance
and highly stable networks, we are able to offer efficient high-quality
broadband services to our customers.”
“The
WiMAX Forum congratulates Iberbanda for reaching this important milestone in its
deployment using Alvarion’s WiMAX Forum Certified equipment,” said Ron Resnick,
president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum. “WiMAX networks continue to expand at
a very healthy pace despite challenges from the slowly recovering global
economy, and we look forward to more meaningful progress from the ecosystem in
2010.”
“We are
pleased to be supporting Iberbanda’s commitment to enable broadband services
throughput the country to bridge the digital divide,” said Eran Gorev, president
and CEO of Alvarion. “Our experience in rolling out high-speed wireless
broadband networks, combined with our expertise in all-IP WiMAX solutions, has
been instrumental in reaching this milestone.”
Alvarion
offers an integrated all IP, 4G WiMAX solution coupled with turnkey professional
services. Alvarion’s BreezeMAX solution is based on fourth generation OFDM radio
innovation that provides state-of-the-art 4G functionality in one of the
industry’s most deployed WiMAX platforms. BreezeMAX is built with IP and OFDM
innovation that spans over 12 years of development experience and provides a
carrier class stable platform that allows rapid development of new features.
Alvarion’s products use advance technologies to increase power efficiency and
reduce product foot print thus minimizing the environmental impact of its
solutions and improving operators' business case with lower total cost of
ownership.
About
Iberbanda
Iberbanda,
operator of broadband telecommunications, offers customers a broad range of
services providing access to high speed Internet, telephony, data transmission
and value-added services network, which are sold through its website www.iberbanda.es,
freephone and 1632.
Iberbanda,
with a presence throughout the national territory, is the operator of broadband
telecommunications, which has its own communications network via radio
technology (LMDS, WiMAX) to deliver services with advanced features and provide
connectivity to large areas where no other broadband
infrastructure.
About
Alvarion
Alvarion
(NASDAQ:ALVR) is a global leader in 4G wireless communications with the
industry’s most extensive customer base with hundreds of commercial WiMAX
deployments. Alvarion’s industry leading solutions enable true open 4G and
vertical applications for service providers and enterprises. Through an OPEN
WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy large
scale end-to-end turnkey networks, Alvarion is delivering the true 4G broadband
experience today (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: potential impact on our business of the current global recession,
the inability of our customers to obtain credit to purchase our products as a
result of global credit market conditions, the failure to fund projects under
the U.S. broadband stimulus program, continued delays in WiMAX license
allocation in certain countries; the failure of the market for WIMAX products to
develop as anticipated; potential impact on our business of the current global
recession;, Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the expected growth
of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive
reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing
objectives; 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
inability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising,
marketing, and technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time
in the Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other
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 such third parties for
inclusion in this press release. The web sites 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.
You may
request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by
contacting Kika
Stayerman, kika.stayerman@alvarion.com
or +972.3.767.4159.
"WiMAX"
is a trademark of the WiMAX Forum.
"Alvarion"
is a registered trademark of Alvarion Ltd. in certain jurisdictions
All
other companies' names, products, services may be the properties of their
respective owners.
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