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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Alvarion® Receives WiMAX Forum® Certification for its 802.16e BreezeMAX® Solution
Alvarion® Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its 802.16e BreezeMAX® 2.5 GHz base station has been certified by the WiMAX Forum®. This achievement further proves Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX™ leadership and ongoing contribution to the acceleration of industry standardization. Alvarion is one of the first four base station vendors to receive the WiMAX Forum flagship profile certification.
The WiMAX Forum Certified™ seal of approval was granted to products that successfully passed rigorous testing to fully comply with the strict interoperability and conformance standards of the WiMAX Forum. The certification process required devices to be interoperable with the base station for advanced features such as MIMO (multiple input/multiple output), and modes of operation such as idle mode. The certified equipment will allow operators to enjoy the advantages of a scalable platform and a wide range of interoperable devices, ensuring competitive prices gained through economies of scale.
”The WiMAX Forum would like to thank Alvarion and the other member companies that have worked so hard to achieve today’s milestone and enabling the Forum to continue to reach critical objectives with the ongoing certification of Mobile WiMAX equipment,” said Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum, during a press conference at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress in Amsterdam. “Alvarion has played an important role in WiMAX Forum’s success of driving market momentum by enabling us to move closer to delivering on our plan to certify more than 100 Mobile WiMAX products in 2008. Our six independent WiMAX Forum certification labs are on now online to manage the anticipated increase of products to be submitted for certification.”
“Being one of the first few vendors to achieve Mobile WiMAX Wave 2, 2.5 GHz certification, further demonstrates our leadership position in the WiMAX industry,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “We are proud to be at the forefront of the industry with an innovative and mature Mobile WiMAX base station solution. This achievement reiterates Alvarion’s commitment to be an innovative, flexible and customer oriented company and is a significant milestone of our OPEN WiMAX strategy, which we have led from the very beginning. Promoting open networks for next generation Mobile WiMAX solutions in 2.5, 3.5 and 2.3 GHz frequencies will encourage competition and allow freedom of choice to both operators and their customers.”
Alvarion’s BreezeMAX base station incorporates SentieM™ technologies in the end-to-end Mobile WiMAX 4Motion® solution. SentieM™ enhances the Mobile WiMAX basic technology and provides better coverage, capacity and throughput per user. SentieM includes Advanced Antenna and Radio Resource technologies in addition to Distributed Open Network capabilities, enabling operators to improve their business case.
The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. Currently, the organization has more than 500 member companies including service providers, regulators, equipment vendors, chip vendors, and content providers.
About Alvarion
Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customers’ long term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN™ WiMAX strategy, the company offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners. Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide (www.alvarion.com).
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