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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Alvarion® and Linkem Build Mobile WiMAX™ Network for 2009 World Swimming Championship in Rome
Rome - Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, and Italian telecommunications company Linkem today announced that they will provide wireless broadband coverage for the 13th annual world swimming championship in Rome from July 17th through August 2nd. Linkem was recently selected by the championship’s organizing committee to create a wireless network using WiMAX and Wi-Fi technologies in both the indoor and outdoor areas of Rome’s Olympic Village. The network will provide coverage to an area of roughly 70,000 m². About 400,000 visitors, including over 1,800 journalists, from over 180 countries are expected to attend the championship at the Foro Italico stadium and enjoy a true 4G services.
Alvarion and Linkem will hold an exclusive press cocktail event at the championship hospitality booth during the evening of July 22nd. The joint event will be located inside the Foro Italico, hospitality village in the American Bar.
“This network built in cooperation with Alvarion will provide a glimpse of advanced wireless services we are bringing throughout Italy using the cutting edge capabilities of WiMAX technology,” said Davide Rota, CEO for Linkem. “The network will provide high-speed wireless communication to journalists, event organizers and visitors. Journalists will have the ability to report from the event in real-time, without delay.”
“This innovative application of 4G WiMAX technology presents seamless wireless connectivity for journalists from around the world covering and attending the event providing them with stable and reliable communication,” said Berge Ayvazian, 4G industry analyst from Yankee Group. “This project also showcases Linkem’s expansion of 4G services in Italy, providing mobile broadband connectivity everywhere it is needed, even at sporting events.”
The primary end user devices used for accessing the WiMAX service will include Alvarion’s recently launched BreezeMAX® USB device and indoor CPE. BreezeMAX USB is a compact wireless modem designed for fixed and mobile subscribers and enables plug-and-play operation with easy-to-install and self-provisioning capabilities. This product is suitable for laptop and desktop users and will allow them a continuous broadband connectivity from any location, any time.
“As Italy opens up to the benefits of WiMAX technology, consumers will demand ever increasing bandwidth irrespective of where they are located,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “Linkem’s network at the world championship will showcase the latest broadband wireless applications available in the market today. Through our end-to-end turnkey WiMAX solutions, we can address all the connectivity requirements for the event, and ultimately provide a very good user experience for the event’s visitors.”
Alvarion will also enable TV coverage in the Hospitality Village booth through an outdoor CPE and camera on WiMAX feed.
About Linkem
Linkem S.p.A. is a telecommunications company that provides connectivity services for Internet through wireless systems (Wi-MAX, Wi-Fi, Hiperlan). It has purchased usage rights for WiMAX radio frequencies used in 13 Regions. Thanks to a 200 million Euro investment plan and a 50 million euro increase in capital approved last May, Linkem will be able to cover 80% of the national territory with the innovative WiMAX system by 2012. Up to now, projects have commenced in Lombardy, Veneto, Lazio, Campania, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. The first provinces where the WiMAX system was installed were Brescia, Bari, Crotone and Latina.
Linkem has also gained solid experience by guaranteeing network connections to about 400 municipalities nationwide with Hiperlan technology, and by guaranteeing Wi-Fi coverage in the main high traffic sites, such as dozens of airports, several service station areas along the motorways, harbours, congress centres, auditoriums, public places, etc. Linkem’s high professional standards have allowed the company to win important contracts abroad, like the airports JFK in New York, O’Hare in Chicago and Heathrow in London.
About Alvarion
Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of business cases. Through its OPEN WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy end-to-end turnkey WiMAX projects, Alvarion is shaping the new wireless broadband experience (www.alvarion.com).
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