For the month of November 2008
Commission File Number: 0-30628
| ALVARION LTD. |
| (Translation of registrant’s name into English) |
| 21A Habarzel Street, Tel Aviv 69710, Israel |
| (Address of principal executive office) |
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| Exhibit | Description | Sequential Page Number |
| 1. | Press release on Alvarion® Expands
Altitude's Mobile WiMAX™ Network in France. Dated November 10th, 2008 |
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: November 10th, 2008 |
ALVARION LTD. By: /s/ Efrat Makov —————————————— Efrat Makov CFO |
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| Efrat Makov, CFO | Claudia Gatlin, Investor Relations |
| +972-3-645-6252 | +212-830-9080 |
| +760-517-3187 | claudia.gatlin@alvarion.com |
| efrat.makov@alvarion.com |
Alvarion® Expands Altitude’s Mobile WiMAX™ Network in France
Enhanced broadband services offered over Alvarion’s 4Motion®
solution to the regions of
Deux Sevres and Jura
Tel Aviv, Israel, November 10, 2008 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced the expansion of its frame agreement with the French WiMAX operator Altitude. Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX™ 4Motion solution will be used by Altitude to extend its coverage and provide voice and data services at 3.5 GHz to corporate, ISP and residential users in the Jura and Deux Sevres districts.
The rollout of this commercial network is already underway, with plans to be completed in early 2009. The new network will offer an enhanced portfolio of high quality wireless broadband services over Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX solution, including indoor and outdoor CPEs.
“Building on our success throughout the region of Aveyron, we see an increase in demand for WiMAX broadband services,” said Fabrice Ballart, Managing Director of Altitude Infrastructure. “As always, we are committed to provide the best services and cost effective solutions to our customers, and therefore growing with Alvarion was the natural choice for moving forward and enabling seamless connectivity to the residents of France. This expansion will allow us to reach more customers and offer them the benefits of WiMAX at competitive rates.”
“A pioneer of WiMAX in France, we congratulate Altitude on the expansion of its network and look forward to our long-term partnership,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and CEO of Alvarion. “Increasing network capacity with our Mobile WiMAX solution enables Altitude to maintain a competitive position in the challenging market while ensuring quality of service and innovation for future expansions.”
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Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion solution is the foundation of the company’s OPEN™ WiMAX ecosystem, which combines BreezeMAX® and other best-in-class systems. A complete all-IP Mobile WiMAX solution, 4Motion is designed to enable service providers to offer subscribers fixed and mobile Personal Broadband services anytime, anywhere. The 4Motion solution is comprised of core network elements, IP radio networking elements and end user devices.
About Altitude
Altitude is a telecommunication
operator, which invests in broadband technologies to provide solutions for voice, data
and Internet businesses, everywhere in France. Altitude takes advantage on its expertise
of all telecommunications technologies (xDSL, fiber optics, BLR-WiMAX, ISDN, Edge-GPRS,
etc.), to offer its services to many administrations and large companies: MPLS IP VPN,
voice over IP, Internet access, hosting, and convergence. For more information, visit www.altitudeinfrastructure.fr.
About
Alvarion
Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure
player ensuring customer 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 has delivered over 200 commercial WiMAX
deployments worldwide (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: the failure of the market for WIMAX
products to develop as anticipated; 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.
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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 Forum” is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. “WiMAX,” the WiMAX Forum logo, “WiMAX Forum Certified” and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum.
“Alvarion”“BreezeMAX” and “4Motion” are the registered trademarks of Alvarion Ltd.
“OPEN”is the trademark of Alvarion Ltd.
All other companies’ names, products, services may be the properties of their respective owners.
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