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Deville
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carmen.deville@alvarion.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALVARION
AND TROPOS PARTNER TO DELIVER INNOVATIVE
MUNICIPAL
WIRELESS BROADBAND SOLUTIONS
Partnership
Combines Companies’ Market Leading Technologies and Products
To
Offer Cost Effective, Easy to Deploy Broadband
Networks
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Mountain
View and Sunnyvale, California, March 6, 2006 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks and Tropos, the world’s leading provider of Wi-Fi mesh systems, today
announced their agreement to jointly target the municipal broadband market
with
a combination of their market leading technologies and products to enable
municipalities to easily deploy cost effective broadband networks.
Combining
Alvarion’s recently released BreezeACCESS™ 4900 for the 4.9 GHz band licensed
for the U.S. public safety market and its market leading BreezeACCESS® VL for
the 5 GHz unlicensed band with Tropos’s field proven MetroMesh™ Wi-Fi products,
offers municipalities the ability to quickly and inexpensively deploy broadband,
from access to backhaul, as a single flexible, robust network. Since the
combined solution supports both fixed and mobile users, customers benefit
from
both companies’ expertise in engineering and design of complex municipal network
architectures. The companies are already jointly engaged in numerous high
profile projects across the U.S.
“With
the
intense public sector interest in broadband applications, combining our market
leading wide area broadband solution with Tropos’ Wi-Fi mesh systems creates a
unique offering for municipalities and other government organizations wanting
to
implement broadband,” commented Amir Rosenzweig, President of Alvarion, Inc.
“The broadband capacity, advanced security, and non line-of-sight performance
of
the BreezeACCESS 4900 for licensed public safety deployments and the
BreezeACCESS VL for deployments using the 5 GHz unlicensed band make them
ideal
systems for multipoint backhaul of the Tropos MetroMesh access clouds. Together,
we have greatly strengthened our position toward immediate and future municipal
opportunities.”
With
advanced OFDM technology, the BreezeACCESS platform enables high-capacity,
non
line-of-sight connections, while offering a host of advanced features to
support
scalability and advanced applications like VoIP and video. Enabling
point-to-multipoint backhauling of Wi-Fi mesh clouds, BreezeACCESS systems
can
also be used to access devices such as sensors, cameras
and traffic systems located throughout a city. To meet the rigorous security
demands of public safety networks, BreezeACCESS 4900 is FIPS-197 certified
and
employs federally approved AES encryption.
“We
expect great opportunities from the partnership between Tropos and Alvarion,”
said Ron Sege, CEO of Tropos Networks. “Our customers demand flexible and
reliable wireless broadband solutions, and this agreement allows us to continue
building best-of-breed metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh systems, while leveraging
Alvarion’s multipoint expertise to supply the capacity injection into the mesh
clouds using a combination of 4.9 GHz, licensed and 5 GHz, unlicensed spectrum.
Our combined experience in this market is completely unmatched, which adds
tremendous value to this offering and
creates a
win-
win situation, for Tropos, for Alvarion, and especially communities across
the
country.”
Tropos
MetroMesh is the world’s most deployed Wi-Fi mesh solution, offering
municipalities an economically compelling alternative for providing broadband
access to mobile municipal workers, residents and small businesses. Municipal
police, fire and EMS departments have been among the first to adopt metro-scale
Wi-Fi mesh networks. High-speed, in-field data access dramatically improves
public safety officer effectiveness and efficiency by getting critical
information in their hands on the street. Additionally, the open-standards
Wi-Fi access of the Tropos MetroMesh architecture allows diverse revenue
possibilities for municipal and service provider customers.
About
Tropos
Tropos
Networks is the proven leader in delivering ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi
mesh
network systems. Our mission is to enable wireless broadband access everywhere
for everyone through innovative, low-cost and simple products, software tools
and services. We have deployed larger and longer-operating systems in more
municipalities than any other company in our industry. Our unique expertise
includes high-performance mesh software development, mesh RF engineering,
metro-scale network planning, deployment and optimization, and navigating
the
municipal approval process. Tropos Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information, please visit www.tropos.com, call 408-331-6800
or write to info@tropos.com.
Tropos
Networks, Tropos, MetroMesh, PWRP and Metro-Scale Mesh Networking Defined
are
trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s).
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 2 million units deployed in 150 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.
Leading
the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven
product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands
with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of
business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality
telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community
interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and
data.
Alvarion
works with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners
to
support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile
challenges.
As
a
wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations
for more than 10 years from core technology developments to creating and
promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN
standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the
Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the
widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband
market
and leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.
For
more
information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at 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: 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
in
ability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising,
marketing, and technology providers and other risks detailed from time to
time
in 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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may
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contacting Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com
or
+1-650.314.2653.
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