Alvarion Launches Two New WiMAX Platforms

Futurecom, Florianopolis, Brazil -- Alvarion Ltd. announced the availability of its BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 products with shipments expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. Employing the IEEE 802.16e standard, Alvarion is extending its BreezeMAX platform to address the 2.3 and 2.5 GHz bands available in North America and the rest of the world. The BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 are extensions of Alvarion's BreezeMAX platform, one of the first WiMAX systems to launch in 2004, and are targeted at carriers wanting to provide fixed, nomadic, portable and in the future, mobile applications in mass market, urban areas.

"The availability of BreezeMAX in 2.3 and 2.5 GHz is particularly important today as the market is looking to provide the full range of fixed to mobile connectivity," commented Phillip Marshall, vice president of Yankee Group Research Inc. "Alvarion has achieved many WiMAX milestones and this one should answer the needs in the U.S. WiMAX-hungry market, and in many other countries around the world."

Alvarion's WiMAX platform is designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and is a third-generation OFDM platform with advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer quadruple play broadband services over IP to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. BreezeMAX is now successfully deployed in over 180 installations in more than 80 countries around the world and is the radio access base station of the company's mobile WiMAX solution, 4Motion.

"These BreezeMAX 2300 and BreezeMAX 2500 products give carriers first-to-market advantage to start building their WiMAX customer base," said Rudy Leser, Alvarion's corporate vice president of strategy and marketing. "Based on the IEEE 802.16e standard, the systems are designed to enable carriers to offer full mobile services in the future, leveraging their current investment in BreezeMAX infrastructure. The many technological advances and vast field experience of BreezeMAX translate into immediate cost savings for service providers."

BreezeMAX is one of the key elements of Alvarion's 4Motion, which is a complete, end-to-end WiMAX solution, incorporating QoS mechanisms, IP mobility core components, and multimedia subsystems along with subscriber terminals, an NMS and northbound and backend interfaces. Designed to employ software defined radio (SDR), beam forming, multi-in multi-out (MIMO), dynamic bandwidth allocation, and scaleable OFDMA technologies, 4Motion with BreezeMAX as its base station offers service providers greater coverage, capacity, and flexibility in their mobile WiMAX deployments along with improved economics.

SOURCE: Alvarion, Ltd.