Form 6K Report of Foreign Private Issuer
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Form
6-K
REPORT
OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT
TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the
month of December 2006
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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Press
release on ALVARION
INTRODUCES A NEW CONVERGED WIMAX WI-FI SOLUTION TO DELIVER PERSONAL
BROADBAND SERVICES dated
December
6,
2006
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SIGNATURES
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.
ALVARION
LTD.
Date:
December 6th, 2006
By:
/s/ Dafna
Gruber
Name: Dafna
Gruber
Title: CFO
EXHIBIT
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Contacts
Dafna
Gruber, CFO Carmen
Deville
+972
3
645 6252 +760-517-3188
+760-517-3187
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com
carmen.deville@alvarion.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALVARION
INTRODUCES A NEW CONVERGED WIMAX WI-FI SOLUTION
TO
DELIVER PERSONAL BROADBAND SERVICES
BreezeMAX™
WI2,
along with BreezeACCESS™WI2,
Enable Service Providers To
Address
Consumer And Business/Government Segments For
Bandwidth-Intensive,
Mobile
Applications
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TEL
AVIV, Israel, December 06, 2006 — Alvarion Ltd.
(NASDAQ:ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today introduced two new converged solutions combining Wi-Fi
functionality with both WiMAX and pre-WiMAX products. The BreezeMAX
WI2
and
BreezeACCESS WI2
enable
carriers to capture additional revenues, while moving towards advanced Personal
Broadband services, providing a powerful cost-effective, converged network
that
combines high performance Wi-Fi portability for IEEE 802.11b/g devices with
WiMAX quality-of-service (QoS).
Each
WI2
solution
consists of an outdoor Wi-Fi access point with integrated power module capable
of connecting to various commercial power sources, either a BreezeMAX or
BreezeACCESS VL unit for backhaul and network management software.
As
a
fully ruggedized, all-outdoor Wi-Fi access point solution for hot zone
applications, service providers now deploying WiMAX networks can extend their
BreezeMAX networks in 2.3, 2.5 or 3.X GHz and BreezeACCESS VL networks in 5
GHz
with Wi-Fi hot spot coverage. The result is full support in a single broadband
network for both WiMAX users and subscribers using standard Wi-Fi devices such
as laptops, PDAs, smart-phones, and portable gaming devices.
“Wi-Fi
supported by WiMAX QoS answers the many demands of both public and private
sector including public broadband access, traffic management, video
surveillance, connecting city offices, homeland security, as well as growing
number of Personal Broadband applications,” said Rudy Leser, Alvarion's
corporate vice president of strategy and marketing. “And with both
WI2
products,
existing broadband wireless operators can now leverage their current
infrastructure to capture consumer and business/government segments for
bandwidth-intensive applications in a mobile environment. This gives them an
early market advantage towards mobile broadband services and the offering of
Personal Broadband.”
BreezeMAX
is Alvarion’s award-winning WiMAX Forum Certified™ platform designed from the
ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for
advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design
supports broadband speeds and QoS to enable carriers to offer triple play
broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since
its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 180
installations in more than 80 countries around the world.
BreezeACCESS
VL’s enhanced features such as OFDM NLOS, extended reach of more than 30
kilometers (19 miles), very high throughputs in all packet sizes, advanced
encryption, VLANs and QoS mechanisms enable carriers, mobile operators, ISPs,
enterprises and others to use the VL to provide triple play services to business
and residential subscribers in the 5 GHz bands.
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is the world’s leading
provider of innovative wireless network solutions enabling personal broadband
services to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data,
VoIP, video and other applications. Providing systems to carriers, ISPs and
private network operators, the company supplies solutions in both developed
and
developing countries.
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.
You
may
request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by
contacting
Carmen
Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com
or
+1-650.314.2653.
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