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 August 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 WIMAX
TELECOM SELECTS ALVARION TO EXPAND ITS WIMAX NETWORKS IN AUSTRIA,
SLOVAKIA
Pan
European WiMAX Carrier Uses BreezeMAX™ 3500 to Offer Toll Quality Voice
and Broadband Data Services to Residential and Other Subscribers,
dated
August
15,
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:
August 15, 2006 By:
/s/ Dafna
Gruber
Name: Dafna
Gruber
Title:
Chief
Financial Officer
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
WIMAX
TELECOM SELECTS ALVARION TO EXPAND ITS WIMAX
NETWORKS
IN AUSTRIA, SLOVAKIA
Pan
European WiMAX Carrier Uses BreezeMAX™ 3500 to Offer Toll Quality
Voice
and
Broadband Data Services to Residential and Other
Subscribers
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TEL
AVIV, Israel, August 15, 2006 — Alvarion Ltd.
(NASDAQ:ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that WiMAX Telecom AG, the first pan European WiMAX
carrier, has again selected its BreezeMAX 3500 expanding its WiMAX networks
in
Austria and Slovakia. Upon acquiring its nationwide 3.5 GHz license last year,
WiMAX Telecom first began building its WiMAX network with Alvarion's BreezeMAX
and now plans to deploy more than 10,000 additional BreezeMAX PRO CPEs by the
end of 2006.
“Expanding
our networks using Alvarion’s WiMAX systems makes good business sense for us,”
said Dov
Bar-Gera, chairman of WiMAX Telecom AG. “Last year, we first selected BreezeMAX
because it met our extensive requirements and rigid evaluation as a robust
system to handle our sometimes inclement local weather, conditions in the
landscapes of Austria and Slovakia. Building on our initial success, we look
forward to additional roll outs of WiMAX services in other regions where we
hold
3.5GHz licenses.”
BreezeMAX
is Alvarion’s award-winning WiMAX 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 quality of service (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.
"WiMAX
Telecom is part of a new breed of ‘innovative challenger’ carriers who are
leveraging the advanced technological and economic benefits of WiMAX to build
broadband networks quickly and cost effectively,” commented Tzvika Friedman,
president and CEO of Alvarion. “We are pleased with their success using
BreezeMAX to offer broadband data and toll quality voice services to their
subscribers. Our continuing innovation and leadership in WiMAX worldwide,
coupled with the network building activities of forward thinking carriers such
as WiMAX Telecom, means that the mass availability of broadband services and
personal broadband services is fast approaching."
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About
WiMAX Telecom
WiMAX
Telecom AG is the holding company for the Austrian WiMAX Telecom GmbH, the
Slovakian WiMAX Telecom s.r.o. and the Croatian WiMAX Telecom d.o.o. The WiMAX
services include wireless Internet access, VoIP telephony and "last mile
alternatives" for private and business customers.
www.wimax-telecom.net
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 also supplies solutions to extend 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.
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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