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Press
release on Alvarion Sees New Industry Milestone as
Australian Government Chooses
Wimax to Deploy Rural and Regional Broadband Network,
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June 28th, 2007.
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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:
June 28th,
2007 By:
/s/ Efrat
Makov
Name: Efrat Makov
Title: CFO
EXHIBIT
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Contacts
Efrat
Makov, CFO Claudia
Gatlin, Investor Relations
+972-3-645-6252 +212-830-9080
+760-517-3187 caudia.gatlin@alvarion.com
Efrat.makov@alvarion.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alvarion
Sees New Industry Milestone as Australian Government
Chooses
Wimax to Deploy Rural and Regional Broadband Network
Major
Broadband Infrastructure Project to Bring Advanced Services
to
Households
and Businesses across Australia
Tel
Aviv, Israel, June 28, 2007—Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the
world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, applauds the
Australian government’s support of WiMAX as part of its Federal Government
Broadband Connect project, which is aimed at further extending high-speed
affordable broadband services to all Australians. After a competitive
tender process, it awarded the project to OPEL Networks Pty Ltd (OPEL), jointly
owned by Elders, Australia’s leading rural and regional service provider, and
Optus, a leader in integrated communications in Australia.
OPEL’s
successful proposal followed 18 months of detailed work and evaluation including
equipment trials to verify that WiMAX represents an excellent choice for
low-density population areas like Australia. OPEL’s network is expected to cover
638,000 square kilometers and will extend across all Australian states and
territories. In addition to expanding ADSL2 installations, OPEL
expects to deploy over 1300 broadband wireless sites using technology based
on
WiMAX standards, each with a range of about 20 kilometers. The Australian
government requires the network to be built by mid-2009.
“Alvarion
is pleased that the Australian government is supporting WiMAX and congratulates
OPEL for being awarded such a visionary project,” said Tzvika Friedman president
and CEO of Alvarion. “This decision marks another important milestone in the
adoption of WiMAX and further validates its suitability for a variety of
applications, from bridging the digital divide by providing primary broadband
access in underserved areas, to enabling innovative new personal broadband
services.”
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion
(www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless
broadband network solutions enabling
Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and
mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.
Alvarion
is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with 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 personal mobile broadband, 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.
As
a
wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations
for over 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 Open WiMAX solutions.
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.
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.