UNITED STATES
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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 February 2006
Commission File Number: 0-30628
ALVARION LTD.
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Press release on Innovative Carriers
Demonstrate Pan European Wimax Services
using Alvarion's Breezemax
, dated February 13, 2006 4
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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: February 13, 2006 By: /s/ Dafna Gruber
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Name: Dafna Gruber
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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EXHIBIT 1
Contacts
Dafna Gruber, CFO Carmen Deville
+972 3 645 6252 .. +760-517-3188
+760-517-3187
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com carmen.deville@alvarion.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INNOVATIVE CARRIERS DEMONSTRATE PAN EUROPEAN WIMAX
SERVICES USING ALVARION'S BREEZEMAX
Multimedia WiMAX Applications Being Demonstrated During 3GSM
by Three Carriers with Commercial BreezeMAX(TM) Networks
Barcelona, Spain, February 13, 2006 - While activity bustles on the show floor
at the 3GSM World Congress here, three innovative carriers, who currently
operate commercial WiMAX networks using Alvarion's (NASDAQ: ALVR) BreezeMAX
system, will be demonstrating the delivery of pan European multimedia services
over wireless broadband. Iberbanda (Spain), Irish Broadband (Ireland) and
MobileCity (Sweden)--all of whom have also deployed the BreezeMAX PRO CPE using
the Intel WiMAX chip--are linking up their networks to give a glimpse of WiMAX
services to press and government authorities. The demonstration will be held in
the Pueblo Espanol Castle of Barcelona on Wednesday, February 15th, beginning at
13:45.
"This is another significant WiMAX milestone for Alvarion as the first vendor to
support continent-wide commercial WiMAX services," said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and
President of Alvarion. "Participants will witness first hand the quality of
service, reliability, and product quality that has made BreezeMAX the WiMAX
platform of choice in more than 150 deployments worldwide. `Broadband
everywhere' services enabled by WiMAX will improve everyone's lifestyles and
productivity, and this demonstration is the start of that reality and part of
our all IP, Personal Broadband vision for the telecommunications industry going
forward."
BreezeMAX, Alvarion's WiMAX platform, was 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
150 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.
Participating in the 3GSM World Congress being held February 13-16, 2006, in
Barcelona, Spain, Alvarion's booth is located in Hall 2 (#F10a).
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About Iberbanda
Iberbanda is an innovative broadband communications provider utilizing wireless
local loop technology in its own access network deployed in Spain. The company
offers managed bandwidth services plus a new generation of telephony, Internet
access, hosting, data transmission and online IT solutions. Iberbanda is a
member of WiMAX Forum. For more information, please visit www.iberbanda.es
About Irish Broadband
Irish Broadband is a subsidiary of NTR plc, Ireland's leading private sector
developer, financier and operator of public and environmental infrastructure.
Irish Broadband obtained a telecommunications licence from the Office of the
Director of Telecommunications (ComReg) in July 2002 and began customer
connections in August 2002. Irish Broadband currently holds 3.5GHz spectrum
licenses in 27 regions around Ireland including Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway,
Waterford, Drogheda and Dundalk, Athlone, Arklow, Ennis, Kilkenny, Letterkenny,
Newbridge, Portlaoise, Wexford and Carlow. For more information, visit
www.irishbroadband.ie
About MobileCity
MobileCity is a profit and competence center in Skellefte, Sweden, where
industrial businesses and universities collaborate on research and product
development within one of the most expansive and exciting fields in today's
world: wireless communications. MobileCity is located close to Campus Skellefte,
a melting pot for innovative businesses and universities. For more information,
visit www.mobilecity.se
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.
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(TM) 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
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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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