Form 6-K 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 February 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 IRISH
BROADBAND EXPANDS ITS NETWORK USING ALVARION WIMAX AND BROADBAND
WIRELESS
SYSTEMS
,
dated February 22, 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:
February 22, 2006
By:
/s/ Dafna Gruber
Name: Dafna
Gruber
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Title:
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Chief
Financial Officer
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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
IRISH
BROADBAND EXPANDS ITS NETWORK USING
ALVARION
WIMAX AND BROADBAND WIRELESS SYSTEMS
Recent
Orders Totaling Over $4 Million for
BreezeMAX™,
BreezeACCESS® VL, and WALKair 3000
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Tel
Aviv, Israel, February 22, 2006 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ:
ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced a major network expansion by current customer, Irish
Broadband, having received additional equipment orders totaling over $4 million
for systems to be delivered through the second quarter of 2006. This network
expansion enables Ireland’s leading, innovative wireless broadband service
provider to nearly double its subscriber base by expanding its network coverage
in Dublin and to eight other major cities in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
To
enable rapid growth and serve the full range of potential customers from
residences and SOHOs to medium and large businesses, Irish Broadband is
deploying broadband wireless equipment in both licensed and licensed-exempt
frequency bands, including Alvarion’s BreezeMAX™ 3500—the worldwide leading
WiMAX system, BreezeACCESS™ VL, and WALKair™3000 systems. This latest order
makes Alvarion Irish Broadband’s largest broadband wireless equipment supplier.
As
part
of its network expansion plans, Irish Broadband and Intel recently announced
a
major initiative for the immediate rollout of WiMAX networks using BreezeMAX,
which uses the BreezeMAX PRO, the world’s first CPE that uses the Intel WiMAX
chip, to eight of Ireland’s major urban centres. Included in the WiMAX launch
are the cities of Athlone, Arklow, Carlow, Ennis, Kilkenny, Letterkenny,
Newbridge, and Wexford.
“Once
we
complete our network expansion, Irish Broadband will be a major regional service
provider in Ireland offering thousands of subscribers the benefits of
broadband,” commented Paul Doody, Managing Director of Irish Broadband. “This
selection of Alvarion for both WiMAX and broadband wireless systems reflects
our
past successes with the company, its world class equipment and support, and
makes Alvarion our sole WiMAX systems provider. We are also excited to be part
of Intel’s worldwide WiMAX efforts, and in doing so, to be taking a leading role
in the global acceptance of WiMAX and its deployment by carriers everywhere.”
As
part
of their worldwide WiMAX project, Intel selected Irish Broadband as one of
sixteen strategic partners in sixteen countries to design, build and drive
the
development of WiMAX networks globally. Irish Broadband is the first company
in
this program to offer service on its WiMAX network.
BreezeMAX™
is Alvarion’s award winning, WiMAX platform that has been designed from the
ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards using 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 from 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.
“Since
2002, Irish Broadband has been very successful using our market-leading systems
to fill broadband coverage holes in Ireland," said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and
President of Alvarion. “As an ’innovative challenger’ evolving its network to
WiMAX, Irish Broadband is validating the coming growth in the broadband wireless
market due to WiMAX standards, and Alvarion's role in this network expansion
and
as their only WiMAX provider shows our continued market leadership in wireless
broadband. We are pleased that one of our key customers was chosen by Intel
to
be a strategic partner in its worldwide promotion and roll-out of WiMAX
services, and we remain committed to supporting such partnerships, including
the
30 other carrier customers now deploying Alvarion systems using the Intel chip.”
Alvarion’s
system for license exempt spectrum is the BreezeACCESS VL, offering enhanced
features such as OFDM for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) connections, extended reach
of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), high capacity, encryption, and quality
of service (QoS) mechanisms for carrier-class broadband data and voice services.
With its advanced features such as 10 and 20 MHz channels and automatic clear
channel selection (ACCS) with a built-in spectrum analyzer, BreezeACCESS VL
enables flexibility in frequency planning.
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.
In
July 2002, Irish Broadband received a license to operate wireless broadband
networks from Ireland’s ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation -
previously ODTR). Since then the company has deployed an aggressive network
rollout and customer acquisition.
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.
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 ten years from core technology developments to creating and
promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN
standards committees and experience deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's
prominent work in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing 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
+650.314.2653