Profile: ALVARIYON BE`AM (ALVR.O)

Alvarion Ltd. (Alvarion), incorporated in September 1992, is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of wireless products. The Company supplies carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and private network operators with solutions based on the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) standard, as well as other wireless broadband solutions. It is the provider of WiMAX and non-WiMAX wireless broadband systems, having launched 250 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide. Alvarion’s solutions are designed to cover a range of frequency bands with fixed, portable and mobile applications, to enable the delivery of personal broadband services, business and residential broadband access, corporate virtual private network (VPN), toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, and services for various vertical markets, such as municipalities, public safety, mining, oil and gas, utilities, video surveillance and border control.

BreezeMAX Platforms

The Company’s WiMAX-based BreezeMAX Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) (BreezeMAX) platforms are designed from the ground-up according to the IEEE 802.16 standard. BreezeMAX platforms feature advanced orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) technologies to support non-line-of-sight (NLOS) operation, adaptive modulation up to quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)64 and spectral efficiency available. Commercially available and operating in the 2.3, 2.3 wireless control system (WCS), 2.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6 and 5.2 gigahertz licensed frequency bands, BreezeMAX meets the customer demand for broadband wireless systems with a platform designed around the implementation of the IEEE 802.16 and HiperMAN standards by the WiMAX Forum. The BreezeMAX carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer quadruple play (meaning broadband data, voice, mobility and multi-media) services to thousands of subscribers in a single-base station.

4Motion Solution

The Company’s mobile WiMAX solution, called 4Motion, is an end-to-end mobile WiMAX solution. The solution portfolio was developed in conjunction with providers of core network and Internet protocol (IP) technology, devices and integration services and its evolution is under continuous development. 4Motion offers an open, end-to-end and carrier-class mobile broadband data solution that delivers personal broadband services of several megabits per second per subscriber or more.

Wireless Broadband Access Solutions

Alvarion provides a range of integrated fixed wireless broadband solutions, addressing different markets and frequency bands, designed for the various business models of carriers, service providers and private network operators. The Company’s products are usually used in a point-to-multipoint architecture and address a scope of end-user profiles, including residential, small office/home office (SOHO), small/medium enterprises (SME), multi-tenant/multi-dwelling units (MTU/MDU) and large enterprises (corporate). Its products operate in licensed and license-free bands, ranging from 900 megahertz to 28 gigahertz. Its core technologies include spread spectrum radio, linear radio, digital signal processing, modems, media access control (MAC), IP-based mobile switches, networking protocols and very large systems integration (VLSI).

BreezeACCESS enables fixed high-speed data and voice, point-to-multipoint wireless broadband applications. BreezeACCESS access products operate in several frequency bands to meet the needs of service providers and telecom operators worldwide. The BreezeACCESS product family consists of base stations, including access units and controllers, and subscriber units. The subscriber units include subscriber units for data applications and subscriber units for data and telephony applications. BreezeACCESS orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) products support fixed higher speed wireless broadband access products in the licensed 3.5 gigahertz band, and they provide gross data rates of up to 12 megabits per seconds.

BreezeACCESS VL, OFDM-based fixed products operate in the 0.9, 4.9, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7 gigahertz bands, which are mostly unlicensed, and provide gross data rates of up to 54 megabits per second. BreezeACCESS wireless DSL products include BreezeACCESS II, BreezeACCESS XL, BreezeACCESS VL and BreezeACCESS OFDM. BreezeACCESS II products operate in the unlicensed 2.4-gigahertz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band, and provide gross data rates of up to three megabits per second.

The Company's BreezeNET B products are designed to provide building-to-building bridging solutions, support mobile connectivity and provide individuals or small groups of users with wireless access to a local area network (LAN). BreezeNET B products function as a wireless bridge system that provides connectivity. The BreezeNET B system operates in the unlicensed five gigahertz band and enables operation in environments, such as buildings, foliage or ridgelines. The system also features adaptive modulation for automatic selection of modulation schemes. The system supports Virtual Local Networks (VLANs), which enable secure operation, and VPN services.

The enhanced MultiGain (eMGW) solutions are point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access systems that provide data and voice services for both residential and small business users, mainly in suburban and rural environments. Utilizing radio links instead of copper lines to bridge the last mile, the MGW and eMGW products enable deployment of quality services to residential or SOHO customers. The products ensure the optimal utilization of the available spectrum and minimum interference, regardless of topography. eMGW, which has a scalable and modular architecture, is comprised of an indoor base station controller, an outdoor base station radio, an indoor subscriber interface and an outdoor subscriber terminal. It also includes a network planning tool and a network management system featuring fault, configuration, performance and security management.

The WALKair system is a wireless broadband system that enables carriers to provide high-speed Internet access, other data services and voice services primarily to SMEs. Alvarion's WALKair products consist of WALKair 1000 that operates in the 3.5, 10.5 and 26 gigahertz licensed bands, and WALKair 3000 that operates in the 3.5, 10.5, 26 and 28-gigahertz band. WALKair products are based on time division multiplexing (TDM) technology. WALKair systems support a complement of services, including VPN, virtual local area of network (VLAN) and QoS, based on per-user allocation of committed data rate and maximum data rate.

WALKair 3000 accommodates carriers' requirements for broader bandwidth. It also enables carriers to connect multiple subscribers in multi-tenant buildings by a single terminal station. WALKair 3000 supports significantly broader bandwidth for each customer and increased capacity for each cell, increasing the peak speed of transmission of each terminal station to up to 36 megabits per second. WALKair 3000 integrates with WALKair 1000. This enables carriers to deploy both systems on the same base station, serving a variety of subscribers with different needs for communication services, within the same cell.

Network Management Solutions for WiMAX and Non-WiMAX Wireless Broadband

Alvarion provides advanced management applications for its wireless solutions. Its network management applications are equipped with graphics-based user interfaces and provide a set of tools for configuring, monitoring and managing its wireless broadband networks. The Company's carrier-class network management system is the AlvariSTAR, which simplifies network deployment and maintenance for networks of every scale. AlvariSTAR can be used to manage multiple Alvarion products, including BreezeMAX, 4Motion, BreezeACCESS VL and BreezeNET B. The Company’s portfolio of network management products include AlvariSTAR, which configures, monitors and manages its BreezeMAX, 4Motion and BreezeACCESS products; WALKnet, which configures, monitors and manages its WALKair products, and IMS, which configures, monitors and manages itseMGW product.

Accessories

In order to support its products and provide solutions to its customers, the Company provides a family of accessories designed to extend the range of BreezeMAX, 4Motion, BreezeACCESS, WALKair and BreezeNET solutions. These accessories include antennas, cables, surge arrestors, amplifiers and other components.

The Company competes with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Huawei Technologies, Motorola, NEC Corporation, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung, ZTE Corporation, Airspan Inc., Ericsson, Redline Communications, Aperto Networks and SR Telecom.