Form 6-K Report of Foreign Private Issuer for Alvarion Ltd.
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 January 2006
Commission
File Number: 0-30628
ALVARION
LTD.
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
21A
Habarzel Street, Tel Aviv 69710, Israel
(Address
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Press
release on FINNET
GROUP OPERATORS BUILDING WiMAX NETWORK USING ALVARION AND LOCAL
PARTNER
DAIMLER FINLAND,
dated January
4,
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.
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ALVARION
LTD. |
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| Date: January
4, 2006 |
By: |
/s/ Dafna
Gruber |
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Dafna
Gruber |
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Title:
Chief
Financial Officer |
EXHIBIT
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Contacts
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Dafna
Gruber, CFO
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Carmen
Deville
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+972
3 645 6252
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+760-517-3188
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+760-517-3187
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dafna.gruber@alvarion.com
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carmen.deville@alvarion.com
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FINNET
GROUP OPERATORS BUILDING WiMAX NETWORK USING ALVARION AND LOCAL PARTNER DAIMLER
FINLAND
BreezeMAX™
3500 Providing Broadband Services to Permanent and Summer Tourists in the Saimaa
Lake District in Southeastern Finland
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Tel
Aviv, Israel, January 4, 2006 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ:
ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, and its partner Daimler Finland, a local Finnish distributor, today
announced that two Finnet Group operators have begun deployment of a WiMAX
network using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX 3500. Savonlinnan Puhelin (SPY) and Mikkelin
Puhelin (MPY) will offer broadband data services to permanent residents and
the
large influx of summer tourists in
the
Saimaa Lake District, in the South Savo region of southeast Finland. As part
of
the government’s commitment to ‘universal broadband’, up to 29 percent of
funding for the network, known as the eSavo Project, is derived from the various
municipalities in the region and the European Union. The Finnet Group consists
of 37 telephone operating companies focuses primarily on local
telecommunications services.
“We
are
pleased to be working with Daimler Finland and Alvarion on a WiMAX network,
and
this network in Savo promises to be the largest broadband access network we
have
ever deployed in a rural area. Our solution was based on the successful
experiences of other Finnet operators with BreezeMAX in other regions of the
country,” said Mauri Valkonen, Chief of Department Network Services of MPY. “Our
overall target is to increase the broadband service coverage of households
and
businesses in the South Savo region from its current level of 70% to 96%, and
the eSavo Project is a key part of that effort,” said Ari Pussinen, Planning
Manager of SPY.
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.
“With
these new deployments, we have now implemented more than ten BreezeMAX networks
with Finnet Group operators throughout Finland,” said Janne Paldanius of Daimler
Finland. “Our partnership with Alvarion has been instrumental in closing the gap
of our country’s digital divide by increasing the overall number of homes and
businesses that benefit from broadband services in rural areas and we plan
to
continue to offer WiMAX technology to operators delivering broadband to the
unserved in Finland.”
Since
its
launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 140
installations throughout more than 30 countries around the world. This past
September, the BreezeMAX
PRO CPE using the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip became commercially
available and this deployment represents its first installation in
Finland.
“Alvarion’s
strong local partnership with Daimler Finland has yielded significant additional
deployments in Finland with the eSavo Project demonstrating the success of
public, private partnerships for broadband deployments,” said Tzvika Friedman,
CEO and President of Alvarion. “SPY and MPY are two examples of the many
operators worldwide now taking advantage of the opportunity to deploy the first
commercially available CPE that uses the Intel WiMAX chip. Given Savo’s combined
challenges of harsh winter weather and large influx of summer tourists, the
Saimaa Lake District networks demonstrate the robustness of BreezeMAX to
withstand the Scandinavian climate and scale quickly to support the influx
of
more than 40,000 tourists during the summer vacation season. Over the years,
Scandinavia and especially Finland, have been at the forefront of adopting
innovative wireless technologies, and we welcome their help now in leading
WiMAX
deployments there.”
About
Daimler Finland
Daimler
Finland Ltd, founded in 1993, is a privately owned information technology
company situated in Helsinki. The company offers products and services to
operators, ISPs, enterprises, the public sector and consumers. Specializing
in
broadband Internet access solutions the offer includes both wireless and wired
networks. For a decade now Daimler has delivered wireless networks to the
Finnish market, providing a large range of indoor, outdoor and public access
solutions on both licensed and license free frequencies. Daimler also operates
in Sweden, Denmark and the Baltic countries. www.daimler.fi
About
Finnet Group/SPY/MPY
Finnet
is
a Finnish data communications group that offers its customers local and national
voice call, data and digital television services. The first companies belonging
to the Finnet group were established over 120 years ago, only six years after
the telephone was invented. From the beginning, the companies have actively
participated in the development of Finnish data communication know-how and
have
thus strongly influenced the creation of a Finnish information society. Finnet
group consists of 37 locally operating telephone companies, Finnet Ltd and
Finnet Association. The total net sales of Finnet group in 2004 amounted to
EUR
1001 million, and it employs ca 5,100 people. Finnet’s main market area is
Finland.
Finnet
Ltd and its subsidiaries are responsible for the national business operations
of
Finnet group. Finnet’s telephone companies own Finnet Ltd.
Finnet
Association is a trade and operational political interest group and co-operation
forum of Finnet group, responsible for the supervision of the interests of
its
members both nationally and internationally.
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 2 million units deployed in 130 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
Alvarion’s
Press Contacts:
Heather
Mills
972.341.2512
hmills@golinharris.com
Bridget
Fishleigh
+44.127.362.4442
bridget@nomadcomms.com
Alvarion’s
Investor Contacts:
Dafna
Gruber, CFO
+972.3.645.6252
650.314.2652
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com
Carmen
Deville
650.314.2653
carmen.deville@alvarion.com