Alvarion's New Breezenet B100 Achieves Breakthrough Speeds

May 16, 2006

Alvarion Ltd. announced that its new BreezeNET B100 has achieved breakthrough speeds and performance for point-to-point broadband access and backhaul applications. Available in Q3 2006, the B100 is a carrier class wireless bridging solution that operates in the licensed-exempt 5 GHz band and offers up to 108Mbps. The product addresses the growing market need for robust, high capacity systems to support real time video, voice, and data services and the backhauling of high performance WiMAX broadband access and other networks, including those built using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX™ and BreezeACCESS VL products.

"Today's need for increased bandwidth stems partly from municipalities and the public safety market demands, particularly in North America and Europe," said Esme Vos, founder of Muniwireless.com. "Broadband networks supplying these needs must combine high capacity, 100% reliable point-to-point bridging and backhauling at the right cost, and many times, operate in a licensed-exempt band."

Also targeting building-to-building enterprise connectivity, cellular backhaul, and high capacity access applications, such as real-time video, voice, and data services, the B100 is a field proven extension to Alvarion’s widely deployed BreezeNET B family of point-to-point solutions and already successful BreezeNET B14 and BreezeNET B28 products. Widely used also to deliver broadband services for government, other public sector customers, and public safety and homeland security uses such as video surveillance, highway patrol, vehicle tracking and video streaming, BreezeNET B products are sufficiently flexible and robust for most any deployment environment.