Japanese Incumbent Beginning Broadband Deployment in Rural and Island Areas of Okinawa

August 24, 2006

Alvarion Ltd., announced that NTT West-Okinawa Corporation, a subsidiary of NTT West, has signed a supply agreement for its BreezeACCESS VL system. The Japanese incumbent is beginning a broadband deployment to serve the rural and island areas of Okinawa where wired infrastructure is too difficult and costly to deploy.

"We selected Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL after an extensive trial period," said Kenichi Honda, president of NTT West-Okinawa. "Given our island topography, we need a robust system that is easy to deploy and offers high quality services in non line-of-sight conditions. We are impressed with both the VL's overall performance and cost effectiveness, and the result is we now see a way to close the digital divide in our region."

BreezeACCESS VL's enhanced features such as OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS), extended reach of more than 30 kilometers (19 miles), high capacity, encryption and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms enable carriers, mobile operators, ISPs, enterprises and others can use the VL to provide triple play services to business and residential subscribers in the 5 GHz bands. With its advanced features such as 20 MHz channel spacing and automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) and its built-in spectrum analyzer to monitor the noise on each channel, BreezeACCESS VL enables greater flexibility in frequency planning.

"We are very excited to strengthen our relationship with NTT West-Okinawa, one of the world's largest incumbent carriers, as they deploy broadband services throughout Okinawa," said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "Our BreezeACCESS VL provides broadband with quality of service to thousands of users over large coverage areas and is an excellent choice for island terrain. This deployment is a direct result of our flexibility and investments in optimizing the VL for the local Japanese market."

With a per chassis maximum capacity on the base station of over 300 Mbps in a single 3U shelf, carriers offers subscribers up to 32 Mbps (net FTP). The BreezeACCESS VL is supported by AlvariSTAR™, a carrier-class network management system that simplifies network deployment and enables rapid expansion of a service provider’s customer base with effective fault management for quick resolution.