Alvarion Announces a WiMAX 4Motion Pilot at 3.5 GHz Frequency Band with French Operator Bolloré Telecom in Marina Port Vauban in the South of France
Alvarion(R) and Bolloré Telecom Run 4G Mobile WiMAX 802.16e Pilot at France’s Cote d’Azur
French operator creates a testbed for broadband access with Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX 4Motion(R) solution
Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR – News), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced a WiMAX pilot with French operator Bolloré telecom in Marina Port Vauban in the south of France. The pilot is based on Alvarion’s end-to-end mobile WiMAX 4Motion(R) solution operating at 3.5 GHz frequency band.
The pilot is conducted in cooperation with the Antibes municipalities and will showcase Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion solution integrated with the Service Controller (AAA) from Bridgewater Systems (TSX:BWC – News). Bolloré telecom will pilot a variety of applications including internet access, video streaming and VoIP services to docked boats located in the marina, as well as the surrounding beach, school and municipal buildings. In addition, video surveillance applications will be tested at Port Vauban using camera from Axis.
“This collaboration highlights our interest in the various broadband applications and rich user experience enabled by 4G”, said Dominique Roux, Chairman of Bolloré telecom. “This pilot is commissioned as part of Bolloré telecom’s forward planning to spread wireless broadband to a large part of the country. It demonstrates the capabilities of WiMAX technology and provides a peak into Bolloré telecom’s planned initiatives to bring cutting edge broadband communications to France.”
The live pilot will connect many USB devices and PC cards given to owners of docked boats in the marina. The pilot, which could potentially extend to an additional 350 marinas in France, aims to demonstrate the next generation wireless applications to tourists, visitors and local businesses in the area.
“The pilot is conducted using Alvarion’s end-to-end mobile WiMAX solution that consists of latest technology and feature sets,” said Tzvika Friedman, CEO of Alvarion. “Bolloré telecom’s planned network makes an excellent platform to test the delivery of cutting edge WiMAX services. This test network will allow people to experience a variety of wireless broadband services in real time.”
About Bolloré telecom
Bolloré telecom is a global mobile broadband operator with operations in France through licenses at 3,5GHz covering 20 out of 22 regions, and Western Africa. Bolloré telecom’s project is to offer a large scale coverage for both outdoor and indoor broadband access, hence delivering the first qualitative and capacitive answer to the 4G revolution.
About Alvarion
Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR – News) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of business cases. Through its OPEN WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy end-to-end turnkey WiMAX projects, Alvarion is shaping the new wireless broadband experience (www.alvarion.com).
