UNITED STATES
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 December 2004
Commission File Number: 0-30628
ALVARION LTD.
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1. Press release, dated December 29, 2004 4
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SIGNATURES
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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.
ALVARION LTD.
Date: December 31, 2004 By: /s/ Dafna Gruber
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Name: Dafna Gruber
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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EXHIBIT 1
Contacts
Dafna Gruber, CFO Carmen Deville
+972 3 645 6252 +760-517-3188
+760-517-3187
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com carmen.deville@alvarion.com
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KENYA DATA NETWORKS EXPANDS ITS WIRELESS BROADBAND
NETWORKS WITH ADDITIONAL ALVARION EQUIPMENT
Operator Also Planning Small BreezeMAX(TM) Deployment
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TEL AVIV, Israel, December 29, 2004 -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's
leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and a supplier of specialized
mobile networks for hard to serve areas, today announced that Kenya Data
Networks Ltd. (KDN), a subsidiary of Kenya's Sameer ICT Group, has ordered
approximately $900 thousand of Alvarion BreezeACCESS(TM) OFDM and WALKair(TM)
products to expand its existing broadband wireless networks and implement a
small deployment of BreezeMAX 3500. With these network deployments, KDN, a data
communications carrier, is now emerging as a local loop operator.
"We have found that wireless broadband is the only way to ensure affordable
communication services for the greatest number of Kenya's population, both
residential and commercial users." said Mr. Kai Wulff, Managing Director of KDN.
"Alvarion's wireless technology has been very successful for us in the past and
obviously, this is the key factor in our choice to continue using Alvarion
equipment to expand our networks. Very shortly, we will also be assessing the
viability of using Alvarion's WiMAX solution to provide voice services via VoIP
in rural areas as well."
Alvarion's WALKair 1000 in the KDN network serves as the ideal broadband access
system for servicing business customers of all sizes, including banks,
universities and corporations, offering them one point of access for all their
business communication services, including Internet access, virtual private
networks (VPNs), leased lines, ethernet, and frame relay, all with enhanced
capacity and wide coverage. As an overlay network, the BreezeACCESS OFDM enables
KDN to offer broadband network access to ISPs for additional revenue with
minimal investment.
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BreezeMAX is Alvarion's third-generation OFDM platform with advanced
non-line-of-sight functionality. Its carrier-class design supports high quality
of service (QoS) and broadband speeds to enable carriers to offer both data and
toll-quality voice to thousands of subscribers in a single cell.
"KDN's network expansion reflects Alvarion's philosophy that wireless broadband
is the best economic alternative to traditional wired access, especially for
areas with little existing telecommunications infrastructure." said Zvi
Slonimsky CEO of Alvarion "Building on that idea, we are quite pleased to be
assisting KDN with their move to next generation solutions with an upcoming
deployment of our BreezeMAX 3500 for evaluation as a solution for both voice and
data over IP. More and more, emerging carriers such as KDN are appreciating the
business case that WiMAX networks will be able to offer."
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Kenya Data Networks Ltd. (KDN)
KDN is a public data network operators in Kenya. KDN was established early in
2003 in the wake of the liberalization of the Kenyan telecommunications market
by the Sameer Group, a major Kenyan conglomerate and a pioneer provider of
affordable, mobile, telephone services in Kenya. Having invested approximately
$10 million in sophisticated data communications infrastructure, in July 2003
KDN launched commercial Leased Line, Frame Relay, and IP Data services aimed at
businesses and large institutions in Nairobi and other areas of Kenya. For more
information, see www.kdn.co.ke and www.sameer-group.com
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. Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most
extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the
full range of frequency bands. 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, and public safety communications. Alvarion works with several
top OEM providers and over 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 over 10 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 ForumTM is focused on increasing widespread adoption
of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market.
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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
+1-760-517-3188.
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