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Alvarion ltd.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: ALVR)
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
Key people	Tzvi Friedman^[1]
Industry	Electronics
Products	Wireless Communications
Revenue	▲ US$ 281.28 million (2008)
Employees	1,043^[1]
Website	www.alvarion.com

Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR, TASE:ALVR) is a leading provider of WiMAX and non-WiMAX wireless broadband systems to carriers, ISPs and private network operators around the world. The company has offices in 23 countries; the corporate headquarters is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company directly employs 1000 people worldwide and reported net revenue of US$ 281.28 million for the year ended December 31, 2008.

1 History
2 Products and Technology
3 References
4 External links

History

Alvarion was originally incorporated as BreezeCOM Ltd. in September, 1992. In August, 2001, BreezeCOM was merged with another Israeli company, Floware Wireless Systems Ltd., and changed its name to Alvarion. They acquired InnoWave Ltd. in April, 2003.

Finally, with the acquisition of interWAVE Communications International Ltd., completed in December, 2004, Alvarion expanded into the mobile GSM equipment market and gained expertise in mobile systems. Most of the interWAVE operations became their Cellular Mobile business unit, which was sold to LGC Wireless, Inc. in November, 2006.^[2]. In February 2009, Alvarion announced that it was hired by Orange Botswana for turnkey WiMAX deployment, initially to cover Botswana’s two largest cities Gaborone and Francistown^[3].

Products and Technology

Alvarion was one of the first companies to produce IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN equipment and made a major contribution to the development of the IEEE 802.11 standard itself. In collaboration with the Swedish Space Corporation and using its own BreezeNET DS.11 product, it also claims to hold a World record of longest Wireless LAN link ever achieved - 310km from ground to a weather balloon (although it has been heavily amplified, used a huge dish antenna, and had an automatic tracking system).^[4] ^[5] This record is not found in The Guinness Book of Records, however.

Alvarion is also active in the development of the new IEEE 802.16x WiMAX standards and is one of the first manufacturers to offer mobile WiMAX systems.