NOKIA AND ALVARION TO MOBILE WIMAX

Alvarion announced today that it has agreed to expand their OEM agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia Siemens Networks will resell Alvarion’s latest Mobile WiMAX solutions to Nokia Siemens Networks’ current and prospective WiMAX customers. Nokia currently has WiMAX in 14 countries.

Nokia Siemens Networks will resell the Alvarion 4Motion® Mobile WiMAX Solution, including the BreezeMAX base stations, ASN Gateways and 4Motion Element Management System. Nokia’s WiMAX architecture (pdf) supports “open” R6 architecture between ASN Gateways and basestations, as does Alvarion.

Alvarion’s Star Management Suite is designed to manage complete WiMAX network infrastructure, enabling operators to simplify management of IP services such as VoIP and IPTV while enhancing quality of service in a centralized, integrated manner.

The company will also provide deployment, management and maintenance services for the products and leverage its multi-vendor capabilities. Alvarion and Nokia Siemens Networks are already cooperating on WiMAX projects under this expanded agreement. Nokia’s OEM agreement with Alvarion will keep NSN in the WiMAX ball game. And the mobile WiMAX market is likely to be significant, even if LTE eventually dominates broadband wireless, as Nokia believes.

Nokia Siemens Networks originally said they would be a major player in WiMAX, and was one of Clear’s three major suppliers, but has recently largely abandoned their own WiMAX development in favor of LTE. There is clear difference between the WiMAX and LTE in terms business focus. WiMAX is focused on internet access and LTE is focused on voice.

Alvarion’s similar OEM agreement with Nortel Networks ended with Alvarion getting stung on payment, after shipping a ton of equipment to Nortel.

On January 14, 2009, Nortel filed for protection from creditors in order to restructure its debt and financial obligations. At its height, Nortel accounted for more than a third of the total valuation of all the companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Nortel’s market capitalization fell from C$398 billion in September 2000 to less than $5 billion in August 2002, and their stock price plunged from C$124 to $0.47.

This week, Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson said it is in the bidding for Nortel’s mobile network unit. Ericsson reportedly submitted a bid worth $730 million, competing with a $650 million bid from Nokia Siemens Networks for Nortel’s CDMA and LTE wireless technology businesses. RIM had said it was prepared to pay up to $1.1 billion for Nortel’s wireless business and other undisclosed assets, but had been prevented from participating in the auction unless it agreed to refrain from bidding on other Nortel assets. On July 28, a judge at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware will decide on which bidder should get the assets. A similar hearing in Canada is scheduled for July 30.

ALVARION WIMAX GOES

Italy Unwired by Alvarion WiMAX

Alvarion announced today an agreement with Italy telecom operator Aria to deploy Mobile WiMAX throughout Italy. The network will be at the 3.5 GHz frequency to offer broadband services to all 21 regions in Italy using Alvarion’s 4Motion Mobile WiMAX solution.

Italy’s 58 million highly-dense population makes WiMAX the most economical and high-performance technology says the company. Alvarion’s 4Motion is an advanced and field-proven solution for delivering innovative WiMAX services for a range of broadband applications in rural, suburban and urban environments.

Aria currently holds nationwide WiMAX licenses at the 3.5 GHz frequency bands in Italy. By using Alvarion’s Open WiMAX solution, Aria will be able to meet the growing demand for broadband services in the country.

Mobile WiMAX is usually implemented on the 2.3 or 2.6 GHz band, so this network is somewhat unusual. Almost all licenses for 3.5 GHz spectrum in Europe currently restrict usage to fixed or nomadic services (not mobile). Few countries allow the spectrum to be used for mobility services, and other countries are in various stages of planning to open the frequencies for such usage.

Aria S.P.A., founded in 2005, has become one of the most important Italian Wireless Internet Service Providers. In January 2008, Aria won the auction of 3.5GHz radio frequencies in all Italian regions.

Telecom Italia (TI) and Aria signed an agreement to collaborate over WiMAX distribution, enabling the companies to extend access to broadband services in areas not yet reached by ADSL-based services. The agreement grants Aria the right to use TI’s 3.5GHz band frequency allocation in nine central and southern regions of the country (Abruzzo, Umbria, Lazio, Molise, Puglia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Sardinia).

In return TI will be able to supply its own customers with WiMAX services via Aria’s nationwide ‘white label’ wholesale offering. TI is Italy’s foremost broadband network, with 36 million subscribers and more than 7 million domestic broadband connections, according to research by Hoover’s.

Although Alvarion did not release the dollar value of the deal, market sources estimate it at $20 million, over three years. Alvarion has signed six contracts since the beginning of the month. The company has an orders backlog of over $100 million.

Alvarion, Open Range To Build 17 State Net

Alvarion, the world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, today announced it was selected by U.S. broadband wireless operator, Open Range Communications, for the nation’s largest Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funded deployment spanning 17 states, 546 rural communities, and reaching up to 6 million people. With this new broadband wireless network, Open Range will begin offering state-of-the-art 4G services to un-served and underserved customers across rural America in the fourth quarter of this year.

Under the terms of the contract, expected to be more than US$100 million over five years, Alvarion will provide radio access equipment, customer devices (CPE) and systems integration.

Some of the unique attributes available through this “always on” wireless broadband network include:

• Simple and instant service activation
• Voice and data capabilities
• WiFi for connectivity to existing PCs
• Highly secure network communication

Based on Alvarion’s WiMAX Forum Certified 802.16e BreezeMAX solution, the new Open Range 4G network, will give millions of rural Americans wireless broadband services where they live and work.

“Open Range’s unique business model focuses on delivering wireless high-speed Internet and voice services to un-served and underserved communities,” said Open Range founder and CEO, Bill Beans Jr.

Alvarion was the first WiMAX equipment supplier to receive USDA acceptance as well as “Buy American” status from the USDA RUS for two of its BreezeMAX base stations in July 2008. Both RUS and “Buy American” designations are required for operators requesting federal funds from the Rural Broadband Access Loan program for the purpose of purchasing and deploying broadband systems.

Alvarion offers a complete line of RUS-accepted solutions with “Buy American” status using a range of unlicensed, semi-licensed and licensed frequencies. Alvarion says you can build your rural wireless network using 3.65, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 4.9, 2.3 or 2.5 GHz and qualify for funding by using RUS-accepted Alvarion solutions if you are currently working on projects to bring wireless broadband access to rural communities or have plans to develop such projects.

Within the next five years, Open Range intends to serve 546 communities with portable and eventually mobile voice and Internet services, making its services initially available to approximately six million people. In addition to portability, they will offer a minimum speeds of 1.5 Mbps down and 512 kbps up for less than $40 per month with voice less than $30 per month, including unlimited nationwide calling.

NORTEL AND ALVARION AGREEMENT

Nortel Networks now plans to focus on LTE, with WiMax products being dropped in favor of working with Alvarion for WiMAX products, the company announced today.

Nortel Networks has been a world-class leader in WiMAX, especially high-speed OFDMA and MIMO technology, but missed out on being a tier one provider for the big Sprint/Clearwire network, which is going with Motorola, Samsung and Nokia to execute their multi-billion dollar vision in the United States.

But the development of LTE (Long Term Evolution) has accelerated and Nortel’s expertise in COFDM and MIMO can largely be tranfered to that technology. Motorola says it will reuse 85 percent of their WiMax research in its LTE products.

Most major wireless carriers are skipping WiMax and planning to build out networks using LTE, which is a successor to current cellular technology.

Nortel’s WiMAX offering will combine Alvarion’s advanced radio access network technology with Nortel’s core network solutions, including backhaul, applications and professional services. Nortel’s network consulting, design and network management software will also be included.

Two group of vendors have announced patent-licensing plans recently, notes RCR News.

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A WiMAX network built using equipment from Alvarion's award-winning WiMAX solution, BreezeMAX

After evaluating WiMAX equipment offered by all major vendors, DBC chose Alvarion's 802.16e BreezeMAX platform for the 2.5 GHz network that went live in Rexburg, Idaho in June 2007 and was one of the first commercial WiMAX networks in the USA. Selling under the brand name BridgeMAXX, the service is sold online, over the phone, and at a number of local retail locations. Within just three months, DBC had achieved 7.5% penetration of covered households with 78% of users installing the equipment at home. The vast majority of early users are residential via desktops and laptops; many are already moving their devices around their homes and treating the network as portable.

WIMAX RESEARCH DEPENDED ON ALVARION BREEZEMAX

American Ball State University and Office of Wireless Research and Mapping (OWRM) have done great research and test on Alvarion award winner BreezeMAX 3500 WiMax serie product in the United States. This OWRM work will determine that how the BreezeMAX equipment's performance possibility and feasibility works in a real life. The project covered Midwest community which has a lot of trees and clutter by 120 sectoral antenna and provided 1.5km for Indoor Units (Si CPE) and 10 or more km for Outdoor Units (Pro CPE). Proudly they did Home Test including Building Type, Location CPE Indoor, Location CPE Outdoor, Weather Condition, Surrounding Environment, Site Distance from base station, Speed and QoS of Data, VoIP, Video Streaming connection, Signal strength Download and Upload RSSI, SNR in 94 different locations.

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WHAT IS WIMAX OEM?

OEM is Original Equipment Manufacturer.
OEM is the company that originally manufactured the product. When a company purchases products or components from another company and resells the products or components with the purchasing company's name or logo on them (usually, but not always as part of a product), the company that resells the product is called the OEM.

Nowdays a big players who wanted to join the WiMax business they don't want to start it from the first, for the telecommunications equipment manufacturers best way is just buy a small company which is growing fast or do agreement OEM with a big company who is doing this business successfully. That's why now every big companies doing this business even never done before access network system.
For example such as Sprint-Nextel and Motorola, Nokia corporations now started to doing WiMax business already.


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Nortel announced cooperation with LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company in mobile WiMAX, although it is not clear what stage development has reached. In addition, Nortel is also cooperating with Airspan in fixed WiMAX. The chances that Nortel will acquire Alvarion are therefore not great. Motorola plans to reach the mobile WiMAX market with its own product, and development is in full swing. Ericsson has a strategic cooperation agreement with Airspan, as well as its own expertise in wireless communications. It is therefore reasonable to assume that it will want to develop its own mobile WiMAX system. At the same time, it is not clear what stage its development has reached, so the possibility of Ericsson acquiring Alvarion cannot be ruled out.

Alcatel, which has an OEM agreement with Alvarion in fixed WiMAX, has announced that it plans to develop its own mobile WiMAX system. Siemens is ostensibly the best candidate for becoming the lawful wedded husband of Alvarion, particularly because its infrastructure lacks the radio component (the communications element transmitted through the air). At the same time, Siemens’s current financial situation is quite poor, and the company is closing facilities and projects. It is not clear whether it can spend $450 million on acquiring a company.

Nokia (NYSE, LSE, HEX: NOK), with which Alvarion has been negotiating an OEM agreement in mobile WiMAX for a long time, does not appear to be a likely candidate to acquire Alvarion, mostly because Nokia acquires very few companies. On the other hand, Nokia is entering the WiMAX market relatively late, so it cannot be altogether ruled out that it might want to acquire Alvarion. The chances, however, are not great.

The main consideration in favor of one of the major companies acquiring Alvarion is the latter’s leading technology, which has already proven itself in fixed WiMAX. Alvarion does not yet have a mobile WiMAX system (the standard has not yet been closed, and therefore none of the manufacturers has mobile WiMAX yet), but development is going ahead at full speed. Since Alvarion already has good technology for fixed WiMAX, market sources believe that it has an advantage over the others in developing a mobile WiMAX system.

It is very possible that some of the major communications equipment vendors that have not yet begun development will prefer acquiring a company with a solid technological basis to starting development of a system from scratch. It appears that the decisive question in this matter is how fast the equipment players can develop their own WiMAX system, and how much it will cost to do so, compared with the cost of acquiring Alvarion.

Alvarion's OEM Partnerships

Alvarion OEM Partner - Alcatel

Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. With sales of Euro 25 billion in 2001 and 99,000 employees, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. Alcatel utilizes Alvarion's BreezeACCESS 3.5 GHz products in its solution for wireless service providers. Under the private label Alcatel 7385 Wireless IP, Alcatel is able to provide turnkey wireless access solutions for its carrier class customers centered on Alvarion's products. For more information on Alcatel 7385 Wireless IP Solution, visit Alcatel BWA Solutions.

Alvarion OEM Partner - Lucent

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit http://www.lucent.com.

Alvarion OEM Partner - Datang Telecom

Datang Telecom is a leading Chinese telecommunication equipment manufacturer. With over 20 regional offices established throughout China, Datang develops and markets both mobile and radio telecommunication products. Established in 1993, Datang Telecom is traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 600198). Datang has marketed Alvarion's broadband wireless access products since 1999. For more information on Datang, visit http://www.datang.com.

Alvarion OEM Partner - Siemens

Siemens Information and Communication Networks (IC Networks) is a leading provider of network technology for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Its comprehensive portfolio provides complete solutions from a single source for the infrastructure of the Next Generation Network — optimized for a prompt return on investment and to open up new business opportunities for customers. In fiscal 2001 (year-end 30 September) IC Networks employed 51,000 people worldwide and posted sales of EUR 12.9 billion. Further information is available at: http://www.siemens.com.