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Alvarion Ltd.and Accton Technology Corporation announced that they have formed Accton Wireless Broadband (AWB)—a new company based in Taiwan—to develop mass market WiMAX consumer electronic devices in order to complement Alvarion’s WiMAX offerings while facilitating the transition of WiMAX and personal broadband services to worldwide availability.

AWB will be an innovative, fast-moving organization designing and developing high-volume customer premises equipments (CPEs) and other end-user devices based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX specifications, or what is commonly referred to as mobile WiMAX. AWB will sell its devices to Alvarion to be part of its Open WiMAX solution 4Motion, which uses best-of-breed systems, as well as other broadband wireless systems and solutions to be delivered as part of their offerings to carriers, service providers, and end-users worldwide.

Mass-market consumer devices connecting to Open WiMAX networks will be the standard technology for business and personal users to access media centric Personal broadband telecommunications services including voice, video and data offerings. This cooperation augments Alvarion’s 4Motion Open WiMAX solution to include a wide variety of industry-standard, WiMAX enabled devices and customer-premise equipment while significantly enhancing the number and types of self-installable and outdoor WiMAX CPEs.

“This is a great opportunity to partner with one of the biggest broadband wireless companies in the world,” said A.J. Huang, CEO of Accton Group. “The combination of Alvarion’s market-leading core technology and long deployment history with Accton’s research and development capabilities in wireless OEM products will greatly accelerate the introduction of next-generation wireless broadband consumer products with advanced features. We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with Alvarion in creating AWB, and in driving it to being a leading company in WiMAX end user devices.”

“Alvarion’s core WiMAX expertise, experience and strong sales channels combined with Accton’s experience in consumer electronics, innovation, and creativity will propel AWB to becoming a world-class supplier of WiMAX devices and CPEs,” said Tzvika Friedman, chief executive officer of Alvarion. “In addition, AWB allows Alvarion to economically expand its leadership in WiMAX CPEs as it transitions to a mass market, offering a wider variety of innovative end user devices to our customers. It is a strategic element of our 4Motion Open WiMAX solution, as we continue to focus on building all the element of the 4Motion solution. ”