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Alvarion Ltd. has announced that Enforta, the largest broadband wireless service provider in Russia, has selected its WiMAX solution for bringing WiMAX to the fast-growing Russian market. Enforta, using Alvarion’s platform, is among the first companies to commercially deploy WiMAX networks in Russia. Alvarion’s local partner in Russia is Cedicom.

In order to accelerate WiMAX penetration in the CIS, Alvarion is performing various adaptations to its WiMAX 802.16 platform according to market demands and CIS homologation requirements. Based on Alvarion’s all-IP operator-centric OPEN WiMAX strategy and technology expertise, Enforta will be offering a wide range of innovative, high-quality wireless broadband services throughout the entire region.

“The CIS is a fast-growing market and highly in favor of broadband wireless operators that base their business model on WiMAX,” said Lee Sparkman, president of Enforta. “Therefore, it is in our interest to cooperate with Alvarion, the WiMAX market leader, and offer our customers its field-proven WiMAX solution. As a company committed to expanding WiMAX services and offering extended coverage, we needed a feature-rich and stable solution. We believe that Alvarion’s award-winning platform is the best choice for this.”

“We are excited to help a fast-moving operator as Enforta bring WiMAX to Russia,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “The CIS market is of great importance to us, and leading the WiMAX market from the start enables us to build relationships with the CIS market key players. Cooperating with Enforta demonstrates again that Alvarion is innovative, flexible and fast moving by quickly adapting our solutions to customer-specific market needs. Taking advantage of this flexibility accelerates our penetration in the entire region. Enforta is in the midst of numerous deployments in multiple cities and we are happy to be there by their side, offering our mature WiMAX solution, experience, quality of service, and flexibility.”