Alvarion® Announces New Comprehensive Network Management Solution for Service Providers

 

TEL-AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR [1] - News [2]), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced the launch of Star Management Suite, a new comprehensive network management solution designed to manage complete WiMAX network infrastructure with the necessary level of control, and to enable operators to simplify management of innovative IP services such as VoIP and IPTV while enhancing quality of service in a centralized, integrated manner.

Star Management Suite is designed to deliver greater network control capabilities with a common feature set across the entire family of BreezeMAX solutions. This new carrier class management system provides critical capabilities essential for service provider network operations, including an effective fault management framework, a common set of network management applications including quality of service (QoS), and a common service assurance suite.

The Suite, compliant with WiMAX Forum standards, provides a comprehensive set of unified management capabilities to serve multiple types of network topologies with quick time to market introduction of new customer premise equipment (CPE) and IP based services. It is designed to support performance, scalability and security requirements for large networks through a distributed architecture and to consolidate network faults from various supported network elements. The management suite also enables a smooth integration of OSS and BSS elements in the network.

“Providing network management to WiMAX operators as part of an end-to-end offering all-in-one package such as Alvarion’s helps to ensure significant OPEX savings and a higher level quality of service to subscribers – a must in today’s competitive services market,” said Emmy Johnson, founder of Sky Light Research. “Alvarion is responding to operators’ need for greater control and anticipation of addressing QoS and quality of experience through a robust network management solution for troubleshooting, billing and traffic control.”

The Star Management Suite has been successfully trialed and used in multiple markets by operators around the world. This solution features tools that allow customers to monitor, visualize and troubleshoot complex WiMAX infrastructure, enabling them to enhance network reliability and performance. It also allows customers to prioritize network traffic and services to deliver critical data to the right people at the right time.

“We are enabling significant operational savings for our customers as they build and scale their WiMAX networks, and add new innovative IP services,” said Avinoam Barak, president of wireless network division of Alvarion. “The Star Management Suite provides a solid foundation for the management platform for service assurance capabilities that are essential to meeting service level agreements our customers are demanding today. This solution enhances our end-to-end turnkey WiMAX portfolio and allows our customers greater control over their network.”

The Star Management Suite includes multiple solutions for overall network management. AlvariSTAR is the network management system already deployed by operators globally. StarACS is a standard based platform capable of managing TR-69 based CPEs. StarQuality is a unique carrier-class performance monitoring system for monitoring WiMAX networks.

About Alvarion

Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR [3] - News [4]) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of business cases. Through its OPEN WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy end-to-end turnkey WiMAX projects, Alvarion is shaping the new wireless broadband experience (www.alvarion.com [5]).