“We are pleased to be able to bring the ‘4G’ services of WiMAX to the Fiji Islands,” said Mr. Jone Wesele, Commercial & Business Development Manager of FINTEL. “As a complement to our existing fiber and satellite networks, BreezeMAX has proven to be ideal for our island terrain. It's a robust, ruggedized system with exceptionally high performance for our non-line-of-sight environment and meets the demanding bandwidth and service requirements of our busy tourist industry."

BreezeMAX is Alvarion's award-winning, WiMAX Certified platform designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality.

“Bringing WiMAX to the Fiji Islands is very exciting, and we are thrilled to plan and deploy such a significant addition to FINTEL’s network capabilities," said Philip Martyn of Paclink. “We look forward to growing our relationship with Alvarion to offer more network solutions to FINTEL and other carriers in our region.”

BreezeMAX carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 200 installations in more than 80 countries around the world.

“We applaud FINTEL’s decision to strategically integrate the excellent business case of BreezeMAX to add broadband data services to its already existing network capabilities,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “As our deployments in Asia Pacific increase, we are pleased to see more and more carriers leverage our market-leading BreezeMAX in their island environments. In addition, WiMAX services will give the Fiji tourist industry a substantial boost with the corresponding economic benefits."

Source: Alvarion