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Alvarion (News - Alert) Ltd. is going to work with KDDI to help bridge the digital divide in Cambodia and Vietnam.

KDDI drives telecommunications and information and communications technology (ICT) services through its own specific activities, and also participates in the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT (News - Alert)) organization.

According to a press release, KDDI will be using Alvarion’s solutions in Vietnam and Cambodia to improve the existing broadband data services to residents, schools and municipalities. Alvarion will assist KDDI in its efforts to customize solutions that are optimized for local requirements. For example, KDDI uses Alvarion’s BreezeMAX in Vietnam, and its BreezeACCESS VL in Cambodia.

APT’s focus is on narrowing the digital divide and promoting advanced services including Internet access, E-learning, E-Government, E-Commerce, and more as part of the pan-Asia initiative.

“We are impressed with Alvarion’s qualifications, and after checking several top-tier vendors, we decided to use Alvarion’s solutions for our projects throughout Asia,” said Yuki Umezawa, senior manager, head of international cooperation section in KDDI, said in the release. “Alvarion answers to our high-standard requirements offering extensive field-experience and successful deployments across the globe. With products covering the full range of frequency bands, Alvarion has the optimal high-performance wireless broadband solutions and we look forward to additional projects with them throughout Asia.”

KDDI, the only Japanese information and communication company that comprehensively delivers all communications service, from fixed to mobile, is committed to the realization of the coming Ubiquitous Network Society through its ability to develop leading-edge fixed and mobile communications networks and services to support them and through its ability to carry out technical R&D at unprecedented levels.

Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (News - Alert) (APT) is a unique organization of Governments, telecom service providers, manufactures of communication equipment, research & development organizations and other stake holders active in the field of communication and information technology. The community is the focal organization for communication and information technology in the Asia Pacific region. Through its various programs and activities, APT has contributed significantly to the growth of the ICT sector especially the telecommunications sector in the Asia Pacific region (http://www.apt.int/).

Alvarion is a wireless broadband pioneer that has been driving and delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. As a member of the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and with its experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, Alvarion’s primary focus in the WiMAX (News - Alert) Forum is on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.

Alvarion has been leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry encompassing the complete range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Its products enable the delivery of personal mobile broadband, business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data.

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Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

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