Bridgewater Systems Continues Global WiMAX Momentum

New Customer Wins Through Successful Reseller Agreement With Alvarion

Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today announced that it is continuing to extend its global market leadership in WiMAX(TM) through its successful global reseller agreement with Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions.

News

-  Alvarion and Bridgewater are providing WiMAX solutions to several new
        customers in 2009 including four in Europe, one in Asia Pacific, and
        two in Latin America.

     -  Alvarion's 4Motion advanced network solution with the Bridgewater(R)
        Service Controller (AAA) or the new entry-level ServiceMAX 500
        system, both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM),
        delivers broadband Internet and voice services to subscribers and
        businesses.

     -  The Bridgewater solution enables WiMAX operators to:

        -  Rapidly deliver services by authorizing and authenticating
           subscribers, and performing critical accounting functions.

        -  Deliver innovative, personalized services to attract and retain
           subscribers including casual usage based on time or volume,
           pre-paid and post-paid services.

        -  Reduce operating costs by unifying subscriber data, and activating
           new subscribers and devices 'over-the-air.'

     -  There are over 470 WiMAX network deployments in 139 countries
        covering a population of at least 430 million people.(1)

Quotes

Avinoam Barak, President of wireless network division, Alvarion

"As part of Alvarion's Open WiMAX strategy, we continue to forge strategic product partnerships with leading companies such as Bridgewater to provide a complete end to end solution. Alvarion's mature, extensively deployed WiMAX solution, together with Bridgewater's service control and subscriber data management products provide a turnkey approach to delivering broadband services."

David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems

"Our successful global reseller agreement with Alvarion has enabled WiMAX operators to rapidly and cost effectively delivers broadband services to subscribers who are often not served by traditional wireline access. Over 25 operators are now using Bridgewater's market leading WiMAX solutions to easily activate services and devices 'over-the-air,' and deliver personalized services such as prepaid and casual usage options."

Tags/Keywords

Bridgewater Systems, Alvarion, WiMAX, 4Motion, Service Control, AAA, Subscriber Data Management, Subscriber Data Broker, Mobile Personalization

Links

http://www.alvarion.com/solutions/mobile/

http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/Service-Controller.aspx

http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/ServiceMAX-500.aspx

http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/Assets/Downloads/Whitepapers/WiMAXCommercialLaunch.pdf

About Alvarion

Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) 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 (http://www.alvarion.com).

About Bridgewater Systems

Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company, enables service providers to efficiently manage and profit from mobile data services, content and commerce. The company's market leading mobile personalization suite provides a real-time, unified view of subscribers including entitlements, devices, networks, billing profiles, preferences and context. Anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM), the portfolio of carrier-grade and standards-based products includes the Bridgewater(R) Service Controller (AAA) , the Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller (PCRF) and the Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server (HSS). More than 120 leading service providers including America Movil, Bell Canada, Clearwire, Hutchison Telecom, Iusacell, Scartel, SmarTone-Vodafone, Sprint, Tata Teleservices, Tatung, Telmex, Telstra, and Verizon Wireless use Bridgewater's solutions to rapidly deliver innovative mobile services to over 150 million subscribers. For more information, visit us at http://www.bridgewatersystems.com.

Bridgewater, Bridgewater Systems, the Bridgewater Systems logo, WideSpan , Smart Caps, and Subscriber Data Broker are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bridgewater Systems Corporation. All other company, product names and any registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned are used for identification purposes only and remain the exclusive property of their respective owners.

"WiMAX Forum" is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. "WiMAX," the WiMAX Forum logo, "WiMAX Forum Certified" and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum.

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(1) WiMAX Forum(R) Industry Research Report. Review of April, 2009

For further information: Contacts: Joanne Steinberg, Bridgewater Systems, joanne.steinberg@bridgewatersystems.com, +1-(613)-591-9104 extension 2032; Sam Harrisingh, MS&L EMEA, sam.harrisingh@mslworldwide.com, Tel: +44-(0)20-7878-3137/

For further information: Contacts: Joanne Steinberg, Bridgewater Systems,
joanne.steinberg@bridgewatersystems.com, +1-(613)-591-9104 extension 2032; Sam
Harrisingh, MS&L EMEA, sam.harrisingh@mslworldwide.com, Tel:
+44-(0)20-7878-3137

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