Alvarion Ltd. announced that uMAX completed the deployment of its wireless broadband network based on Alvarion's 4Motion(R) 802.16e solution throughout the capital city of Harare. Now serving a few thousand household residents and business users, and with growing brand recognition of its blue giraffe logo, uMax's network is Zimbabwe's first 4G network delivering high-speed wireless broadband services to households and small businesses in the 2.5 GHz frequency. The deployment is valued at over $1 million.

uMAX deployed Alvarion's 4Motion solution to deliver multiple services such as VoIP, video-streaming and high-speed Internet access. Alvarion's end-to-end wireless broadband solution-comprised of core networking, RAN and CPE portfolios, all managed by AlvariStar, Alvarion's network management system-is designed to supply customers with advanced broadband services at super-fast connections.